George Eads as Nick Stokes

George Coleman Eads was born on March 1, 1967 in Fort Worth, Texas. He spent his formative years in Belton, Texas and acquired his diploma from Belton High School. He pursued his tertiary education at Texas Tech University, where he joined the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and from where he graduated with a degree in marketing. With the aim of building his acting career, Eads relocated to Los Angeles on his stepfather’s truck, and made his big screen debut in the 1994 film Dust to Dust.

A year later, he began appearing on television, having first been cast in the role of J.R. Dean in the series, Strange Luck. He then appeared as Nick Corelli on the primetime drama Savannah, and despite his character’s death in the first episode, the viewers’ positive response to Eads compelled the producers to show him again through flashbacks, and to eventually introduce him as an identical twin. He used the money from his stint in Savannah to buy himself a new truck, as the headlights on his stepfather’s vehicle were broken. His subsequent television roles were on the shows ER and Grapevine and on made-for-tv movies such as The Ultimate Lie, Crowned and Dangerous, The Spring, Just a Walk in the Park, Second String, Monte Walsh and Evel Knievel.

In 2000, Eads started appearing in the CBS hit series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He is known popularly for his portrayal of CSI Nick Stokes, and out of all his co-stars, Eads admitted that he enjoyed working with Marg Helgenberger the most. Despite the success he gained from the show, Eads almost lost the role in 2004, when he and co-star Jorja Fox failed to arrive on set on time. As a result, they were fired from the show, but the conflicts were settled in just over a week.

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