Brendan Coyle
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 2, 1963 (age 62)
- Birthplace
- Corby, Northamptonshire, England, UK
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.
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Filmography
The Rising: 1916
Movie · as Augustine Birrell
Butterfly in the Typewriter
Movie · as Milton Rickels
Code Zero
TV · as Phil Baynes · 1 ep
The One-Minute Problem
Movie · as Wopsie
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
Movie · as John Bates
Toxic Town
TV · as Roy Thomas · 4 eps
MobLand
TV · as Tosh Wick · 1 ep
Finders Keepers
TV · as Denys Elland · 4 eps
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Movie · as John Bates
Riches
TV · as Gideon · 6 eps
Downton Abbey
Movie · as John Bates
Mary Queen of Scots
Movie · as Earl of Lennox
Requiem
TV · as Stephen Kendrick · 6 eps
Me Before You
Movie · as Bernard Clark
Unless
Movie
Saving Lives at Sea
TV · as Self - Narrator · 4 eps
A Merry Murdoch Christmas
Movie · as Rankin
Spotless
TV · as Nelson Clay · 10 eps
12 Monkeys
TV · as Benjamin Kalman · 1 ep
Noble
Movie · as Gerry Shaw
The Raven
Movie · as Reagan
Starlings
TV · 16 eps
Perrier's Bounty
Movie · as Jerome
Downton Abbey
TV · as John Bates · 47 eps
Lark Rise to Candleford
TV · as Robert Timmins · 40 eps
The Mark of Cain
Movie · as Davey Gulliver
Wedding Belles
Movie · as Father Henry
Damage
Movie · as Aidan Cahill
True Dare Kiss
TV · as Kaz Sweeney · 6 eps
Offside
Movie · as Duncan Miller
Perfect Parents
Movie · as Ed
Soundproof
Movie · as DI Dave Cox
The Jacket
Movie · as Damon
Omagh
Movie · as Detective Sergeant John White
The Ghost Squad
TV · 1 ep
Jericho
TV · as Christie · 4 eps
North & South
TV · as Nicholas Higgins · 4 eps
Shameless
TV · as Father Polish · 1 ep
The Commander
TV · 2 eps
Blue Murder
TV · as Derek Jowell · 2 eps
Single
TV · as Paul Barton · 6 eps
Rockface
TV · as Douglas McLanaghan · 14 eps
The Bombmaker
Movie · as George McEvoy
Conspiracy
Movie · as Heinrich Müller
Mapmaker
Movie · as Robert Bates
Waking the Dead
TV · as Martin Corgan · 2 eps
Rebel Heart
TV · as Michael Collins · 4 eps
McCready and Daughter
TV · 6 eps
Paths to Freedom
TV · 6 eps
I Could Read the Sky
Movie · as Francie
Soft Sand, Blue Sea
Movie · as Gerry
The General
Movie · as UVF Leader
Tomorrow Never Dies
Movie · as HMS Bedford Leading Seaman
The Last Bus Home
Movie · as Steve Burkett
Silent Witness
TV · as Liam Slattery · 1 ep
Dangerfield
TV · 1 ep
The Glass Virgin
TV · as Manuel Mendoza · 3 eps
Fool's Gold: The Story Of The Brink's Mat Robbery
Movie · as Det. Sgt. Benwell
Prime Suspect
TV · as DCS Mitchell · 2 eps
He-Play
TV · as Mike · 1 ep
The Bill
TV · 1 ep