Shaun Prendergast
Acting • Born 1958-12-05
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.
Filmography
38 credits
Fast Track: No Limits
Movie • 2008
Heinrich Glietsch
TUGS: A Bigg Retrospective
Movie • 2023
Self
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Movie • 1988
Fabian
Wallpaper Warrior
Movie • 1992
D.C. Porter
Remainder
Movie • 2015
DI Merril
Frozen
Movie • 2005
Man in pub
Henry V
Movie • 1989
Bates
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Movie • 1994
Ship's Crew
In the Bleak Midwinter
Movie • 1995
Mule Train Man
I, Daniel Blake
Movie • 2016
At the Sawmill
Peterloo
Movie • 2018
Magistrate Bolt
London Unplugged
Movie • 2018
Bithem
Harrigan
Movie • 2013
Atkins
The Vanishing Man
Movie • 1997
Gimson
AKA
Movie • 2002
Prison officer
Wicked
Movie • 2024
Shiz President
TUGS
TV • 1989
WPC 56
TV • 2013
Henry Fuller
Peak Practice
TV • 1993
Trevor Sharpe
Father Brown
TV • 2013
George Murray
Men of the World
TV • 1994
Pie in the Sky
TV • 1994
Quirke
Dark Angel
TV • 2016
Sgt Hutchinson
(All Quiet on the) Preston Front
TV • 1994
Vic the Railwayman
Our Friends in the North
TV • 1996
Frankie
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Ron Tidy
Waiting for God
TV • 1990
PC Wilkins
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
TV • 2002
Sheehan
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Harry Marvin
Soldier Soldier
TV • 1991
CSM George Marshall
Ted Lasso
TV • 2020
Paparazzi
Industry
TV • 2020
George
The Good Ship Murder
TV • 2023
Johnny Taylor
The Afternoon Play
TV • 2003
Jerry Parnell
Number 10
TV
55 Degrees North
TV • 2004
Frank Galley
The Vanishing Man
TV • 1997
Gimson
The Basil Brush Show
TV • 2002
David's Father