Richard Coyle

Stage roles 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, London.

In 2014 he played MacDuff in the Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford directed Macbeth at the Park Avenue Armory, New York City.

Coyle originated the role of Larry Lamb in James Graham's new play Ink which opened at the Almeida Theatre directed by Rupert Goold before transferring to the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End. Coyle stars alongside Bertie Carvel who plays Rupert Murdoch.

From 10 March until 19 November 2022 Coyle 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.

He played Henry in Player Kings on West End from 1 April to 22 June 2024.

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. He has also narrated the Discworld audiobooks Going Postal, Making Money, and Raising Steam, which feature the character Moist von Lipwig, for the Penguin series of re-recorded Discworld audiobooks released in February 2023.

Filmography Source:

Film Year Title Role Notes 1998 Macbeth Loon Television film 1998 John Parsons Cook Television film 1998 What Rats Won't Do Journalist 1999 Human Traffic Andy 1999 Topsy-Turvy Mr Hammond 2000 Hearts and Bones Will Stenner Television film 2000 Lorna Doone John Ridd Television film 2001 Sword of Honour Trimmer McTavish Television film 2001 Young Blades Count Morlas 2001 Happy Now? Joe Jones 2001 Othello Michael Cass Television film 2003 Blight John Blight Short film 2003 Friday Night In Ben Short film 2004 Gunpowder, Treason & Plot Catesby Television film 2004 Alcock 2006 Ultra Cryptic Man Television film 2006 Michael Sheldrake Television film 2006 Cracker D.I. Walters Television film 2006 Amis 2007 Jim Television film 2008 Franklyn Dan 2008 Blight John Blight 2008 Tony Kirby Short film 2009 Octavia Gareth Llewellyn Television film 2010 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Tus 2010 Terry Pratchett's Going Postal Moist Von Lipwig Television film 2011 5 Days of War Sebastian Ganz 2011 W.E. William 2012 Grabbers Garda Ciarán O'Shea 2012 Outpost: Black Sun Wallace 2012 Pusher Frank 2013 Oliver Byrne 2022 Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore Aberforth Dumbledore 2025 Heads of State Quincy Harrington

Television