Richard Coyle

Richard Coyle

CountryUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
GenderMale
BirthdayFeb 27, 1972
BiographyRichard Coyle (born 6 February 1972) is an English film, television, and stage actor. He has also narrated numerous audiobooks.

Coyle 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.

On the stage, Coyle played the lead in Peter Gill's 2002 stage premiere of The York Realist, and later in the Donmar Warehouse production of the play Proof, in London, alongside Gwyneth Paltrow. He played the title role in Michael Grandage's production of Friedrich Schiller's Don Carlos In 2008 he starred in Harold Pinter's The Lover and The Collection at the Comedy Theatre in London. In 2010, he played John in Mark Haddon's play Polar Bears at the Donmar Warehouse, London. In 2014 he played MacDuff in the Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford directed Macbeth at the Park Avenue Armory, New York City. In 2022 Coyle, he starred in the role of Atticus Finch in the West End debut of Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of Harper Lee's American classic, To Kill a Mockingbird.

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