25 Facts About Richard Coyle

Richard Coyle was born on 6 February 1972 and is an English actor.

Richard Coyle portrayed the lead role of Father Faustus Blackwood in the Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and Jeff Murdock in the sitcom Coupling.

Richard Coyle's father was a builder and he is the fourth of five sons.

Richard Coyle graduated in Languages and Philosophy from the University of York in 1995 and was then accepted into the prestigious Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 1998, the same year as his close friends Dean Lennox Kelly and Oded Fehr.

Richard Coyle was married to actress Georgia Mackenzie but they divorced in 2010.

Richard Coyle began by appearing in such television programmes as Lorna Doone, John Ridd and Evelyn Waugh's wartime saga Sword of Honour, and in Mike Leigh's film Topsy-Turvy.

Richard Coyle played Mr Coxe in 1999's BBC version of Wives and Daughters.

Richard Coyle appeared in the new special episode of Cracker: Nine Eleven in October 2006 and starred in The Whistleblowers on ITV.

Richard Coyle starred in the 2001 version of Othello as Michael Cassio.

In 2004, Richard Coyle played the role of Alcock, body servant to John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, in The Libertine alongside Johnny Depp.

Richard Coyle appeared in Mike Newell's 2010 film Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, playing Jake Gyllenhaal's older brother, the ambiguous Crown Prince Tus.

Richard Coyle 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.

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

Richard Coyle appeared as Garda Ciaran O'Shea in Grabbers, the Irish comedy monster film.

Richard Coyle plays Wallace in Outpost: Black Sun, the sequel to the 2008 British horror film Outpost, and the lead of drug pusher Frank in the 2012 English-language remake of Nicolas Winding Refn's 1996 cult classic Pusher.

In 2012, Richard Coyle joined the cast of the USA Network show Covert Affairs as Simon Fischer, an FSB agent and love interest for Piper Perabo's Annie Walker.

In 2018, Richard Coyle was cast as Father Faustus Blackwood, a high priest of the Church of Night and Dean of the Academy of the Unseen Arts in the Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.

In January 2021, Richard Coyle announced via Instagram that he had been cast in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, scheduled to be released in 2022 but said he could not disclose whom he was playing.

Richard Coyle 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, Richard 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.

Richard Coyle 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 Coyle starred in Harold Pinter's The Lover and The Collection at the Comedy Theatre in London, alongside Charlie Cox and Gina McKee.

Richard 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.

From 10 March until 19 November 2022 Richard 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.

Richard Coyle has 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.