Biography
Emmett J. 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. In total, there are 50 recognized credits in film and television. On Cinestia you c…
Career works
50
Movies
23
Series
27
Career average
6.3/10
Birth date
01/31/1979
Place of birth
Dublin, Ireland
Filmography highlights
Movies
In the Grey
2026 · 7.6
A Working Man
2025 · 6.7
The Jester from Transylvania
2024
Strangers
2024 · 5.8
Argylle
2024 · 6.0
Lapwing
2021 · 6.4
Here Are the Young Men
2021 · 5.4
My Daughter Is Missing
2017 · 5.8
The Green Rabbit & The Ice Cream Girl
2016
Breakdown
2016 · 5.0
Blood
2014 · 1.0
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014 · 7.9
The Inside
2012 · 3.5
Charlie Casanova
2010 · 4.2
Lapse
2010 · 2.7
Series
A Woman of Substance
2026 · 7.9
How to Get to Heaven from Belfast
2026 · 7.0
MobLand
2025 · 8.3
Rob Beckett's Smart TV
2024 · 5.4
Fool Me Once
2024 · 7.1
The Teacher
2022 · 6.1
The Tower
2021 · 6.8
Blankety Blank
2021 · 7.0
Kin
2021 · 7.7
The Deceived
2020 · 5.1
Gangs of London
2020 · 7.8
Treadstone
2019 · 7.1
Butterfly
2018 · 6.1
Women on the Verge
2018 · 6.2
Safe
2018 · 6.9