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Brendan Coyle
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Brendan Coyle
Homepage
https://www.independenttalent.com/actors/brendan-coyle/
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1963-12-02,Corby, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Gender
Male
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

9

The Bombmaker
2001-04-08

7.292

Conspiracy
2001-05-19

6.863

The Jacket
2005-03-04

Perrier's Bounty

5.777

Perrier's Bounty
2010-03-18

The Mark of Cain

5.203

The Mark of Cain
2007-10-18

Downton Abbey: A New Era

7.2

Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022-04-27

6.303

The Raven
2012-03-09

5.348

Offside
2006-08-18

6.384

Noble
2014-09-19

Fool's Gold: The Story Of The Brink's Mat Robbery

7

Fool's Gold: The Story Of The Brink's Mat Robbery
1992-11-14

The Rising: 1916

0

The Rising: 1916

Perfect Parents

4.6

Perfect Parents
2006-12-28

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

7.06

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
2025-09-10

7.931

Me Before You
2016-06-01

3.25

Soundproof
2006-07-12

6.182

Wedding Belles
2007-03-29

4.8

Unless
2016-10-14

6.635

Omagh
2005-03-23

Tomorrow Never Dies

6.389

Tomorrow Never Dies
1997-12-11

I Could Read the Sky

4.591

I Could Read the Sky
1999-09-03

Mary Queen of Scots

6.543

Mary Queen of Scots
2018-12-07

The Last Bus Home

3

The Last Bus Home
1997-10-17

Soft Sand, Blue Sea

6

Soft Sand, Blue Sea
1998-05-25

7.152

Downton Abbey
2019-09-12

6.716

The General
1998-05-01

Butterfly in the Typewriter

0

Butterfly in the Typewriter

9

Mapmaker
2001-12-01

1

Damage
2007-06-24

A Merry Murdoch Christmas

7.6

A Merry Murdoch Christmas
2015-12-21

The One-Minute Problem

0

The One-Minute Problem
2026-03-08

6.755

The Bill
1984-10-16

7.6

Silent Witness
1996-02-21

The Ghost Squad

5.75

The Ghost Squad
2005-11-15

Waking the Dead

7.217

Waking the Dead
2001-06-18

7

True Dare Kiss
2007-06-28

6.429

The Commander
2003-02-16

Lark Rise to Candleford

8.4

Lark Rise to Candleford
2008-01-13

Paths to Freedom

7.5

Paths to Freedom
2000-11-01

8.1

North & South
2004-11-14

7.333

Rebel Heart
2001-01-07

McCready and Daughter

0

McCready and Daughter
2001-06-15

7

Dangerfield
1995-01-27

7

Starlings
2012-05-13

8.1

Downton Abbey
2010-09-26

7.333

Jericho
2005-10-16

6.635

Spotless
2015-03-16

Saving Lives at Sea

9.3

Saving Lives at Sea
2016-07-13

6.733

Blue Murder
2003-05-18

7.432

12 Monkeys
2015-01-16

7.067

Toxic Town
2025-02-27

6.226

Requiem
2018-02-02

7.835

Prime Suspect
1991-04-07

The Glass Virgin

7.5

The Glass Virgin
1995-01-06

Finders Keepers

5.8

Finders Keepers
2024-01-17

5.8

Riches
2022-12-22

7.6

Silent Witness
1996-02-21

7.522

Shameless
2004-01-13

0

Rockface
2002-03-13

0

Single
2003-10-25

0

He-Play
1990-08-08