Richard Coyle
ATTICUS FINCH

Richard Coyle’s dynamic body of work spans film, television and theatre. Last year, Richard starred on stage in the West End, leading Rob Icke’s Player Kings alongside Sir Ian McKellen. He can currently be seen in the action comedy feature film Heads of State with Idris Elba, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and John Cena. He recently filmed The Constable, a WWII historical thriller, starring opposite Clive Owen and directed by Oscar winner Stefan Ruzowitzky, and has just completed principal photography on BBC One’s The Other Bennet Sister period drama, with Richard E Grant, Ruth Jones and Indira Varma. Richard joined the Wizarding World franchise portraying Aberforth Dumbledore, the brother of Jude Law’s Albus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. His film work also includes W.E. directed by Madonna, Nicolas Winding Refn’s British remake of Pusher and Mike Newell’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton. Additional film work includes Ridley Scott’s A Good Year with Russell Crowe, The Libertine alongside Johnny Depp, Mike Leigh’s Oscar-nominated Topsy-Turvy, Renny Harlin’s 5 Days of War with Val Kilmer and Andy Garcia, Franco Zeffirelli’s Jane Eyre and the independent cult favourites Grabbers, Franklyn and Human Traffic.

On television, Richard is widely known for his role as Father Blackwood in Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, starring alongside Kiernan Shipka. He first gained attention as one of the leads of the breakout BBC comedy Coupling, playing the hapless Jeff, and later led ITV flagship drama Whistleblowers. His other notable television work includes Lorna Donne, Strange, Sword of Honour alongside Daniel Craig, Life of Crime opposite Hayley Atwell, Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal, BBC’s The Fall, C4’s The Gathering and Born to Kill, USA Network’s Covert Affairs and leading NBC’s Crossbones playing opposite John Malkovich and Claire Foy as well as Amazon’s couture drama The Collection.

A seasoned stage performer, Richard recently led the West End cast of To Kill a Mockingbird as Atticus Finch, directed by Bartlett Sher. He played Macduff in Macbeth opposite Kenneth Branagh in New York, and originated the role of Larry Lamb in James Graham’s Ink, directed by Rupert Goold, first at the Almeida Theatre, then in its West End transfer to the Duke of York’s Theatre. He was voted Best Supporting Actor by the public at the Theatregoers’ Choice Awards for Peter Gill’s The York Realist at the Royal Court and in the West End. Additional theatre work includes starring opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in the UK premiere of Proof at the Donmar Warehouse, for which theatre he also starred in After Miss Julie with Kelly Reilly and Polar Bears with Celia Imrie. He played the title character in the thriller Don Carlos in the West End, Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger at the Theatre Royal Bath and The Lover/The Collection directed by Jamie Lloyd for the Harold Pinter Theatre.