# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-coyle
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:57:33.143Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-coyle"
name: "Richard Coyle"
slug: "richard-coyle"
description: "Richard Coyle is an English film, television, and stage actor. He has also narrated numerous audiobooks.\nCoyle got his big break on the television comedy Coupling, playing the role of Jeff Murdock. He played the lead role in the TV film Going Postal and in Renny Harlin's film 5 Days of War. In 2012, Coyle joined the cast of the show Covert Affairs as Simon Fischer, an FSB agent and love interest for Piper Perabo's Annie Walker. In 2018, Coyle was cast as Father Faustus Blackwood, a high priest of the Church of Night and Dean of the Academy of the Unseen Arts in the Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. He played the role of Aberforth Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore."
tagline: "English actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/pW7dJLmR3PuL4T1eVGa5iixPHGZ.jpg"
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: "1972-02-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.67
  momentum:             1.792979297929793
  historical:           18.27789066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0185404/"
    handle:    "nm0185404"
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    title: "Койл, Ричард"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump