Shawn Doyle

Acting

Shawn Doyle

Born

1968-09-19 (58)

Place of birth

Wabush, Newfoundland, Canada

Known for

Acting

Credits

84 titles

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 Lo…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

2010s · 10 titles

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

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

American Woman poster
4.9

A political activist helps take care of a group of America’s most wanted fugitives, including a well-known, recently radicalized heiress.

American Woman

2019

Grown Up Movie Star poster
5.1

The story of Ruby, 13, determined to grow up fast after her mother runs away to become a movie star, leaving Ruby with her hopelessly rural father.

Grown Up Movie Star

2010

Hunting Season poster
5.0

Samantha visits an old family house and comes face-to-face with a buried and potentially fatal past.

Hunting Season

2013

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

No artwork available
6.5

A riveting political thriller starring Shawn Doyle (John A. Macdonald), Peter Outerbridge (George Brown) and David LaHaye (George-Etienne Cartier) and set during the struggles that take Canada from colony to country.

John A.: Birth of a Country

2011

Away from Everywhere poster
3.2

A struggling writer emerges from rehab and reunites with his estranged brother, but soon descends into a tragic love triangle and is forced to confront a devastating reality.

Away from Everywhere

2017

No artwork available
NR

Officer Daniel O'Shea must go to extraordinary lengths to get a confession.

Method

2013

Some Saturdays poster
NR

Hank and his wife, Jules, both in their 40s, set out for a leisurely summer boat ride. As they drift out into the harbor, we quickly realize that things between them are not as peaceful as we've been led to believe.

Some Saturdays

2018

2000s · 16 titles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eight Days to Live poster
5.9

A mother searches for her lost son, who after four days still has not returned from a party at a friend's house a day's drive away.

Eight Days to Live

2006

Do or Die poster
4.7

A virus causes people to age rapidly. There is an antidote, but it has to be taken daily and is under control of a single company. A woman who is not infected carries an infected child, and seeks for it to be cured. This quest leads her to the blue lands, where most of the infected live.

Do or Die

2003

The Robber Bride poster
4.8

Journalist Zenia Arden has disappeared. When her finger turns up on the shores of Lake Ontario next to her blood-soaked car, the police believe they've uncovered a homicide.

The Robber Bride

2007

Stiletto Dance poster
4.9

Two undercover police officers must try to prevent a multi-million dollar nuclear arms deal among several mob factions.

Stiletto Dance

2001

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

Verdict in Blood poster
7.5

When a female judge is found murdered in her home, television reporter and amateur detective Joanne Kilbourn finds herself neck-deep in a homicide investigation. Her only two clues are twin wills left by the victim -- one donating everything to the woman's daughters, another donating everything to a boarding house for former criminals.

Verdict in Blood

2002

Sabah poster
5.9

One day, when Sabah least expects it, she falls in love with the wrong man. She's Muslim, he's not. Unbeknownst to her family, she goes on a whirlwind affair before both culture and love collide.

Sabah

2005

A Killing Spring poster
7.3

When Reed Gallagher, dean of Journalism at Lanholme College, is found dead of asphyxiation in an apparent attempt at autoerotic suffocation, Joanne Kilbourn is pulled into the murky world of kinky sex, academic competitiveness and ruthless ambition.

A Killing Spring

2002

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

1990s · 8 titles

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

Darkman III: Die Darkman Die poster
5.2

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

Papertrail poster
4.8

Jason Enola is an obsessive FBI agent who is almost losing his mind after ten years on the tail of an elusive serial killer whose hallmark is the "paper trail" of notes left along with the victims. As the film begins, a new wave of killings start after four years of silence, and the psychiatrist Dr. Alyce Robertson becomes involved when she starts receiving telephone calls from the killer.

Papertrail

1998

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

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

Sleeping Dogs Lie poster
6.5

In 1919 theatre owner Ambrose Small sold his business and vanished. but who , if anyone, was responsible for his disappearance?

Sleeping Dogs Lie

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

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

Undated · 2 titles

Series credits

Reacher poster
8.1

Jack Reacher, a veteran military police investigator, has just recently entered civilian life. Reacher is a drifter, carrying no phone and the barest of essentials as he travels the country and explores the nation he once served.

Reacher

2022

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation poster
7.6

A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

2000

24 poster
7.8

Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.

24

2001

Desperate Housewives poster
7.9

Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V.

Desperate Housewives

2004

Lost poster
8.0

Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.

