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 recen ... tly 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.
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Downton Abbey
as John Bates
Episodes: 47
First Aired: Sep 26, 2010
Lark Rise to Candleford
as Robert Timmins
Episodes: 40
First Aired: Jan 13, 2008
Spotless
as Nelson Clay
Episodes: 10
First Aired: Mar 16, 2015
True Dare Kiss
as Kaz Sweeney
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Jun 28, 2007
Requiem
as Stephen Kendrick
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Feb 02, 2018
Riches
as Gideon
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Dec 22, 2022
North & South
as Nicholas Higgins
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Nov 14, 2004
Rebel Heart
as Michael Collins
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Jan 07, 2001
Jericho
as Christie
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Oct 16, 2005
Finders Keepers
as Denys Elland
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Jan 17, 2024
The Glass Virgin
as Manuel Mendoza
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Jan 06, 1995
Waking the Dead
as Martin Corgan
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jun 18, 2001
Blue Murder
as Derek Jowell
Episodes: 2
First Aired: May 18, 2003
12 Monkeys
as Benjamin Kalman
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 16, 2015
Prime Suspect
as DCS Mitchell
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 07, 1991
Silent Witness
as Liam Slattery
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 21, 1996
Starlings
Episodes: 16
First Aired: May 13, 2012
Rockface
Episodes: 14
First Aired: Mar 13, 2002
Paths to Freedom
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Nov 01, 2000
McCready and Daughter
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Jun 15, 2000
Saving Lives at Sea
as Self - Narrator
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Jul 13, 2016
Toxic Town
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Feb 27, 2025
The Commander
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Feb 16, 2003
The Bill
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 16, 1984
Silent Witness
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 21, 1996
The Ghost Squad
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Nov 15, 2005
Dangerfield
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 27, 1995
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