Brendan Penny

Brendan Penny

Born: November 9, 1978
in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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.

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Family Practice Mysteries: Coming Home
Title: Family Practice Mysteries: Coming Home
Character: Detective Jack Quinn
Released: May 17, 2024
Type: Movie
A former Army surgeon moves back to her hometown and joins a practice of family doctors, but when she's drawn into solving the mysterious death of a patient, her quiet life becomes upended.
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A Season for Family
Title: A Season for Family
Character: Paul
Released: November 22, 2023
Type: Movie
While Maddie’s adopted son wants to meet his brother Cody, who was adopted into another family, Cody’s father, isn’t ready.
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The Wedding Cottage
Title: The Wedding Cottage
Character: Evan Stanford
Released: April 15, 2023
Type: Movie
A wedding guide creator must convince an uninspired artist and owner of a special wedding cottage to renovate the rundown cottage to host a contest-winning couple for their dream wedding.
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In Merry Measure
Title: In Merry Measure
Character: Adam
Released: November 12, 2022
Type: Movie
When pop star Darcy returns home to spend Christmas with her sister and niece, she unexpectedly finds herself coaching the high school choir with her onetime rival, Adam.
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Time for Them to Come Home for Christmas
Title: Time for Them to Come Home for Christmas
Character: Paul
Released: November 27, 2021
Type: Movie
During the holidays, a woman with amnesia catches a ride with her handsome nurse to investigate the only clue to her identity: a newspaper clipping for a Christmas Festival with a cryptic invitation.
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Beverly Hills Wedding
Title: Beverly Hills Wedding
Character: Cory
Released: February 6, 2021
Type: Movie
A woman wins her sister a Beverly Hills wedding and gets a surprise of her own.
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A Little Christmas Charm
Title: A Little Christmas Charm
Character: Greg Matthews
Released: December 6, 2020
Type: Movie
Holly, a jewelry designer finds a lost charm bracelet and teams up with investigative reporter Greg in hopes of finding the owner and returning it by Christmas Eve.
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The Secret Ingredient
Title: The Secret Ingredient
Character: Andrew
Released: February 15, 2020
Type: Movie
Small-town baker, Kelly, gets a big surprise when she is invited to compete on a Valentine's Day baking show in New York City - and an even bigger surprise when she runs into her ex-fiance.
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Easter Under Wraps
Title: Easter Under Wraps
Character: Bryan
Released: April 20, 2019
Type: Movie
Erin Cavendish goes undercover at her family's chocolate plant to see why sales are down when she meets head chocolatier, Bryan, who has new ideas on how to update the Easter product line.
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Valentine in the Vineyard
Title: Valentine in the Vineyard
Character: Nate DeLuca
Released: February 2, 2019
Type: Movie
As partners in life and professional winemaking, Frankie Baldwin and Nate DeLuca have different personality types and styles. They’ve just gotten engaged when Frankie’s cousin Lexi and Nate’s brother Marco spring the news that they are getting married – and on Valentine’s Day. Agreeing to keep their plans a secret, Frankie and Nate offer to host Lexi and Marco’s big day.
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Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe
Title: Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe
Character: Luke Bennett
Released: December 23, 2018
Type: Movie
Darcy has always worked hard to prove herself and be successful on her own terms, even choosing to start her own company, rather than work with her father. Returning to her hometown for Christmas, Darcy reconnects with an old rival, restaurant owner Luke, and they are forced to plan a charity event together. As Darcy spends time with her family and Luke, she starts to realize what matters most in life and sets out to mend her relationship with her father, and possibly fall in love.
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Fifty Shades Freed
Title: Fifty Shades Freed
Character: Co-Pilot Beighley (Grey Jet)
Released: January 17, 2018
Type: Movie
Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian and Ana fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life of luxury. But just as she steps into her role as Mrs. Grey and he relaxes into an unfamiliar stability, new threats could jeopardize their happy ending before it even begins.
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Magical Christmas Ornaments
Title: Magical Christmas Ornaments
Character: Nate
Released: December 3, 2017
Type: Movie
When Marie begins receiving ornaments from her mother, a new coincidental blessing comes with each one, causing Marie to feel more excited for the holidays than she has in years. Marie’s once-lost Christmas spirit gets another boost when she meets her handsome neighbor Nate and feels a spark with him while celebrating the season.
