Acting • AGE 62
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 miniserie...


The One-Minute Problem
Wopsie
2026

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
John Bates
2025

Toxic Town
Roy Thomas
2025

Finders Keepers
Denys Elland
2024

Riches
Gideon
2022

Downton Abbey: A New Era
John Bates
2022

Downton Abbey
John Bates
2019

Mary Queen of Scots
Earl of Lennox
2018

Requiem
Stephen Kendrick
2018

Unless
2016

Saving Lives at Sea
Self - Narrator
2016

Me Before You
Bernard Clark
2016

A Merry Murdoch Christmas
Rankin
2015

Spotless
Nelson Clay
2015

12 Monkeys
Benjamin Kalman
2015

Noble
Gerry Shaw
2014

Starlings
2012

The Raven
Reagan
2012

Downton Abbey
John Bates
2010

Perrier's Bounty
Jerome
2009

Lark Rise to Candleford
Robert Timmins
2008

The Mark of Cain
Davey Gulliver
2007

True Dare Kiss
Kaz Sweeney
2007

Damage
Aidan Cahill
2007

Wedding Belles
Father Henry
2007

Perfect Parents
Ed
2006

Offside
Duncan Miller
2006

Soundproof
DI Dave Cox
2006

The Ghost Squad
2005

Jericho
Christie
2005

Omagh
Detective Sergeant John White
2005

The Jacket
Damon
2005

North & South
Nicholas Higgins
2004

Shameless
Father Polish
2004

Blue Murder
Derek Jowell
2003

The Commander
2003

Rockface
Douglas McLanaghan
2002

Mapmaker
Robert Bates
2001

Waking the Dead
Martin Corgan
2001

Conspiracy
Heinrich Müller
2001

Rebel Heart
Michael Collins
2001

Paths to Freedom
2000

McCready and Daughter
2000

I Could Read the Sky
Francie
1999

Soft Sand, Blue Sea
Gerry
1998

The General
UVF Leader
1998

Tomorrow Never Dies
HMS Bedford Leading Seaman
1997

The Last Bus Home
Steve Burkett
1997

Silent Witness
1996

Dangerfield
1995

The Glass Virgin
Manuel Mendoza
1995

Fool's Gold: The Story Of The Brink's Mat Robbery
Det. Sgt. Benwell
1992

Prime Suspect
DCS Mitchell
1991

The Bill
1984

Butterfly in the Typewriter
Milton Rickels