Brendan Coyle
Actor/Actriz
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TV Shows
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.
As Actor/Actress
Testigo silencioso
Downton Abbey
John Bates
Waking the Dead
Martin Corgan
The Bill
Shameless
Father Polish
12 Monos
Benjamin Kalman
Prime Suspect
DCS Mitchell
Yo Antes de Ti
Bernard Clark
De Lark Rise a Candleford
Robert Timmins
Blue Murder
Derek Jowell
Dangerfield
007: El mañana nunca muere
HMS Bedford Leading Seaman
Downton Abbey: El gran final
John Bates
Downton Abbey: La película
John Bates
Ciudad tóxica
Roy Thomas
Requiem
Stephen Kendrick
North & South
Nicholas Higgins
Regresiones de un hombre muerto
Damon
The Commander
Downton Abbey: Una Nueva Era
John Bates
Spotless
Nelson Clay
Las dos reinas
Earl of Lennox
Riches
Gideon
The General
UVF Leader
Conspiración
Heinrich Müller
Jericho
Christie
Rebel Heart
Michael Collins
Saving Lives at Sea
Self - Narrator
The Ghost Squad
Rockface
Douglas McLanaghan