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.