Name
Shaun Prendergast
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1958-12-05 (68 years old)
Place of Birth
North Shields, Northumberland, England, UK
Biography
Shaun Prendergast (born 1958) is an English actor and writer, born in North Shields, educated at Collingwood School, Oswin terrace North Shields, Norham High and Tynemouth Sixth Form College and trained at Bretton Hall College (BA Hons). Predergast's first play Potter's Wheel, written when a student, won five awards at the 1980 National Student Drama Festival including Best New Play and was subsequently presented at the Old Vic as part of an NSDF showcase season. He is married to Niki Winterson (of Wintersons Talent Management) and has a stepson Domenic and a daughter, Molly. They live in London.
He was an actor and playwright in residence for Northumberland Theatre Company before joining the BBC Radio Drama Company, and subsequently became a founder member of Kenneth Branagh's newly formed Renaissance Theatre Company. Awards include a Sony Award, a Writers Guild Award and a Time Out Award.
Christmas of 2010 saw Shaun play the role of Sarah the Cook in the pantomime Dick Whittington at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, directed by Steve Marmion.
Known For
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- 2008 Fast Track: No Limits as Heinrich Glietsch
- 2023 TUGS: A Bigg Retrospective as Self
- 1988 Twelfth Night, or What You Will as Fabian
- 1992 Wallpaper Warrior as D.C. Porter
- 2015 Remainder as DI Merril
- 2005 Frozen as Man in pub
- 1989 Henry V as Bates
- 1994 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Ship's Crew
- 1995 In the Bleak Midwinter as Mule Train Man
- 2016 I, Daniel Blake as At the Sawmill
- 2018 Peterloo as Magistrate Bolt
- 2018 London Unplugged as Bithem
- 2013 Harrigan as Atkins
- 1997 The Vanishing Man as Gimson
- 2002 AKA as Prison officer
- 2024 Wicked as Shiz President
- 1989 TUGS ( 13 episodes ) as Sunshine / Zak (voice)
- 2013 WPC 56 ( 1 episode ) as Henry Fuller
- 1993 Peak Practice ( 12 episodes ) as Trevor Sharpe
- 2013 Father Brown ( 1 episode ) as George Murray
- 1994 Men of the World ( 1 episode )
- 1994 Pie in the Sky ( 1 episode ) as Quirke
- 2016 Dark Angel ( 2 episodes ) as Sgt Hutchinson
- 1994 (All Quiet on the) Preston Front ( 2 episodes ) as Vic the Railwayman
- 1996 Our Friends in the North ( 1 episode ) as Frankie
- 1992 Heartbeat ( 1 episode ) as Ron Tidy
- 1990 Waiting for God ( 1 episode ) as PC Wilkins
- 2002 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries ( 1 episode ) as Sheehan
- 1992 Heartbeat ( 1 episode ) as Harry Marvin
- 1991 Soldier Soldier ( 3 episodes ) as CSM George Marshall
- 2020 Ted Lasso ( 3 episodes ) as Paparazzi
- 2020 Industry ( 1 episode ) as George
- 2023 The Good Ship Murder ( 1 episode ) as Johnny Taylor
- 2003 The Afternoon Play ( 1 episode ) as Jerry Parnell
- Soon Number 10 ( 6 episodes )
- 2004 55 Degrees North ( 1 episode ) as Frank Galley
- 1997 The Vanishing Man ( 1 episode ) as Gimson
- 2002 The Basil Brush Show ( 1 episode ) as David's Father
- 2003 Seven Wonders of the Industrial World ( 1 episode ) as Ned Hepworth
- 2013 Way to Go ( 1 episode ) as Grant
- 2006 Waterloo Road ( 7 episodes ) as Robert Bain
