Brendan James Penny (born November 9, 1978) is a Canadian film and television actor who first became well known to TV audiences as A.J. Varland in the first season of Whistler that aired in Canada from 2006–2008. He is perhaps best known as Detective Brian Lucas in Motive, a Canadian crime drama centred on a team of Vancouver homicide detectives, also starring Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira and Lauren Holly, which aired from 2013–2016. Brendan currently stars as Kevin O'Brien in the Hallmark Channel family drama series Chesapeake Shores, which premiered on August 14, 2016. He has also been the hero of a number of Hallmark originals.

Filmography

• 2026Mr. & Mrs. Christmas — Taylor Lewis
• 2026Texas Two-Step — Luke
• 2025Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper! — Ken
• 2025The More the Merrier — Dr. Brian Davis
• 2024A Novel Noel — Sawyer
• 2024Family Practice Mysteries: Coming Home — Detective Jack Quinn
• 2024Love on the Danube: Kissing Stars — Tripp
• 2023A Season for Family — Paul
• 2023The Wedding Cottage — Evan Stanford
• 2022In Merry Measure — Adam
• 2021Beverly Hills Wedding — Cory
• 2021Time for Them to Come Home for Christmas — Paul
• 2020A Little Christmas Charm — Greg Matthews
• 2020The Secret Ingredient — Andrew
• 2019Easter Under Wraps — Bryan
• 2019Valentine in the Vineyard — Nate DeLuca
• 2018Fifty Shades Freed — Co-Pilot Beighley (Grey Jet)
• 2018Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe — Luke Bennett
• 2017A Dash of Love — Paul Dellucci
• 2017Magical Christmas Ornaments — Nate
• 2017Summer in the Vineyard — Nate DeLuca
• 2016Autumn in the Vineyard — Nate DeLuca
• Chesapeake Shores — Kevin O'Brien
• 2015'Tis the Season for Love — Dean Hubert
• 2015Gourmet Detective: A Healthy Place to Die — Eric
• 2014Along Came a Nanny — Dean Bartons
• 2014Heavenly Match — David Swenson
• 2014The Virginian — Owen Walton
• Motive — Detective Brian Lucas
• 2013The Wedding Chapel — Mike
• Ring of Fire — Eric Vascer
• Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures — Claude
• 2010Hard Ride to Hell — Danny
• 2010The A-Team — C130J Pilot #1
• 2010Tooth Fairy — Josh
• 2009Christmas Crash — Matt
• 2009Held Hostage — Chris Clark
• 2009I Love You, Beth Cooper — Sean
• The Assistants — Danny Newell
• 2008Christmas Cottage — Eugene
• 2008Poison Ivy: The Secret Society — Will
• 2006John Tucker Must Die — Teammate #1
• Supernatural — Steve, Demon
• 2005When Jesse Was Born — Spanky
• Stargate Atlantis — Male Wraith, Todd the Wraith
• Jake 2.0 — Rollerblader
• Smallville — Wagner

Appearances as themselves (1)

• Christmas at Sea — Self