Emmett Scanlan

Acting

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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Filmography

Acting

9 titles

In the Grey

Movie2026

A covert team of elite operatives are living in the shadows. When a ruthless despot steals a billion-dollar fortune, they're sent to take it back—an impossible heist that erupts into a deadly game of strategy, deception and survival.

A Working Man

Movie2025

Levon Cade left behind a decorated military career in the black ops to live a simple life working construction. But when his boss's daughter, who is like family to him, is taken by human traffickers, his search to bring her home uncovers a world of corruption far greater than he ever could have imagined.

MobLand

TV2025

Two mob families clash in a war that threatens to topple empires and lives.

Fool Me Once

TV2024

When ex-soldier Maya sees her murdered husband on a secret nanny cam, she uncovers a deadly conspiracy that stretches deep into the past.

Strangers

Movie2024

Seeking revenge on her abusive husband, a woman's life takes a dark turn when she meets a mysterious hitman. Drawn into a whirlwind romance, she spirals into a dangerous vigilante spree. As the body count rises, she begins to unravel the true nature of her partner and the secrets they both conceal.

Kin

TV2021

The lives of a Dublin family embroiled in a gangland war and the consequences of their choices.

Safe

TV2018

After his daughter goes missing, a widower begins uncovering the dark secrets of the people closest to him.

A.D. The Bible Continues

TV2015

"A.D. The Bible Continues" picks up where the smash hit miniseries "The Bible" left off, continuing the greatest story ever told and exploring the exciting and inspiring events that followed the Crucifixion of Christ. The immediate aftermath of Christ's death had a massive impact on his disciples, his mother, Mary, and key political and religious leaders of the era, completely altering the entire world in an instant. Beginning at that fateful moment of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, "A.D. The Bible Continues" will focus on the disciples who had to go forward and spread the teachings of Christ to a world dominated by political unrest, and the start of a whole new religion that would dramatically reshape the history of the world.

Guardians of the Galaxy

Movie2014

Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Ronan the Accuser.