Lost

2004

Below poster
7.3

When a mysterious sea creature terrorizes a small Newfoundland town, a hard-bitten fisherman and his family fight to protect their close-knit community.

Below

2026

Fargo poster
8.3

A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

Fargo

2014

The Expanse poster
8.1

A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.

The Expanse

2015

Star Trek: Discovery poster
6.9

Follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.

Star Trek: Discovery

2017

Medium poster
7.5

Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to help to solve crimes. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people.

Medium

2005

Billions poster
7.8

Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power and influence to outmaneuver the other. The stakes are in the billions in this timely, provocative series.

Billions

2016

House of Cards poster
8.0

Betrayed by the White House, Congressman Frank Underwood embarks on a ruthless rise to power. Blackmail, seduction and ambition are his weapons.

House of Cards

2013

Numb3rs poster
7.0

Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very different perspective.

Numb3rs

2005

Lie to Me poster
7.9

The world's leading deception researcher, Dr. Cal Lightman, studies facial expression, body language and tone of voice to determine when a person is lying and why, which helps law enforcement and government agencies uncover the truth. But his skills also make it easier for him to deceive others.

Lie to Me

2009

Big Love poster
6.9

The story of Bill Henrickson and his life in suburban Salt Lake City, balancing the needs of his three wives -- Barb, Nicki and Margene-- their seven kids, three new houses and the opening of his newest hardware store. When disturbing news arrives about Bill's father, he is forced to reconnect with his polygamist parents who live on a fundamentalist compound in rural Utah.

Big Love

2006

Earth: Final Conflict poster
6.8

Years ago, the Taelons came to Earth, offering friendship and technology to humanity. But there are those who believe the Taelons have more sinister motives.

Earth: Final Conflict

1997

Lost Girl poster
7.7

The gorgeous and charismatic Bo is a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan and its rigid hierarchy, Bo is a renegade who takes up the fight for the underdog while searching for the truth about her own mysterious origins.

Lost Girl

2010

Due South poster
7.6

Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes.

Due South

1994

Rookie Blue poster
7.7

Ambitious young cops try to prove themselves in their high-stakes careers, in which the smallest mistake can have deadly consequences. At the core of the close-knit group is perfectionist Andy McNally, whose father was a homicide detective before he burned out on the job. The series follows Andy and her four colleagues -- Dov Epstein, Gail Peck, Traci Nash and Chris Diaz -- as they experience the trials, triumphs and tribulations of police work, as well as its effect on their personal lives.

Rookie Blue

2010

Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal poster
6.9

Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal is a Canadian science fiction television series that surrounds a scientific team that deals with all manner of paranormal phenomena around the world; from alien abductions to possessions. The organization depicted in the series is loosely inspired by a real-life scientific organization. While locations in the series took place worldwide, the series was primarily filmed in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and aired 88 episodes over four seasons from 1996 to 2000.

Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal

1996

Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent poster
7.5

An elite squad of detectives investigate high-profile crime and corruption in metro Toronto.

Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent

2024

Reign poster
8.1

Mary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court.

Reign

2013

The Listener poster
6.9

Toby Logan is a highly skilled paramedic with a secret – he can read minds. Toby never really knew his parents and grew up in foster care, this coupled with his secret, which he shares with no one, has made him a bit of a loner. Until now, Toby has kept his ability hidden, exploring its possibilities only with his long time mentor and confidante Dr. Ray Mercer.

The Listener

2009

Covert Affairs poster
6.9

A young CIA operative, Annie Walker, is mysteriously summoned to headquarters for duty as a field operative. While Annie believes she's been promoted for her exceptional linguistic skills, there may be something or someone from her past that her CIA bosses are really after. Auggie Anderson is a CIA military intelligence agent who was blinded while on assignment and is Annie's guide in this world of bureaucracy, excitement and intrigue.

Covert Affairs

2010

Flashpoint poster
7.3

The Strategic Response Unit (SRU) is an elite team of cops who specialize in high-risk critical incidents. Trained in tactics and psychology, they deal with extreme situations, where split-second decisions could save a life...or cost one.

Flashpoint

2008

Republic of Doyle poster
7.0

Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Doyles don't always land on the right side of the law.

Republic of Doyle

2010

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues poster
6.7

Like his legendary namesake, Kwai Chang Caine is a warrior monk, operating a Shaolin temple in Northern California. After an evil priest, Tan, destroys the temple, Caine and his young son, Peter each believe the other has perished. The two embark on very different paths -- Caine wanders the Earth, while Peter is a cop. When fate brings the two together, they work to overcome their differing philosophies to battle Tan, and then to help the innocent and bring justice to the new Wild West -- 90s urban America.

