Kyle Secor

Kyle Secor is an American actor who became known for playing Detective Tim Bayliss on the crime drama Homicide: Life on the Street from 1993 to 1999. Born in Tacoma, Washington, he grew up in Federal Way and moved to Los Angeles after community college, where he performed in plays at the Santa Monica Playhouse and Pasadena Playhouse. His early television roles included Santa Barbara and St. Elsewhere. He appeared in films such as City Slickers (1991), Sleeping with the Enemy (1991), and Untamed Heart (1993). After Homicide, he acted in Beat (2000) and took a short-lived part on Party of Five. He returned to television in City of Angels, Bailey's Mistake, and Philly. Later roles included Veronica Mars, Commander in Chief, Women's Murder Club, and The Flash. He also appeared in the film The Purge: Election Year (2016) and the television film A Wrinkle in Time (2003). In 2021 he published a book about acting and nonduality.