
Brendan Penny
Actor
Born: November 9, 1978 (47 years old)
Place of birth: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Biography
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 (42)
- Family Practice Mysteries: Coming Home (2024, ★ 8.6)
- Supernatural (2005, ★ 8.3)
- Smallville (2001, ★ 8.2)
- Time for Them to Come Home for Christmas (2021, ★ 6.4)
- The Wedding Cottage (2023, ★ 7.1)
- Chesapeake Shores (2016, ★ 7.8)
- Stargate Atlantis (2004, ★ 8)
- In Merry Measure (2022, ★ 6.7)
- Fifty Shades Freed (2018, ★ 6.7)
- The A-Team (2010, ★ 6.4)
- Love on the Danube: Kissing Stars (2024, ★ 7)
- A Dash of Love (2017, ★ 6.2)
- Gourmet Detective: A Healthy Place to Die (2015, ★ 6.6)
- Easter Under Wraps (2019, ★ 6.4)
- Christmas Cottage (2008, ★ 6.3)
- The Secret Ingredient (2020, ★ 6.7)
- A Little Christmas Charm (2020, ★ 6.8)
- Beverly Hills Wedding (2021, ★ 6.6)
- A Novel Noel (2024, ★ 6.8)
- Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper! (2025, ★ 7.5)
- The More the Merrier (2025, ★ 6.3)
- Motive (2013, ★ 6.4)
- Jake 2.0 (2003, ★ 7.1)
- I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009, ★ 6)
- A Season for Family (2023, ★ 6.1)
- Along Came a Nanny (2014, ★ 6.1)
- Heavenly Match (2014, ★ 5.5)
- 'Tis the Season for Love (2015, ★ 5.8)
- Tooth Fairy (2010, ★ 5.5)
- Autumn in the Vineyard (2016, ★ 6.1)