has 2 children.

Met his actress/wife Rya Kihlstedtin 1991 when both were working at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Best known as the hunky on- and off- lawyer and paramour to Ally McBeal in the late 1990s, he is probably best remembered in films for his smallish, breakthrough role as an ill-fated inmate in the film The Shawshank Redemption (1994). Bellows got the part after Brad Pitt passed on it to do the lead in Legends of the Fall (1994).

First met his Ally McBeal co-star Calista Flockhart when they were both theater actors in New York. He used to sit across from her at play readings.

Graduated from Point Grey Secondary School in Vancouver, BC, Canada

Attended American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Attended high school with Carrie-Anne Moss.

Daughter Ava Emanuelle born. [4 April 1999]

In The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Gil Bellows plays Tommy (short for Thomas) Williams. In the series "Ally McBeal" (1997), he plays a character called Billy (short for William) Thomas.

Is Canadian