# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brendan-penny
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:19:33.756Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brendan-penny"
name: "Brendan Penny"
slug: "brendan-penny"
description: "Brendan James Penny is a Canadian film and television actor who first became well known to TV audiences as A.J. Varland in the first season of Whistler that aired in Canada from 2006 to 2008. He is perhaps best known as Detective Brian Lucas in Motive, a Canadian crime drama centred on a team of Vancouver homicide detectives, also starring Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira and Lauren Holly, which aired from 2013 to 2016. Brendan currently stars as Kevin O'Brien in the Hallmark Channel family drama series Chesapeake Shores, which premiered on August 14, 2016. He has also been the hero of a number of Hallmark originals."
tagline: "Actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brendan_Penny_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.23
  momentum:             18.57155247181266
  historical:           10.94833066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  218
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/BrendanJPenny"
    handle:    "BrendanJPenny"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1638242/"
    handle:    "nm1638242"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B8%83%E5%80%AB%E4%B8%B9%C2%B7%E4%BD%A9%E5%B0%BC"
    title: "布倫丹·佩尼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Brendan Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بريندان بيني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "بريندان بينى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Penny"
    title: "Brendan Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Penny"
    title: "Brendan Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Penny"
    title: "Brendan Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%BE%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "براندان پنی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Penny"
    title: "Brendan Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Penny"
    title: "Brendan Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B8%8C%EB%A0%8C%EB%8B%A8_%ED%8E%98%EB%8B%88"
    title: "브렌단 페니"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Penny"
    title: "Brendan Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12198264"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump