
Shaun Prendergast
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
Credits
- 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
- 1994 · Men of the World as
- 1994 · Pie in the Sky as Quirke
- 1994 · (All Quiet on the) Preston Front as Vic the Railwayman
- 1993 · Peak Practice as Trevor Sharpe
- 1992 · Wallpaper Warrior as D.C. Porter
- 1992 · Heartbeat as Ron Tidy
- 1992 · Heartbeat as Harry Marvin
- 1991 · Soldier Soldier as CSM George Marshall
- 1990 · Waiting for God as PC Wilkins
- 1989 · Henry V as Bates
- 1989 · Tugs as
- 1988 · Twelfth Night, or What You Will as Fabian