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Summer in the Vineyard
Title: Summer in the Vineyard
Character: Nate DeLuca
Released: August 12, 2017
Type: Movie
Frankie and Nate are now a couple and are gearing up for Summer Fest, the town's largest event. They can't wait to reveal their new wine and put the vineyard on the map. But when an issue with the wine puts things in jeopardy, both the relationship and the partnership will be put to the test.
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A Dash of Love
Title: A Dash of Love
Character: Paul Dellucci
Released: February 11, 2017
Type: Movie
A young woman who dreams of opening her own restaurant lands a job at a prominent restaurant whose head chef becomes her unlikely ally when the restaurant's unscrupulous owner, a Master Chef herself, plots to return the place to its former glory by presenting her new assistant's recipes as her own.
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Autumn in the Vineyard
Title: Autumn in the Vineyard
Character: Nate DeLuca
Released: October 8, 2016
Type: Movie
When Frankie Baldwin and Nate Deluca both have a claim to ownership of Sorrento Farm, they are forced to divide the vineyard right down the middle and work the fields alongside each other to bring in the harvest leading up to the Best Wine competition at the annual Autumn Harvest Festival -- only this rivalry won't be settled in the fields, because in spite of their contentious bickering, the simplest way to settle this particular legal dispute is with a romance.
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Title: Chesapeake Shores
Character: Kevin O'Brien
Released: August 14, 2016
Type: TV
A divorced mom deals with an old romance and complicated family issues when she returns to her hometown with her twin daughters.
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'Tis the Season for Love
Title: 'Tis the Season for Love
Character: Dean Hubert
Released: November 1, 2015
Type: Movie
An out-of-work New York City actress returns home to the quaint small town she escaped 10 years before and finds a place far different than the hamlet she left. She suddenly finds performing possibilities and even romance that kind of blow her away.
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Gourmet Detective: A Healthy Place to Die
Title: Gourmet Detective: A Healthy Place to Die
Character: Eric
Released: August 2, 2015
Type: Movie
When Henry is invited as a guest speaker at a luxury resort spa, he quickly finds himself at the center of another murder. With Maggie at his side, our favorite duo must not only find the killer but be careful they don't become his latest victim.
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Along Came a Nanny
Title: Along Came a Nanny
Character: Dean Bartons
Released: October 12, 2014
Type: Movie
Hoping to catch a burglar, a cop (Cameron Mathison) goes under cover as a nanny in an upscale community. As he looks for leads, he becomes involved with a high-maintenance family and a pretty caregiver (Sarah Lancaster) nearby.
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Heavenly Match
Title: Heavenly Match
Character: David Swenson
Released: October 12, 2014
Type: Movie
Reverend Casey Hart is falling for her friend and fellow seminarian David Swenson. When she becomes senior minister, will her fear of failing become stronger than her faith in herself?
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Character: Owen Walton
Released: January 12, 2014
Type: Movie
Trace Adkins (The Lincoln Lawyer), Ron Perlman (TV's "Sons of Anarchy") and Brendan Penny (Ring Of Fire) star in this gritty and riveting re-imagining of the classic Western saga. Raised by powerful cattle baron Judge Henry (Perlman), South, aka "The Virginian" (Adkins), lives his life as a ranch enforcer with bravery and steely determination. When a big-city writer (Penny) raises questions about the fierce treatment of rustlers, South is quick to defend the brutal realities of the "Code of the West." But as he looks deeper into the latest string of rustling and finds his convictions questioned by a pretty new schoolteacher (Victoria Pratt, Mutant X), South begins to wonder if the Judge had ulterior motives in raising him to a life of bloodshed and violence in this explosive, action-loaded epic on the open range.
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The Wedding Chapel
Title: The Wedding Chapel
Character: Mike
Released: April 3, 2013
Type: Movie
Uninspired and newly single painter Sara is down on her luck and wants nothing more than to get away from her problems. When she decides to take a trip to visit her mom, she becomes involved in the efforts to save a local church which is in danger of closing down.
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Title: Motive
Character: Detective Brian Lucas
Released: February 3, 2013
Type: TV
A team of Vancouver investigators, led by homicide detective Angie Flynn, sets out to uncover the motive of each puzzling murder by discovering the killer's connection to the victim. Viewers get a glimpse of the killer before and after the crime is committed.
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The A-Team
Title: The A-Team
Character: C130J Pilot #1
Released: June 9, 2010
Type: Movie
A group of Iraq War veterans goes on the run from U.S. military forces while they try to clear their names after being framed for a crime they didn't commit. Along the way, Col. Hannibal Smith, Capt. H.M. ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock , Sgt. Bosco ‘B.A.’ Baracus, and Lt. Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck help out various people they encounter.
