Kevin Doyle is an English actor. He was born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England in 1961. He is better known as the perpetually unlucky butler-turned-footman Molesley in Downton Abbey (2010). He has appeared in shows such as Happy Valley (2014), Scott & Bailey (2011), and the 2016 ITV TV Mini-Series Paranoid (2016). He lives in West Yorkshire with his partner Olwen May.

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Jim Carter, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Kevin Doyle, Joanne Froggatt, Phyllis Logan, Lesley Nicol, and Sophie McShera in Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025)

Kevin Doyle and Michelle Dockery in Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)

Jim Carter, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Kevin Doyle, Joanne Froggatt, Phyllis Logan, Lesley Nicol, Robert James-Collier, Sophie McShera, and Michael Fox in Downton Abbey (2019)

Jim Carter, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Kevin Doyle, and Phyllis Logan in Downton Abbey (2019)

Kevin Doyle, Neil Dudgeon, and Jason Hughes in Midsomer Murders (1997)

Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville, Kevin Doyle, and Michelle Dockery in Downton Abbey (2010)

Raquel Cassidy and Kevin Doyle in Downton Abbey (2010)

Hugh Bonneville, Brendan Coyle, Kevin Doyle, and Allen Leech in Downton Abbey (2010)

Joseph Molesley

Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Brendan Coyle, Joanne Froggatt, Penelope Wilton, Allen Leech, Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael, Lily James, Fifi Hart, and Oliver Barker in Downton Abbey (2010)

Mr Molesley

Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith, Imelda Staunton, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Carter, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Kevin Doyle, Joanne Froggatt, Matthew Goode, Phyllis Logan, Lesley Nicol, Penelope Wilton, Allen Leech, Robert James-Collier, Michelle Dockery, Harry Hadden-Paton, Sophie McShera, Tuppence Middleton, Laura Carmichael, and Michael Fox in Downton Abbey (2019)

Lance

Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith, Imelda Staunton, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Carter, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Hugh Dancy, Kevin Doyle, Joanne Froggatt, Phyllis Logan, Lesley Nicol, Douglas Reith, Dominic West, Penelope Wilton, Allen Leech, Robert James-Collier, Michelle Dockery, Harry Hadden-Paton, Laura Haddock, Sophie McShera, Tuppence Middleton, Laura Carmichael, and Michael Fox in Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)

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