# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brendan-coyle
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:42:44.138Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brendan-coyle"
name: "Brendan Coyle"
slug: "brendan-coyle"
description: "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."
tagline: "British and Irish actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brendan_Coyle%2C_June_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1963-12-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.99
  momentum:             0.5391249556964518
  historical:           17.763432
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0185354/"
    handle:    "nm0185354"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump