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