Brendan Coyle

Brendan Coyle

Birthday: 1963-12-02

Place of birth: Corby, Northamptonshire, England, UK

Also known as: 布蘭登·柯伊爾

imdb_id: nm0185354

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. ​

Played in movies:

Me Before You

Score: 7.9

A Merry Murdoch Christmas

Score: 7.6

Conspiracy

Score: 7.3

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Score: 7.2

Downton Abbey

Score: 7.1

The Jacket

Score: 6.9

The General

Score: 6.7

Mary Queen of Scots

Score: 6.6

Noble

Score: 6.5

Tomorrow Never Dies

Score: 6.4

Omagh

Score: 6.3

The Raven

Score: 6.3

Soft Sand, Blue Sea

Score: 6.0

Perrier's Bounty

Score: 5.8

Wedding Belles

Score: 5.8

Perfect Parents

Score: 5.5

Offside

Score: 5.4

The Mark of Cain

Score: 5.4

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

Score: 5.0

Unless

Score: 4.8

I Could Read the Sky

Score: 4.2

Soundproof

Score: 4.0

Damage

Score: 1.0

The Last Bus Home

Score: 1.0

Mapmaker

Score: 0.0

Butterfly in the Typewriter

Score: 0.0

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Score: 0.0

The Rising: 1916

Score: 0.0

The Bombmaker

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Saving Lives at Sea

Score: 9.3

Lark Rise to Candleford

Score: 8.4

Downton Abbey

Score: 8.1

North & South

Score: 8.1

Prime Suspect

Score: 7.8

Silent Witness

Score: 7.6

Silent Witness

Score: 7.6

12 Monkeys

Score: 7.4

The Glass Virgin

Score: 7.3

Waking the Dead

Score: 7.2

Starlings

Score: 7.0

True Dare Kiss

Score: 7.0

Toxic Town

Score: 7.0

Spotless

Score: 6.9

Jericho

Score: 6.8

Paths to Freedom

Score: 6.7

Blue Murder

Score: 6.7

The Bill

Score: 6.6

The Commander

Score: 6.6

The Ghost Squad

Score: 6.4

Requiem

Score: 6.3

Riches

Score: 6.0

Dangerfield

Score: 6.0

Rebel Heart

Score: 6.0

Finders Keepers

Score: 5.8

McCready and Daughter

Score: 0.0

Rockface

Score: 0.0