Shawn Doyle

Acting

Shawn Doyle

Born 1968-09-19 · Wabush, Newfoundland, Canada

Shawn Doyle (born 1968) is a Canadian actor. Doyle was born and raised in Wabush, Newfoundland, the son of actor Jerry Doyle. He moved to Toronto to study theatre at York University. He has won three awards for his critically acclaimed performance as Dennis Langley in The Eleventh Hour. Since moving to Los Angeles, he has also starred in the American shows 24 as Ronnie Lobell, Desperate Housewives as Mr. Hartley and as Joey Henrickson in Big Love. He has also made several film appearances; as Jack Shepard in Frequency and as Brian in 1998's Babyface and as Stephen in 2005 film Sabah, A Love Story. His TV movie roles include John in the film adaptation of The Robber Bride and a lawyer in Lost. He had a recurring role as "Joey Henrickson" a former NFL player and brother of Bill Henrickson, the main character in the HBO series Big Love and currently stars as agoraphobic chess genius Arkady Balagan in the Showcase original series Endgame. He is married to actress Allegra Fulton and together they have one son Description above from the Wikipedia article Shawn Doyle, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

The Long Kiss Goodnight poster
6.6

Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers she used to be a deadly CIA assassin. Teaming up with a wisecracking private investigator, Samantha must return to her old ways to take down the people who tried to erase her.

The Long Kiss Goodnight

1996

Frequency poster
7.3

When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal murders he and his father must find a way to fix the consequences of altering time.

Frequency

2000

Whiteout poster
5.6

The only U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, Carrie Stetko will soon leave the harsh environment behind for good – in three days, the sun will set and the Amundsen-Scott Research Station will shut down for the long winter. When a body is discovered out on the open ice, Carrie's investigation into the continent's first homicide plunges her deep into a mystery that may cost her her own life.

Whiteout

2009

Don't Say a Word poster
6.3

When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he is horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a young woman, suffering from PTSD, who knows a secret six digit code number.

Don't Say a Word

2001

The Majestic poster
6.8

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

The Majestic

2001

Darkman III: Die Darkman Die poster
5.3

Darkman, needing money to continue his experiments on synthetic skin, steals a crate of cash from drug lord Peter Rooker...

Darkman III: Die Darkman Die

1996

Knockaround Guys poster
6.1

Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.

Knockaround Guys

2001

Youngblood poster
6.9

Hockey prodigy Dean Youngblood joins the Hamilton Mustangs and has to deal with toxic behavior during his journey to the National Hockey League draft.

Youngblood

2026

Who Killed Atlanta's Children? poster
5.6

From 1979 to 1981, 29 African-American males, mostly children, were either missing or found murdered in metro Atlanta. The cases plagued the city until 1982, when Wayne Wiiliams was convicted of the murders of two adult men. Authorities then considered the other cases closed. Some of the parents of the slain children were critical of the way the cases were handled and believed there was some sort of cover up. Nearly four years after the conviction of Williams, "Spin" magazine editor Ron Larson and reporter Pat Laughlin come to Atlanta in search of the truth.

Who Killed Atlanta's Children?

2000

Just Visiting poster
NR

A Canadian family visiting the United States finds themselves in a situation that threatens to ruin them. Attitudes about race, class, and country are suddenly instrumental in negotiating an agreement with the gravest of stakes.

Just Visiting

2006

Lizzie Borden Took an Ax poster
5.8

Lizzie Borden Took An Ax chronicles the scandal and enduring mystery surrounding Lizzie Borden, who was tried in 1892 for axing her parents to death. As the case rages on, the courtroom proceedings fuel an enormous amount of sensationalized stories and headlines in newspapers throughout the country, forever leaving Lizzie Borden’s name in infamy.

Lizzie Borden Took an Ax

2014

Who Is Cletis Tout? poster
5.9

With a hitman’s gun aimed at him, Finch tells the story of how he broke out of jail, fell in love, and took the identity of a man wanted by the Mafia.

Who Is Cletis Tout?

2001

The Disappeared poster
5.5

Six men. Two dories. The fight of their lives. Starring Billy Campbell, Shawn Doyle, Brian Downey. Directed by Shandi Mitchell. Filmed in Nova Scotia.

The Disappeared

2012

Nika & Madison poster
NR

Fearing they won't be believed, two young Indigenous women go on the run after one's defense of the other results in a violent attack against a police officer.

Nika & Madison

2026

The Memory Keeper poster
NR

In a dystopian future where all of humanity's memories have become government-regulated transactional products, mankind's crown-jewel memory is stolen - the answer to where we come from.

The Memory Keeper

2025

The Returned poster
6.0

In a post-zombie world, where the infected live normal lives, their retroviral drug is running out.

The Returned

2013

The Ashgrove Experiment poster
10.0

An indie film crew throw caution to the wind when they attempt to shoot a completely improvised drama where the film's big twist is being kept secret from their lead actress, while also navigating on-set mishaps, bizarre twists of fate, and the first year of a global pandemic.

The Ashgrove Experiment

2024

The Voices of Our Mother poster
6.4

When a family matriarch falls seriously ill, relatives gather and discover their shared ancestral ties bind them in unexpected ways.

The Voices of Our Mother

2026

No artwork available
8.0

Jean Corolère and Françoise Laurent were prisoners in New France. They escaped the death penalty as Corolère accepted the executioner's job and married Laurent.

The Hangman's Bride

1997

Babyface poster
4.0

A 13 year old with an over-sexed mother starts an affair with her mother's live-in boy friend.

Babyface

1998

Giant Mine poster
9.0

CBC's dramatic account of the tragedy of Yellowknife's Giant Mine, in which 9 miners were killed during a bitter labour dispute.

Giant Mine

1996

The Bookie & the Bruiser poster
NR

In 1959 New York, a pensive Jewish fellow named Rivner befriends an oversized Italian-American tough named Boscolo from the Lower East Side. Both men served overseas during WWII and returned changed, no longer fitting inside the lives they'd left behind. Uninterested in taking orders from bosses or playing by the rules of polite society, the two friends partner up as a bookmaker and an enforcer and create an illicit gambling operation that proves to be very profitable, though risky, and their situation gets rather sticky when they find themselves stuck between a powerful Irish gang and the Mafia.

The Bookie & the Bruiser

Peacekeepers poster
9.0

A Canadian Army unit with the United Nations peacekeeping force in the former Yugoslavia is tasked with keeping the peace in a dangerous Croatian town named Krasna.

Peacekeepers

1997

Mount Pleasant poster
6.7

Three couples find their destinies irrevocably intertwined in a fusion of obsession and fragile love when a six-year-old girl finds a junkie's discarded needle while playing in her backyard.

Mount Pleasant

2006

Behind the camera