Emmett J. Scanlan

Scanlan was born on 31 January 1979, in Dublin. His family are natives of Clontarf, Dublin.^[2]

He played the lovable rogue and bad boy Brendan Brady in Hollyoaks from 2011 to 2013, for which he was nominated and won many soap awards.^[3] He appeared alongside Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan in the BBC Two drama The Fall (2013–2014).^[4]

From 2013–2016, he starred alongside Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders,^[4] Series 5 and Series 6,^[4] and worked alongside Craig Fairbrass, James Cosmo, Bruce Payne, Olivia Grant and Tamer Hassan in Breakdown (2016),.^[4]

Scanlan has acted in BBC Three's In The Flesh series 2, and Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).^[5] In 2021, he starred as Inspector Kieran Shaw in ITV's The Tower.^[6]

In 2022, Scanlan appeared as Marcus MacLeod in the British remake of Call My Agent!: Ten Percent.^[4] He played a main role as Jimmy Kinsella in the RTÉ family gangster drama Kin.^[4]

In 2024, he starred alongside Michelle Keegan and Adeel Akhtar in the Netflix series Fool Me Once (2024),^[4] and worked alongside Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, Tom Hardy, Paddy Considine and Joanne Froggatt, playing a heavy for the Harrigan family in the British Gangster series MobLand (2025).^[4]

Scanlan married girlfriend Claire Cooper on 31 December 2015 in New York City.^[7] In July 2020, she gave birth to a boy.^[8] In October 2020, Cooper disclosed that she had suffered a miscarriage of their baby the previous year. On 12 November 2022, Cooper gave birth to their daughter.^[9][10] Scanlan also has a daughter born in September 2002 from a previous relationship.

Scanlan is a vegan and supports PETA.^[11] He is a supporter of Manchester United.

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• (*) means there were two main rounds of nominations for that category. Shortlisted means he made it to the second and final round of voting.