Shaun Prendergast
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 5 December 1958 · North Shields, Northumberland, England, UK
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
Acting 16
- 2024Wicked as Shiz President
- 2023TUGS: A Bigg Retrospective as Self
- 2018Peterloo as Magistrate Bolt
- 2018London Unplugged as Bithem
- 2016I, Daniel Blake as At the Sawmill
- 2015Remainder as DI Merril
- 2013Harrigan as Atkins
- 2008Fast Track: No Limits as Heinrich Glietsch
- 2005Frozen as Man in pub
- 2002AKA as Prison officer
- 1997The Vanishing Man as Gimson
- 1995In the Bleak Midwinter as Mule Train Man
- 1994Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Ship's Crew
- 1992Wallpaper Warrior as D.C. Porter
- 1989Henry V as Bates
- 1988Twelfth Night, or What You Will as Fabian
Writing 1
- 2017The Hole · writer