
Brendan Penny
Department: Acting
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

Time for Them to Come Home for Christmas
2021

The Wedding Cottage
2023

Held Hostage
2009

Hard Ride to Hell
2010

I Love You, Beth Cooper
2009

Christmas Crash
2009

A Season for Family
2023

The Virginian
2014

Along Came a Nanny
2014

In Merry Measure
2022

Fifty Shades Freed
2018

Heavenly Match
2014

Family Practice Mysteries: Coming Home
2024

'Tis the Season for Love
2015

Tooth Fairy
2010

The A-Team
2010

Autumn in the Vineyard
2016

Love on the Danube: Kissing Stars
2024

A Dash of Love
2017

Summer in the Vineyard
2017

Gourmet Detective: A Healthy Place to Die
2015

Magical Christmas Ornaments
2017

Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe
2018

The Wedding Chapel
2013

Valentine in the Vineyard
2019

Easter Under Wraps
2019

Christmas Cottage
2008

The Secret Ingredient
2020

John Tucker Must Die
2006

A Little Christmas Charm
2020

Poison Ivy: The Secret Society
2008

Beverly Hills Wedding
2021

A Novel Noel
2024

The More the Merrier
2025

Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper!
2025

Chesapeake Shores
2016

Motive
2013

Supernatural
2005

Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
2010

Supernatural
2005

The Assistants
2009

Stargate Atlantis
2004

Smallville
2001

Stargate Atlantis
2004

Ring of Fire
2012

Jake 2.0
2003