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Brendan Coyle

1963-12-02 Corby, Northamptonshire, England, UK

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Biografia

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. ​

Películas

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale John Bates 2025-09-10
Downton Abbey: A New Era John Bates 2022-04-27
Downton Abbey John Bates 2019-09-12
Mary Queen of Scots Earl of Lennox 2018-12-07
Me Before You Bernard Clark 2016-06-01
Unless 2016-10-14
A Merry Murdoch Christmas Rankin 2015-12-21
Noble Gerry Shaw 2014-09-19
The Raven Reagan 2012-03-09
Perrier's Bounty Jerome 2009-09-11
Damage Aidan Cahill 2007-06-24
Wedding Belles Father Henry 2007-03-29
The Mark of Cain Davey Gulliver 2007-10-18
Soundproof DI Dave Cox 2006-07-12
Offside Duncan Miller 2006-08-18
Perfect Parents Ed 2006-12-28
Omagh Detective Sergeant John White 2005-03-23
The Jacket Damon 2005-03-04
Conspiracy Heinrich Müller 2001-05-19
The Bombmaker George McEvoy 2001-04-08
Mapmaker Robert Bates 2001-12-01
I Could Read the Sky Francie 1999-09-03
Soft Sand, Blue Sea Gerry 1998-05-25
The General UVF Leader 1998-05-01
The Last Bus Home Steve Burkett 1997-10-17
Tomorrow Never Dies HMS Bedford Leading Seaman 1997-12-11
Fool's Gold: The Story Of The Brink's Mat Robbery Det. Sgt. Benwell 1992-11-14
The Rising: 1916 Augustine Birrell
Butterfly in the Typewriter Milton Rickels