Brendan Coyle

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1963-12-02 (62 years old)

Place of Birth

Corby, Northamptonshire, England, UK

Brendan Coyle

Biography

Brendan Coyle (born 2 December 1962) is a British-Irish actor. He won the Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role for The Weir in 1999. He also played Nicholas Higgins in the miniseries North & South, Robert Timmins in the first three series of Lark Rise to Candleford, and more recently Mr Bates, the valet, in Downton Abbey, which earned him a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Brendan Coyle was born David Coyle in Corby, Northamptonshire, on 2 December 1962, the son of a Patrick B Coyle and Bedelia M B Anderson. He has an ...

Acting

2001

The Bombmaker

as George McEvoy

2001

Conspiracy

as Heinrich Müller

2005

The Jacket

as Damon

2009

2007

The Mark of Cain

as Davey Gulliver

2022

2012

The Raven

as Reagan

2006

Offside

as Duncan Miller

2014

Noble

as Gerry Shaw

-

The Rising: 1916

as Augustine Birrell

2016

Me Before You

as Bernard Clark

2006

Soundproof

as DI Dave Cox

2007

Wedding Belles

as Father Henry

2016

2005

Omagh

as Detective Sergeant John White

1997

Tomorrow Never Dies

as HMS Bedford Leading Seaman

1999

2018

Mary Queen of Scots

as Earl of Lennox

1997

The Last Bus Home

as Steve Burkett

2019

Downton Abbey

as John Bates

1998

The General

as UVF Leader

-

2001

Mapmaker

as Robert Bates

2007

Damage

as Aidan Cahill

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