Richard Coyle Movies and Career Information

Richard Coyle (born 27 February 1972) is an English actor. Coyle was born in Sheffield, England to Irish parents. He began his acting career after a stint working on a ferry entertaining passengers, where he was told by a theatre director that he had a talent and should pursue it further. He graduated in Politics from the University of York in 1994 and was then accepted into Bristol's prestigious Old Vic Theatre school, graduating in 1998, the same year as his close friend Dean Lennox Kelly. He began appearing in such television programmes as Lorna Doone, as John Ridd and Evelyn Waugh's wartime saga Sword of Honour, and in Mike Leigh's film Topsy-Turvy. He played Mr. Coxe in 1999's BBC version of Wives and Daughters. In 2000, Coyle's big break arrived in the form of the character Jeff Murdock in the comedy Coupling. In 2003 he decided to leave Coupling to pursue other projects. According to an interview with the creator of Coupling, Steven Moffat, Coyle was invited to do a goodbye appearance on Coupling, but declined: "Richard didn’t want to return. Or do a goodbye episode." He also starred in the short-lived 2002-2003 BBC show Strange, and had roles in the films Human Traffic,