Brendan Coyle
Brendan Coyle
Brendan Coyleis a British 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. The last role earned him a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and a BAFTA nomination for...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth2 December 1963
drama lying thinking
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.
meaningful
I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful.
dream jobs actors
I took a gamble in becoming an actor and my dream job has been realised.
meaningful long long-time
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 long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.
people photograph caps
You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.
country thinking rocks
I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the stand-up movement in this country is phenomenal. Its like rock n roll here. Britains a funny place and theres a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.
regret children thinking
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.
humorous actors casual
You cant be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.
ends finite shows
I can pretty much say all of us know when Downton is going to end. This is a show with a finite life.
father destruction difficulty
I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.
missing quality humour
The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.
lying thinking situation
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.
school thinking decision
I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.
butcher cooking dad enjoy left love master perhaps time trained
My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.