Richard Coyle
Born	27 February 1972 (1972-02-27) (age 36) Sheffield, England
Years active	1991- present
Spouse(s)	Georgia Mackenzie

Richard Coyle (b. 27 February 1972 in Sheffield, England) is an English actor. He began his acting career when, studying politics at the University of York (1991-1994), he became interested in amateur dramatics. If you hold the copyright to an image (e. ... is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Sheffield (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Sheffield (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Actor (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Politics (disambiguation). ... This article is about the British university. ... For other uses, see Drama (disambiguation). ...

He was accepted into the prestigious Old Vic Theatre school and graduated in 1998, the same year as Dean Lennox Kelly. He didn't have to wait long for work, and began appearing in such television programmes as Hetty Wainthropp Investigates as Dr. Miles Millar, and Lorna Doone, as John Ridd (a role that Laurence Olivier was famous for playing). In 2000, Coyle's big break arrived in the form of the socially inept Jeff Murdock in the hit comedy Coupling. Coyle's portrayal of the madcap Jeff won the hearts of many viewers, but in 2003 he decided to leave Coupling in favour of pursuing other projects on stage and on the big screen. He starred in short lived 2002-2003 BBC show Strange. The Old Vic is a theatre in the Waterloo area of London. ... Actor Dean Lennox Kelly is best known for his role as Kev in Channel 4’s Shameless. ... Hetty Wainthropp Investigates is a semi-humorous English crime drama television series which aired from 1996 to 1998 on the BBC. The series starred Patricia Routledge as the title character, Derek Benfield as her patient husband Robert, and Dominic Monaghan as their boarder (and her assistant) Geoffrey Shawcross. ... Cover of an illustrated 1893 edition of Lorna Doone Jan Ridd learns to fire his fathers gun - from an 1893 illustrated edition Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor, is a novel by Richard Doddridge Blackmore. ... Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM, (IPA: ; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. ... Jeff Murdock is a character in the Coupling TV Series, played by Richard Coyle in the first three series, and appearing in the fourth season only in a dream sequence. ... Coupling is a British television sitcom written by Steven Moffat that aired on BBC2 from May 2000 to 2004 . ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... Strange is a British television drama series, produced by the independent production company Big Bear Productions for the BBC, which aired on the BBC One channel. ...

He was then cast 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. He played the role of Alcock in The Libertine starring Johnny Depp. Coyle also played minor roles in the films Human Traffic and A Good Year. The Donmar Warehouse is a small theatre in the Covent Garden area of the West End of London. ... Proof is a play by David Auburn which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2001 Tony Award for Best Play. ... Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972[1]) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. ... Patrick Marber (born 19 September 1964) is an English playwright, director, actor and Academy Award nominated screenwriter. ...   (January 22, 1849 â€“ May 14, 1912) was a Swedish writer, playwright, and painter. ... After Miss Julie relocates August Strindbergs Miss Julie (1888) to an English country house in July 1945. ... Kelly Reilly Kelly Reilly (born 1977) is a British actress who, in 2004, became the youngest ever best actress nominee at the Olivier Awards. ... Helen Baxendale (born 1969 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England) is a British TV, film and stage actress. ... Michael Grandage is a British theatre director who is currently Artistic Director at the Donmar Warehouse in London, England. ... Friedrich Schiller “Schiller” redirects here. ... This article refers to the opera Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi (and its revised Italian version, known as Don Carlo). ... Sir Derek George Jacobi, CBE (IPA: ) (born 22 October 1938) is an English actor and director, knighted in 1994 for his services to the theatre. ... Peter Eyre is a American actor, born in 11 March 1942, New York, New York. ... Una Stubbs (born 1 May 1937 in Leicester) is an English actress and former dancer. ... The Libertine is a movie that was released in the United Kingdom on November 25, 2005, and on March 10, 2006 in the United States. ... John Christopher Depp II[1] (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, best known for his frequent portrayals of offbeat and eccentric characters such as Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy and the titular character of Tim Burtons Edward Scissorhands. ... Human Traffic is a 1999 film directed and written by Justin Kerrigan. ... A Good Year is a 2006 romantic comedy film set in Provence, in southeastern France. ...

He was in Peter Gill's production of John Osbourne's Look Back in Anger at the Theatre Royal, Bath from August to September 2006 and appeared in the new special episode of Cracker: Nine Eleven in October 2006 (TV). He co-starred in "The Whistleblowers" on ITV 1. Peter Gill (born March 8, 1964, Liverpool, England), known by the nickname Pedro or Ped, was the drummer with 1980s pop band Frankie Goes To Hollywood (FGTH). ... John James Osborne (December 12, 1929 – December 24, 1994) was a English playwright, the first of the Angry Young Men of the 1950s. ... Look Back in Anger (1956) is a John Osborne play and 1958 movie about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man (Jimmy Porter), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife (Alison), and her snooty best friend (Helena Charles). ... The Theatre Royal in Bath has been established for over 200 years and is one of the more important provincial (ie not in London) theatres in the UK, with a capacity for an audience of 950. ... Cracker is the title of a television crime series in the United Kingdom, made by Granada Television for ITV and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern. ...

Richard is currently starring in Harold Pinter's The Lover and The Collection at the Comedy Theatre in London. Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (born 10 October 1930) is an English playwright, screenwriter, poet, actor, director, author, and political activist. ... There are three characters in The Lover, and Pinter slyly leads us to believe they are the wife, the husband and the lover. ... The play is a four-hander showing two couples, James and Stella and Harry and Bill. ... The Royal Comedy Theatre, as it was then known, opened in Londons West End on October 15, 1881. ...

External links

• Richard Coyle at the Internet Movie Database