Shaun Prendergast
Actor
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
I, Daniel Blake
as At the Sawmill 2016
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Ship's Crew 1994
Henry V
as Bates 1989
Peterloo
as Magistrate Bolt 2018
Fast Track: No Limits
as Heinrich Glietsch 2008
Remainder
as DI Merril 2015
In the Bleak Midwinter
as Mule Train Man 1995
Frozen
as Man in pub 2005
AKA
as Prison officer 2002
Harrigan
as Atkins 2013
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
as Fabian 1988
London Unplugged
as Bithem 2018
TUGS: A Bigg Retrospective
as Self 2023
Wallpaper Warrior
as D.C. Porter 1992