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....
Known For
Complete Filmography
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
2025
as John Bates
When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the entire household grapples with the threat of soc...
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022
as John Bates
The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Meanwhile, a...
Downton Abbey
2019
as John Bates
The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England w...
Mary Queen of Scots
2018
as Earl of Lennox
In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ru...
Unless
2016
A writer struggles with her daughter's decision to drop out of college and live on the streets.
Me Before You
2016
as Bernard Clark
A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his ...
A Merry Murdoch Christmas
2015
as Rankin
While investigating the murder of a rich benefactor and the theft of children's presents at a Christmas charity pageant, Murdoch discovers suggestions...
Noble
2014
as Gerry Shaw
Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.
The Raven
2012
as Reagan
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in t...
Perrier's Bounty
2009
as Jerome
A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies.
The Mark of Cain
2007
as Davey Gulliver
After a bomb kills their company commander in Iraq, British soldiers Treacle and Shane are ordered to round up suspects and use torture on the detaine...
Damage
2007
as Aidan Cahill
Set in affluent, contemporary, south-side Dublin, the Cahills appear to have the world at their feet. Dad Aidan, is a successful property tycoon, his ...
Wedding Belles
2007
as Father Henry
A darkly humorous look at the lives and loves of four modern women, each with their own remarkable, intriguing and often tragic stories.
Perfect Parents
2006
as Ed
After a violent incident in Lucy's public school, her atheist parents Stuart and Alison decide to find her a safe 'traditional' school. The only one t...
Offside
2006
as Duncan Miller
In the sleepy town of Stensfors, the soccer team used to be something to be proud of , playing in the national league 30 years ago. Now the team will ...
Soundproof
2006
as DI Dave Cox
About the relationship between Dean, a young deaf man who is accused of murdering his flatmate, and Penny, the sign language interpreter assigned to h...
Omagh
2005
as Detective Sergeant John White
The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relativ...
The Jacket
2005
as Damon
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he ...
Mapmaker
2001
as Robert Bates
Hired to draw a map of tourist sites in a small Northern Ireland town, cartographer Richie Markey (Brian F. O'Byrne) uncovers a dark secret and realiz...
Conspiracy
2001
as Heinrich Müller
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish...
The Bombmaker
2001
as George McEvoy
Expert IRA bomb-maker turned police informant Andrea Hayes retires and starts a new life after four school-children are killed by one of her bombs. Te...
I Could Read the Sky
1999
as Francie
The film concerns an old Irish immigrant living in London who is looking back over his life. He recalls his early life in the west of Ireland, his fir...
Soft Sand, Blue Sea
1998
as Gerry
13 year-old David and nine year-old Danni live in a children's home, where despite the best of adult intentions, there is conflict and sudden tragedy....
The General
1998
as UVF Leader
The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwant...
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
as HMS Bedford Leading Seaman
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mas...
The Last Bus Home
1997
as Steve Burkett
Though it is late in the punk rock movement, four Dublin youths get together in 1979 to form their own band. Accurately recounting the energy and rawn...
Fool's Gold: The Story Of The Brink's Mat Robbery
1992
as Det. Sgt. Benwell
A dramatized speculation of what happened in November 1983 when Micky McAvoy and some of his mates planned a heist and were surprised when they discov...
The Rising: 1916
N/A
as Augustine Birrell
In the early 20th Century, a handsome young man leaves a small family farm and becomes the mastermind of a rebellion that changed Ireland forever. Fol...
Butterfly in the Typewriter
N/A
as Milton Rickels
Troubled author John Kennedy Toole's struggle to bring A Confederacy of Dunces to print.