Richard Coyle

Richard Coyle is an English actor. He portrayed the lead role of Father Faustus Blackwood in Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and Jeff Murdock in the sitcom Coupling. Early and personal life Coyle was born in Sheffield, England. His father was a builder and he is the fourth of five sons. Coyle began his acting career after a stint working on a ferry entertaining passengers, where he was told by a theatre director that he had talent and should pursue it further. He 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. Coyle was married to actress Georgia Mackenzie but they divorced in 2010. From early 2011, he was in a relationship with actress Ruth Bradley, but by 2017 this had ended and he was seeing someone else. Film and television work He began by 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 chose not to return to Coupling for its fourth series, and refused requests to return for a "goodbye episode". In a 2005 interview, Coyle stated this was to avoid typecasting: