Brendan Coyle

Brendan Coyle

Known for: Acting
Biography: 1963-12-02 (61 years old)

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 older brother named Shaun Due to his British birth and Irish heritage, he holds both British and Irish citizenship. He is the great-nephew of football manager Sir Matt Busby. He studied drama in Dublin in 1981 and received a scholarship to Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London in 1983.


Coyle received a Laurence Olivier Award in 1999 for his performance in Conor McPherson's The Weir and won a New York Critics Theater World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut for the same play in its New York production. In 2001, Coyle appeared in the film Conspiracy as Gestapo Chief Heinrich Müller. He played Kaz Sweeney in the British drama True Dare Kiss, and Nicholas Higgins in North & South for the BBC.


From 2008 he played Robert Timmins in three BBC series based on the Lark Rise to Candleford novels, written by Flora Thompson. In 2010, he began playing John Bates, valet and former British Army batman to the Earl of Grantham in Julian Fellowes's period drama series, Downton Abbey. Fellowes wrote the part for Coyle, and it won him nominations for a BAFTA and IFTA as well as a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Awards as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2012. He also won three Screen Actors Guild Awards 2013–16. Coyle also played the character of Terry Starling in the short-lived Sky comedy series Starlings.



Filmography

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Movies 30

TV Shows 28

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Stephen Kendrick
Requiem

Requiem (2018)

TV
6.18
Aidan Cahill
Damage

Damage (2007)

Movie
Detective Sergeant John White
Omagh

Omagh (2005)

Movie
D.C. Ian Reid
Amnesia

Amnesia (2004)

TV
Heinrich Müller
Conspiracy

Conspiracy (2001)

Movie
Michael Collins
Rebel Heart

Rebel Heart (2001)

TV
Leading Seaman - HMS Bedford
Tomorrow Never Dies

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Movie
6.07
Miles Butler
Ailsa

Ailsa (1994)

Movie
Augustine Birrell
The Rising: 1916

The Rising: 1916

Movie
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Known For
Acting

Gender
Male

Birthday
1963-12-02 (61 years old)

Birth Place
Corby, United Kingdom

Relatives
Matt Busby

Citizenships
United Kingdom, Ireland

Also Known As
布蘭登·柯伊爾

Awards
Theatre World Award, Laurence Olivier Awards

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