CMNetwork Actors

Brendan Coyle

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. ​

  • Nacimiento: 1963-12-02, Corby, Northamptonshire, England, UK
  • Valoración en CMNetwork Actors: 3,6 de 5

En CMNetwork Actors

Conocido por

  • Antes de ti (2016) — Bernard Clark
  • Downton Abbey (2010) — John Bates
  • Downton Abbey (2019) — John Bates
  • María reina de Escocia (2018) — Earl of Lennox
  • The jacket (2005) — Damon
  • El enigma del cuervo (2012) — Reagan
  • El mañana nunca muere (1997) — HMS Bedford Leading Seaman
  • La solución final (2001) — Heinrich Müller

Filmografía

  • The Rising: 1916 — Augustine Birrell
  • Butterfly in the Typewriter — Milton Rickels
  • Code Zero — Phil Baynes
  • The One-Minute Problem (2026) — Wopsie
  • Downton Abbey: El gran final (2025) — John Bates
  • Ciudad tóxica (2025) — Roy Thomas
  • Finders Keepers (2024) — Denys Elland
  • Riches (2022) — Gideon
  • Downton Abbey: Una nueva era (2022) — John Bates
  • Downton Abbey (2019) — John Bates
  • María reina de Escocia (2018) — Earl of Lennox
  • Requiem (2018) — Stephen Kendrick
  • Unless (2016)
  • Antes de ti (2016) — Bernard Clark
  • A Merry Murdoch Christmas (2015) — Rankin
  • Spotless (2015) — Nelson Clay
  • 12 monos (2015) — Benjamin Kalman
  • La increíble historia de Christina Noble (2014) — Gerry Shaw
  • Starlings (2012)
  • El enigma del cuervo (2012) — Reagan
  • Downton Abbey (2010) — John Bates
  • La recompensa (2010) — Jerome
  • Lark Rise to Candleford (2008) — Robert Timmins
  • La marca de Caín (2007) — Davey Gulliver
  • True Dare Kiss (2007) — Kaz Sweeney
  • Damage (2007) — Aidan Cahill
  • Wedding Belles (2007) — Father Henry
  • Perfect Parents (2006) — Ed
  • Offside (2006) — Duncan Miller
  • Soundproof (2006) — DI Dave Cox
  • The Ghost Squad (2005)
  • Jericho (2005) — Christie
  • Omagh (2005) — Detective Sergeant John White
  • The jacket (2005) — Damon
  • Norte y Sur (2004) — Nicholas Higgins
  • Shameless (2004) — Father Polish
  • Single (2003) — Paul Barton
  • Blue Murder (2003) — Derek Jowell
  • The Commander (2003)
  • Rockface (2002) — Douglas McLanaghan
  • El cartógrafo (2001) — Robert Bates
  • Caso cerrado (2001) — Martin Corgan
  • McCready and Daughter (2001)
  • La solución final (2001) — Heinrich Müller
  • The Bombmaker (2001) — George McEvoy
  • Rebel Heart (2001) — Michael Collins
  • Paths to Freedom (2000)
  • I Could Read the Sky (1999) — Francie
  • Soft Sand, Blue Sea (1998) — Gerry
  • El general (1998) — UVF Leader
  • El mañana nunca muere (1997) — HMS Bedford Leading Seaman
  • The Last Bus Home (1997) — Steve Burkett
  • Testigo mudo (1996) — Liam Slattery
  • Dangerfield (1995)
  • The Glass Virgin (1995) — Manuel Mendoza
  • Fool's Gold: The Story Of The Brink's Mat Robbery (1992) — Det. Sgt. Benwell
  • Principal sospechoso (1991) — DCS Mitchell
  • He-Play (1990) — Mike
  • The Bill (1984)