Richard Coyle

Actor o Loegr yw **Richard Coyle** (ganed 27 Chwefror 1972), a gaiff ei gam-gymryd yn aml am fod yn Gymro wedi iddo ddod i amlygrwydd yn chwarae Jeff yn y gyfres deledu Coupling.

## Bywyd cynnar
Ganed Coyle yn Sheffield, De Swydd Efrog, Lloegr. Coyle yw'r ail ifengaf o 5 o feibion, adeiladwr o Iwerddon oedd eu tad. a derbynwyd i ysgol theatr anrhydeddus Bryste, yr Old Vic Theatre Mewn cyfweliad yn 2005, Dywedodd Coyle yn 2005, ei fod wedi gwneud hyn er mwyn osgoi cael ei deipcastio.

He also starred in the short-lived 2002-2003 BBC show *Strange*, and had roles in the films *Human Traffic*, *Franklyn*, and  *A Good Year*. He appeared in the new special pennod of *Cracker: Nine Eleven* in October 2006 (TV) and starred in *The Whistleblowers* on ITV 1. He also starred in the 2001 version of *Othello* as Michael Cassio.

In 2004, Coyle played the role of Alcock, body servant to John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester,  in *The Libertine* alongside Johnny Depp. He appeared in Mike Newell's 2010 movie *Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time*, playing Jake Gyllenhaal's older brother, the ambiguous Crown Prince Tus.

He was cast as the lead role, Moist von Lipwig, in the film *Going Postal*, based on the book of the same name by Terry Pratchett. This was broadcast on television in May 2010.

Coyle had a leading role in Renny Harlin's movie *Georgia* renamed *5 Days of War*, about the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia over the territory of South Ossetia.

In September 2011, Coyle appeared as William Winthrop, in Madonna's feature-directorial debut *W.E.* about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The film premièred in London on the 11th of January 2012 to mixed reviews.

He appears as Garda Ciarán O'Shea in *Grabbers*, the Irish comedy monster movie which received rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival.

Coyle also plays Wallace in *Outpost Black Sun*, the sequel to the 2008 British horror film *Outpost* which as yet has no confirmed release date.

Richard Coyle's has most recently finished work on the English language remake of Nicolas Winding Refn’s 1996 cult classic *Pusher* where he plays the lead role of drug pusher Frank. The film is directed by Luis Prieto.

He is currently working in the United States on USA network hit show "Covert Affairs" playing an FSB spy being investigated by the CIA.

Richard will begin shooting movie rom-com "The Food Guide To Love" in August in Dublin, Ireland

## Llwyfan
He was cast as 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, and on the success of this he was cast in Patrick Marber's reworking of August Strindberg's play *After Miss Julie* with Kelly Reilly and Helen Baxendale. From September to November 2004, Coyle played the title role in Michael Grandage's production of Friedrich Schiller's *Don Carlos* which then transferred to the West End from January to April 2005. The cast also included Derek Jacobi, Peter Eyre and Una Stubbs. The V&A theatre archive has a copy of a film of the production which can be privately viewed.
He was in Peter Gill's production of John Osborne's *Look Back in Anger* at the Theatre Royal, Bath from August to September 2006. In 2008 Richard starred in Harold Pinter's *The Lover* and *The Collection* at the Comedy Theatre in London, alongside Charlie Cox and Gina McKee.

In 2010 he played John in Mark Haddon's play *Polar Bears* at the Donmar Warehouse. 

His own theatre company will debut at the refurbished Arcola Theatre in Dalston, London in March 2013. He will star alongside his friend and co-founder Rafe Spall in Simon Bent's play The Associate.

## Other media
Coyle played "Keats" in the game *Folklore* and has also narrated the following audio books: *At The Mountains of Madness* and *The Shadow Over Innsmouth* by H. P. Lovecraft, *Resistance* by Owen Sheers, and the *H.I.V.E.* series of novels by Mark Walden.

Richard has recently completed a 2500 mile motorcycle trip to Poland with his brothers which has been filmed for TV and will be produced as a documentary.

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