
Shaun Prendergast
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1958-12-05 (66 years old)
Place of Birth
North Shields, Northumberland, England, UK
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.
Acting
(2024)
Wicked
as Shiz President
(2023)
TUGS: A Bigg Retrospective
as Self
(2018)
Peterloo
as Magistrate Bolt
(2018)
London Unplugged
as Bithem
(2016)
I, Daniel Blake
as At the Sawmill
(2015)
Remainder
as DI Merril
(2013)
Harrigan
as Atkins
(2008)
Fast Track: No Limits
as Heinrich Glietsch
(2005)
Frozen
as Man in pub
(2002)
AKA
as Prison officer
(1997)
The Vanishing Man
as Gimson
(1995)
In the Bleak Midwinter
as Mule Train Man
(1994)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Ship's Crew
(1992)
Wallpaper Warrior
as D.C. Porter
(1989)
Henry V
as Bates
(1988)
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
as Fabian
Crew
(2017)
The Hole
Writer