Shaun Prendergast

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

Fast Track: No Limits
Fast Track: No Limits
TUGS: A Bigg Retrospective
TUGS: A Bigg Retrospective
Remainder
Remainder

Filmography

2024 Wicked
as Shiz President
2023 TUGS: A Bigg Retrospective
as Self
2020 Industry
as George
2020 Ted Lasso
as Paparazzi
2018 Peterloo
as Magistrate Bolt
2018 London Unplugged
as Bithem
2016 Dark Angel
as Sgt Hutchinson
2016 I, Daniel Blake
as At the Sawmill
2015 Remainder
as DI Merril
2013 Harrigan
as Atkins
2013 WPC 56
as Henry Fuller
2013 Father Brown
as George Murray
2008 Fast Track: No Limits
as Heinrich Glietsch
2005 Frozen
as Man in pub
2002 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
as Sheehan
2002 AKA
as Prison officer
1997 The Vanishing Man
as Gimson
1996 Our Friends in the North
as Frankie
1995 In the Bleak Midwinter
as Mule Train Man
1994 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Ship's Crew