Emmett Scanlan

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Jan 31, 1979 (46 years old)

Emmett Scanlan

Known For

A Working Man
1h 56m
Movie 2025

A Working Man

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.

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Fool Me Once
TV Show 2024

Fool Me Once

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

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The Teacher
TV Show 2022

The Teacher

A thriller anthology series detailing the separate stories of two teachers, Jenna and Dani. Jenna, a popular teacher with a chaotic private life, is accused of sleeping with her 15-year-old pupil Kyle after a night out celebrating a promotion. Dani, a dedicated art teacher, quickly becomes entangled in a web of desire and deceit - with her own marriage at the centre of it.

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The Tower
TV Show 2021

The Tower

A veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing. Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths.

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Kin
TV Show 2021

Kin

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

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A.D. The Bible Continues
TV Show 2015

A.D. The Bible Continues

"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.

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Guardians of the Galaxy
2h 1m
Movie 2014

Guardians of the Galaxy

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.

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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.