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.

2 December 1963

Born on the same birth date (2 December 1963): Ann Patchett • Rich Sutter • Ron Sutter

Born on the same birth day (2 December): Charles H. Wesley • Dan Jenkins • De'Andre Hunter • Edwin Meese • Elias Lindholm • Elizabeth Berg (author) • George Minot • Ibrahim Rugova • Paul Watson • Ralph Beard • Ray Morehart • Rewi Alley

Born in the same month (December 1963): Claudia Kohde-Kilsch • Giuseppe Bergomi • Greg D'Angelo • Johnny Rogers • Mike Pompeo • Milan Šrejber • Nigel Heslop • Ulf Kristersson