Bio

 

Brent Anthony McCoy was born Brent Anthony Manning in Tring, Hertfordshire, England, UK, a commuter town northwest of London. His mother brought him to the United States when he was three years old where he grew up south of Boston in Massachusetts.

 

His love of film came from watching Sean Connery as 007 in the Bond films of the mid and late 60s. But his first foray into acting didn’t come until 1984 when he auditioned for a community theater production of the ‘Wizard of Oz’, he was cast as the gatekeeper.

 

Between 1984 and 1999, Brent would be in and out of different projects. Auditioning for plays, with no success, and signing on for extra work on a film shooting in Boston, where he wasn’t chosen. And work with a local improv group doing a show on a cable access channel in North Attleboro, Massachusetts.

 

Then in 1999, he decided to make the plunge and get serious, signing up for an acting class in Boston. The class was the Meisner Technique. It wasn’t very good. It might have been the teacher or maybe the class, but more than likely it was that Brent was uninformed and should have been in a more basic class. The only thing he learned was acting, good acting, was more difficult than he realized.

 

April of 2002 Brent moved to Austin, Texas. Having shoveled enough snow for one life time, he moved for the heat and found a film community. He signed up for an acting class with Ron Hayden, a Meisner teacher and started with Beginning Meisner. In 2003, Brent had his first headshots done. The photographer had a friend who was starting an agency in Austin.  Brent met with Erin Franklin and she signed him to her new agency.

 

Brent started to audition for film, TV and commercials, booking regional commercials and photo shoots. His first theatrical role was Herb Clutter in Infamous (2006) directed by Doug McGrath. Then, the independent film Guilty (2008) directed by Gabriel Folse, and a short film Room 314 (2006) directed by Kyle Bogart. Finally, he was cast in Kimberly Pierce’s Stop/Loss (2008), but due to arguments over budget, his scenes were cut.

 

In January of 2008 Brent moved to Los Angeles, California to ’step up the ladder’ as an actor, and even though he had credits when he came to Los Angeles, he started all over again on the bottom rung. From January 2008 to July of 2010, Brent studied at the Howard Fine Acting Studio in Hollywood. In January of 2011, he moved to The Actor Space with Joe Palese and continues to study there today. Between 2008 and 2013, he continued to audition, working on student films, short films and plays in Los Angeles.

 

2013 began a change in his work as an actor, working on productions, bringing his stamp to the character and making it his own. Working on The Beauty Salon (2013) directed by Simon Vallejo, Bodybag (2013) directed by Carl Charroux, Alpha House (2014) directed by Jacob Cooney, The Gnome (2015) directed by Joe Price, Faraar (2015) directed by Baljit Singh Deo, Beneath the Neon (2015) directed by Brandon Harris and Age of Kaos (2016) directed by Tim Larson.

 

Brent looks forward to 2016 and beyond to see what new adventures are waiting.