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Hard Ride to Hell
Title: Hard Ride to Hell
Character: Danny
Released: May 18, 2010
Type: Movie
A group of family and friends on a camping trip through the Texas badlands are taken on a on-way ride to Hell after they inadvertently witness a ritual sacrifice at a deserted campsite. Pursued by the devil worshiping biker gang responsible, they hole up in an abandoned church near the border, only to discover that they are pawns in a decades-old battle between good and evil.
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Tooth Fairy
Title: Tooth Fairy
Character: Josh
Released: January 14, 2010
Type: Movie
When minor-league hockey player Derek Thompson -- who has a penchant for knocking out his opponents' teeth every time he plays -- disillusions a fan, he is sentenced to a stint for one week as a bona fide, tutu-clad, real-life tooth fairy. Soon, Derek is inspired to rekindle his youthful dreams.
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Title: Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
Character: Claude
Released: January 10, 2010
Type: TV
Follows the lives of three young doctors fresh from medical school, and embarking on their new careers.
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Held Hostage
Title: Held Hostage
Character: Chris Clark
Released: July 19, 2009
Type: Movie
Michelle a single mother is kidnapped by three masked men and held hostage until she is forced to rob a bank which is the only option she has to saving her only child's life while they are both wired to explode.
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Title: The Assistants
Character: Danny Newell
Released: July 10, 2009
Type: TV
The Assistants is a Canadian sitcom that aired from 10 July 2009 to 11 September 2009. The series is the second original comedy to air on the Nickelodeon channel, The N after the series About a Girl.
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I Love You, Beth Cooper
Title: I Love You, Beth Cooper
Character: Sean
Released: July 10, 2009
Type: Movie
A valedictorian's declaration of love for a high-school cheerleader launches a night of revelry, reflection and romance for a group of graduating seniors.
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Christmas Crash
Title: Christmas Crash
Character: Matt
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A husband, wife and their two daughters take a Christmas break at a lodge in the woods. There's evident tension between the couple. He's pulled by attention to his corporation and negotiations about a merger. Even on their vacation he's on the phone. She's feeling abandoned. He takes her on a light plane flight to a cabin across the lake, but their plane suddenly loses altitude. They crash into the lake before they can notify anyone. The husband is more seriously hurt but with his wife's assistance they navigate cross-country towards a distant highway.. While they struggle to cross a ridge, the husband's business partner moves behind the scenes to sell the company to raiders, apparently assuming Frank is dead. Attacked by rogue wolves, the husband and wife are rescued in the nick of time. The FAA begins an investigation of the plane crash while the family begins to heal the emotional and physical wounds.
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Christmas Cottage
Title: Christmas Cottage
Character: Eugene
Released: October 15, 2008
Type: Movie
Inspired by the picturesque paintings of Thomas Kinkade, The Christmas Cottage tells the semi-autobiographical tale of how a young boy is propelled to launch a career as an artist after he learns that his mother is in danger of losing the family home.
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Poison Ivy: The Secret Society
Title: Poison Ivy: The Secret Society
Character: Will
Released: July 27, 2008
Type: Movie
A mysterious death of a young college student occurs late one night at a prestigious New England college...
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John Tucker Must Die
Title: John Tucker Must Die
Character: Teammate #1
Released: July 27, 2006
Type: Movie
After discovering they are all dating the same same guy, three popular students from different cliques band together for revenge, so they enlist the help of a new gal in town and conspire to break the jerk's heart, while destroying his reputation.
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Title: Supernatural
Character: Steve
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: TV
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
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Title: Supernatural
Character: Demon
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: TV
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
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Title: Stargate Atlantis
Released: July 15, 2004
Type: TV
With the Ancients' city of Atlantis discovered in the Pegasus Galaxy by Stargate Command, Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Major Sheppard lead a scientific expedition to the ancient abandoned city. Once there, the team not only find themselves unable to contact Earth, but their explorations unexpectedly reawaken the Ancients' deadly enemies, The Wraith, who hunger for this new prey. Now with the help of newfound local allies like Teyla Emmagan, the Atlantis Team sets about to uncover their new home's secrets even as their war of survival against the Wraith begins.
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Title: Smallville
Character: Wagner
Released: October 16, 2001
Type: TV
The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s final steps toward embracing his destiny as the Man of Steel.