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.

Filmography

• A Woman of Substance — Adam Fairley
• 2026Echoes
• How to Get to Heaven from Belfast — Owen
• 2026In the Grey — Mick Dunne
• 2025A Working Man — Viper
• MobLand — Paul
• 2024Argylle — Handsome Man
• Fool Me Once — Shane Tessier
• 2024Strangers — Tony
• 2024The Jester from Transylvania — Michael Cunningham
• The Teacher — Tim Oxley
• 2021Here Are the Young Men — Homeless Man
• Kin — Jimmy Kinsella
• 2021Lapwing — David
• The Tower — DI Kieran Shaw
• Gangs of London — Jack O'Doherty
• The Deceived — Michael
• Treadstone — Spencer
• Butterfly — Stephen Duffy
• Derry Girls — Madstab
• Krypton — Lobo
• Safe — Josh Mason
• Women on the Verge — Kieran
• Lore — William Burke
• 2017My Daughter Is Missing — Alek
• Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands — Skellan
• 2016Breakdown — Connor Moran
• 2016The Green Rabbit & The Ice Cream Girl — Gerry
• A.D. The Bible Continues — Saul
• No Offence — Andrew Curtis
• 2014Blood — Guy
• Constantine — Jim Corrigan
• 2014Guardians of the Galaxy — Head Riot Guard
• In the Flesh — Simon Monroe
• Peaky Blinders — Billy Grade
• The Fall — Glenn Martin, Glen Martin
• 2012The Inside — Hughie, Executive Producer
• 2010Charlie Casanova — Charlie Casanova
• 2010Lapse — Guy
• 2009Once Upon a Time in Dublin — Jonnie Linski
• 2009Savage — Jacko
• 2008Christian Blake — Floyd
• 2008Colour from the Dark — Luigi
• 2007Shattered — Matt Connolly
• 2006Mebollix
• 2006Studs — Jake
• An Impossible Way to Die

Appearances as themselves (3)

• Rob Beckett's Smart TV — Self
• Blankety Blank — Self - Panellist
• The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer — Self - Guest