Emmett Scanlan
Biography
Emmett J. Scanlan is an Irish actor from Dublin. He is best known for playing the villain Brendan Brady in Hollyoaks. He is currently filming BBC2 drama The Fall in 2013-2014 and hitman movie Breakdown in which he appears alongside Craig Fairbrass, James Cosmo, Bruce Payne, Olivia Grant and Tamer Hassan. Scanlan recently finished filming BBC3 In The Flesh Series 2, and Guardians of the Galaxy.
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Acting History
2026
In the Grey
2025MobLand as Paul
2025A Working Man as Viper
2024Strangers as Tony
2024Rob Beckett's Smart TV as Self
2024Argylle as Handsome Man
2024Fool Me Once as Shane Tessier
2022The Teacher as Tim Oxley
2021Lapwing as David
2021The Tower as DI Kieran Shaw
2021Kin as Jimmy Kinsella
2021Here Are the Young Men as Homeless Man
2020The Deceived as Michael
2020Gangs of London as Jack O'Doherty
2020The Jester from Transylvania as Michael Cunningham
2019Treadstone as Spencer
2018Butterfly as Stephen Duffy
2018Women on the Verge as Kieran
2018Safe as Josh Mason
2018Krypton as Lobo
2018Derry Girls as Madstab
2017My Daughter Is Missing as Alek
2016The Green Rabbit & The Ice Cream Girl as Gerry
2016Breakdown as Connor Moran
2016Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands as Skellan
2015A.D. The Bible Continues as Saul
2014Constantine as Jim Corrigan
2014Blood as Guy
2014Guardians of the Galaxy as Head Riot Guard
2013Peaky Blinders as Billy Grade
2013The Fall as Glenn Martin
2013The Fall as Glen Martin
2013In the Flesh as Simon Monroe
2012The Inside as Hughie
2010Charlie Casanova as Charlie Casanova
2010Lapse as Guy
2009Savage as Jacko
2009Once Upon a Time in Dublin as Jonnie Linski
2008Colour from the Dark as Luigi
2008Christian Blake as Floyd
2007Shattered as Matt Connolly
2006Mebollix
2006Studs as Jake
—A Woman of Substance as Adam Fairley