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues

1993

Accused poster
6.9

In this crime anthology series, viewers discover how an ordinary person got caught up in an extraordinary situation, ultimately revealing how one wrong turn leads to another, until it’s too late to turn back. Told from the defendant’s point of view, each episode opens in a courtroom on the accused without knowing their crime or how they ended up on trial.

Accused

2023

Ransom poster
6.6

Eric Beaumont's crisis negotiator team is brought in to save lives and resolve the most difficult kidnap and ransom cases when no one else can.

Ransom

2017

Impulse poster
7.6

16-year-old Henry Coles is an outsider in her new town of Reston, New York. With a major chip on her shoulder and no friends, she remains withdrawn and isolated, but everything changes when a traumatic encounter with a classmate triggers something deep within Henry— unleashing a power she cannot control.

Impulse

2018

Frontier poster
6.8

In 18th-century North America, ruthless trappers and entrepreneurs fight to wrest control of the fur trade from the mighty Hudson's Bay Company.

Frontier

2016

Dark Blue poster
6.9

Wandering in and out of he underbelly of Los Angeles, where criminals roam free under the veil of night or hide in the shadows of day, is routine for Lieutenant Carter Shaw and his special undercover task force. This team understands that to bring down a criminal, one must first get on their level.

Dark Blue

2009

Blind Justice poster
6.1

Blind Justice is an American television series created by Steven Bochco about a blind New York City police detective. It was introduced mid-season in March 8, 2005 to fill the time slot left by Bochco's highly successful NYPD Blue, which had just aired its final episode after a 12-year run. The show ran for only one season, with 13 episodes broadcast.

Blind Justice

2005

Storm of the Century poster
7.0

When a blizzard hits an isolated island town it brings with it a mysterious stranger intent on terrorizing the people for a sinister purpose.

Storm of the Century

1999

Vegas poster
6.9

Ralph Lamb wants to be left in peace to run his ranch, but Las Vegas is now swelling with outsiders and corruption which are intruding on his simple life. Recalling Lamb's command as a military police officer during World War II, the Mayor appeals to his sense of duty to look into a murder of a casino worker – and so begins Lamb’s clash with Vincent Savino, a ruthless Chicago gangster who plans to make Vegas his own.

Vegas

2012

Clarice poster
6.9

In 1993, six months after the events of The Silence of the Lambs, FBI Agent Clarice Starling returns to the field to pursue serial murderers and sexual predators while navigating the high stakes political world of Washington, D.C.

Clarice

2021

King & Maxwell poster
6.9

Sean King and Michelle Maxwell aren't your typical pair of private investigators. As discredited Secret Service agents, their unique skills often give them a leg up on suspects and conventional law enforcement. He's charming and always one step ahead of the game; she's a fearless force to be reckoned with. As a team, they're unstoppable.

King & Maxwell

2013

Terriers poster
8.0

Ex-cop and recovering alcoholic Hank Dolworth partners with his best friend, former criminal Britt Pollack, in an unlicensed private investigation business. The series is set in Ocean Beach, San Diego, California, although it is portrayed as a distinct town, with Dolworth having once been a member of the fictional Ocean Beach Police Department.

Terriers

2010

The Eleventh Hour poster
5.3

The Eleventh Hour is a Canadian television drama series which aired weekly on CTV from 2002 to 2005. The show revolves around the reporters and producers at a fictional television newsmagazine series, The Eleventh Hour. Unhappy with the newsmagazine's shrinking audience, the network has brought in a new executive producer, Kennedy Marsh, to reorient the show in a more ratings-driven tabloid journalism direction. The tension between the ratings imperative and the more traditional journalistic ethics of the show's senior staff is the primary conflict that drives the show, but storylines also include the team's efforts to get the stories that will make it to air each week. The Eleventh Hour was produced by Alliance Atlantis, Canada's largest film and television production house. It aired in the U.S. on Sleuth, under the title Bury the Lead, to distinguish it from a CBS series with a similar name.

The Eleventh Hour

2002

The Comey Rule poster
6.9

An immersive, behind-the-headlines account of the historically turbulent events surrounding the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, which divided a nation. This two-part biopic tells the story of two powerful figures, Comey and Trump, whose strikingly different personalities, ethics and loyalties put them on a collision course.

The Comey Rule

2020

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