Brendan Penny

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.

Known For

Texas Two-Step 2026 ★ 8.0
The More the Merrier 2025 ★ 6.3
Fifty Shades Freed 2018 ★ 6.7
Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe 2018 ★ 6.1
Magical Christmas Ornaments 2017 ★ 6.0
Chesapeake Shores 2016 ★ 7.8
Gourmet Detective: A Healthy Place to Die 2015 ★ 6.7
'Tis the Season for Love 2015 ★ 5.8
Motive 2013 ★ 6.4
The Wedding Chapel 2013 ★ 5.3
Ring of Fire 2012 ★ 5.7
The A-Team 2010 ★ 6.4
Tooth Fairy 2010 ★ 5.5
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures 2010
Held Hostage 2009 ★ 4.4
I Love You, Beth Cooper 2009 ★ 6.0
The Assistants 2009 ★ 5.5
Poison Ivy: The Secret Society 2008 ★ 4.6
Christmas Cottage 2008 ★ 6.3
John Tucker Must Die 2006 ★ 6.1
Supernatural 2005 ★ 8.3
Stargate Atlantis 2004 ★ 8.0
Jake 2.0 2003 ★ 7.1
Smallville 2001 ★ 8.2