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Brendan Coyle

(1963) Stage Actor Ireland

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Brendan Coyle is a stage actor from Ireland, best known for Enemy Offshore!.

Quick Facts About Brendan Coyle

Born: December 2, 1963
Nationality: Ireland
Profession: Stage Actor
Notable works: Enemy Offshore!

About Brendan Coyle

Brendan Coyle 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.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Laurence Olivier Awards Theatre World Award

Quotes by Brendan Coyle

I took a gamble in becoming an actor and my dream job has been realised.

Actor

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I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful.

Looking

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The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.

Am

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I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the stand-up movement in this…

Bbc

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If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would…

Become

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You cant be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the…

Actor

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By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't…

About

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I would have loved to have been a footballer like my great uncle Matt Busby, but I knew quite early on that…

Accept

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You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.

Cap

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I'm going to be 50 soon. I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful. By the time you've been single for quite a…

About

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I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

Great

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I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to…

Applies

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Sometimes I think I missed out on things like travelling. I'd have been terrified of missing an audition. I didn't start a…

Acting

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I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I…

Books

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It's not something that's at the forefront of my mind, but I think I'd regret it if I didn't have children.

Children

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I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

Bankruptcy

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I had to escape the destruction of my father's bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

Bankruptcy

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Acting meant so much to me.

Acting

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Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding…

Britain

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I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

Applies

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Am I a household name? I still can't get my head around that.

Am

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When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time.…

About

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I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for…

Act

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My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at…

Been

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I can pretty much say all of us know when 'Downton' is going to end. This is a show with a finite…

End

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