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

• 2024Wicked — Shiz President
• The Good Ship Murder — Johnny Taylor
• Industry — George
• Ted Lasso — Paparazzi
• 2018London Unplugged — Bithem
• 2018Peterloo — Magistrate Bolt
• 2017The Hole — Writer
• Dark Angel — Sgt Hutchinson
• 2016I, Daniel Blake — At the Sawmill
• 2015Remainder — DI Merril
• Father Brown — George Murray
• 2013Harrigan — Atkins
• WPC 56 — Henry Fuller
• Way to Go — Grant
• 2008Fast Track: No Limits — Heinrich Glietsch
• Hotel Babylon — Daniel
• Waterloo Road — Robert Bain
• 2005Frozen — Man in pub
• 55 Degrees North — Frank Galley
• Seven Wonders of the Industrial World — Ned Hepworth
• The Afternoon Play — Jerry Parnell
• 2002AKA — Prison officer
• Cavegirl — Writer
• The Basil Brush Show — David's Father
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries — Sheehan
• My Parents Are Aliens — Writer
• Microsoap — Writer
• 1997The Vanishing Man — Gimson
• The Vanishing Man — Gimson
• Our Friends in the North — Frankie
• 1995In the Bleak Midwinter — Mule Train Man
• (All Quiet on the) Preston Front — Vic the Railwayman
• 1994Mary Shelley's Frankenstein — Ship's Crew
• Men of the World
• Pie in the Sky — Quirke
• Peak Practice — Trevor Sharpe
• Heartbeat — Ron Tidy, Harry Marvin
• 1992Wallpaper Warrior — D.C. Porter
• Soldier Soldier — CSM George Marshall, Writer
• Waiting for God — PC Wilkins
• 1989Henry V — Bates
• TUGS — Sunshine / Zak (voice)
• 1988Twelfth Night, or What You Will — Fabian
• Number 10

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2023TUGS: A Bigg Retrospective — Self