Brendan Coyle

Brendan Coyle (lahir 2 Desember 1962) adalah aktor Inggris-Irlandia. Dia memenangkan Penghargaan Olivier untuk Penampilan Terbaik dalam Peran Pendukung untuk The Weir pada tahun 1999. Dia juga memerankan Nicholas Higgins di miniseri Utara & Selatan, Robert Timmins dalam tiga seri pertama Lark Rise to Candleford, dan baru-baru ini Tuan Bates, pelayan, di Downton Abbey, yang membuatnya mendapatkan nominasi Penghargaan Primetime Emmy untuk Aktor Pendukung Luar Biasa dalam Serial Drama dan nominasi BAFTA untuk Aktor Pendukung Terbaik. Brendan Coyle lahir David Coyle di Corby, Northamptonshire, pada tanggal 2 Desember 1962, putra dari Patrick B Coyle dan Bedelia M B Anderson. Dia memiliki kakak laki-laki bernama Shaun Karena kelahirannya di Inggris dan keturunan Irlandia, dia memiliki kewarganegaraan Inggris dan Irlandia. Dia adalah keponakan dari manajer sepak bola Sir Matt Busby. Ia belajar drama di Dublin pada tahun 1981 dan menerima beasiswa ke Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts di London pada tahun 1983. Coyle menerima Penghargaan Laurence Olivier pada tahun 1999 untuk penampilannya dalam The Weir karya Conor McPherson dan memenangkan Penghargaan Dunia Teater Kritikus New York untuk Debut Broadway yang Luar Biasa untuk drama yang sama dalam produksinya di New York. Pada tahun 2001, Coyle muncul dalam film Conspiracy sebagai Kepala Gestapo Heinrich Müller. Dia memerankan Kaz Sweeney dalam drama Inggris True Dare Kiss, dan Nicholas Higgins di Utara & Selatan untuk BBC. Sejak tahun 2008 ia memerankan Robert Timmins dalam tiga serial BBC berdasarkan novel Lark Rise to Candleford, yang ditulis oleh Flora Thompson. Pada tahun 2010, ia mulai memerankan John Bates, pelayan dan mantan batman Angkatan Darat Inggris hingga Earl of Grantham dalam serial drama periode Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey. Fellowes menulis peran untuk Coyle, dan dia memenangkan nominasi BAFTA dan IFTA serta nominasi Primetime Emmy Awards sebagai Aktor Pendukung Luar Biasa dalam Serial Drama pada tahun 2012. Dia juga memenangkan tiga Screen Actors Guild Awards 2013–16. Coyle juga memainkan karakter Terry Starling dalam serial komedi Sky Starlings yang berumur pendek. ​

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. ​