Richard Coyle’s dynamic body of work spans film, television, and theatre.  

Last year, Richard led Rob Icke’s Player Kings as King Henry IV alongside Sir Ian McKellen’s Falstaff at the Noel Coward Theatre in the West End. He can currently be seen in the action comedy feature film Heads of State, with Idris Elba, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and John Cena, on Amazon Prime. More recently, he filmed The Constable, a WWII historical thriller, starring with Clive Owen and directed by Oscar winner Stefan Ruzowitzky, and he is currently completing principal photography on BBC1’s period drama The Other Bennet Sister, with Richard E Grant, Ruth Jones and Indira Varma. 

Richard joined the Wizarding World franchise portraying Aberforth Dumbledore, 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. 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, Human Traffic and Franklyn  

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 the BBC’s Lorna Doone and The Fall, occult drama Strange, C4’s The Gathering and Born to Kill, Sword of Honour, Life of Crime, Hard Sun, Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal, Wives and Daughters, The Six Four, USA Network’s Covert Affairs, NBC Universal’s pirate epic Crossbones with John Malkovich, and Amazon’s couture drama The Collection. 

A seasoned stage performer, Richard led the West End cast of To Kill a Mockingbird as ‘Atticus Finch’ at The Gielgud, 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, for the Almeida Theatre, and its West End transfer to the Duke of York’s. 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 and Polar Bears. He played the title character in Michael Grandage’s Don Carlos for the Sheffield Crucible and the Gielgud, ‘Jimmy Porter’ in Look Back in Anger at the Theatre Royal Bath, and worked with Harold Pinter on The Lover and The Collection, directed by Jamie Lloyd for the Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End.