Brendan Penny
Acting
November 9, 1978
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.
Movies
Fifty Shades Freed
2018
The A-Team
2010
Family Practice Mysteries: Coming Home
2024
Tooth Fairy
2010
Held Hostage
2009
A Little Christmas Charm
2020
I Love You, Beth Cooper
2009
John Tucker Must Die
2006
The More the Merrier
2025
A Dash of Love
2017
Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper!
2025
Heavenly Match
2014
Poison Ivy: The Secret Society
2008
In Merry Measure
2022
Autumn in the Vineyard
2016
Easter Under Wraps
2019
Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe
2018
A Novel Noel
2024
Summer in the Vineyard
2017
The Wedding Chapel
2013
