Shaun Evans was born on the 6th of March 1980 in Liverpool to Irish parents. His father worked as a taxi driver and his mother was a hospital worker, plus he has a brother 11 months older than him. He has family in Tyrone and Dublin and visits often. When he was young, he had terrible terrible asthma and was in hospital all the time on drips. He has said he actually doesn't remember most things until he was about 11 or 12. Raised as an Irish Catholic he gained a scholarship to St Edward's College, the highly academic Liverpool school run by the Christian Brothers which he attended from 1991 to 1998 and where he began acting in school productions. Faced with a choice after he left school between pursuing acting or studying history and politics at university, he chose the former. Shaun says, " I was 18 and I fancied it to be honest. It may sound flippant but it was what I wanted to do… I can’t really explain it. I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to drama school and I went." He completed a course with the National Youth Theatre in London before fully moving to London around the age of 18 to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He had almost finished his three year course when he left to start working, but his first film never saw the light of day.
After appearing in the TV series 'Sam's Game' (2001), the first major role he had was that of French teacher John Paul Keating in the Channel 4 comedy-drama 'Teachers' during its second series in 2002. The following year he made his feature film debut as Teddy in 'The Boys from County Clare' (2003), starring alongside Bernard Hill, Colm Meaney and Andrea Corr. It was while on set that he and singer Andrea Corr started a relationship that lasted for four years. In 2006 he appeared in several things including the mini series 'The Virgin Queen' as the Earl of Southampton and as Ryan Everitt in 'Murder City'. The next year saw him in 'Inspector George Gently' and then in 'Telstar; The Joe Meek Story' (2008), 'Ashes To Ashes' (2009) as P.C. Kevin Hales and as Jimmy in 4 episodes of the TV mini series 'The Take' (2009). The TV movie 'Come Rain Come Shine' (2010) saw him star alongside David Jason and Alison Steadman as their property developer son David who has a life style that loses the family virtualy everything. More TV series followed including 'Whitechapel' (2012), 'Silk' (2012) and 'The Last Weekend' (2012) before he had his his breakthrough in 'Endeavour' (2012-23), initially playing the young Inspector Morse in a four-part prequel series written by Lewis creator and Inspector Morse writer Russell Lewis. Despite fans of the original series worrying about a prequel, the pilot film, and Shaun's brilliant portrayal of Morse, were well received by critics and viewers alike. The series saw Shaun star as a young Morse, set twenty years before the original series, starring John Thaw, began and as the series progressed, he quickly earned the job of an associate producer and eventually got his wished-for moon: the opportunity to direct 'Endeavour'. Shaun said, " The first time I ever had a job was in a camera shop! So I’ve always been incredibly interested in photography for two reasons, really. I think, when we talk about economy of storytelling, that could be the best way. If you can tell the story in one picture, or a selection of pictures, that is a sort of a precursor to the work that we do anyways, so when I prepare my work as a director – and sometimes as an actor as well, and occasionally as a producer – I always have a visual sort of template. I may be inspired by one particular photographer, but for whatever the job is, I bring hundreds of photographs,’cause that speaks to me more and it’s an easy way to articulate whatever it is you’re trying to create yourself." On the 23rd of May 2022, ITV confirmed that 'Endeavour' would end production after a decade on air with a total of 36 episodes.
In January and February 2015, he starred as Alex in the Peter Souter play 'Hello/Goodbye', with Miranda Raison playing his love interest.
Taking another break from 'Endeavour', in 2021 Shaun took the role of coxswain Elliot Glover in the BBC series 'Vigil' (2021). He admitted that he couldn’t imagine anything worse than working on a submarine for weeks at a time. He took extensive research for the role as he explained: "I spoke to some guys in the Navy who put me in touch with
some submariners – one of whom was a Coxswain – and I spent a good bit
of time chatting to them, to find out what their jobs entailed and what
was required." The BBC said of the series, " In 2021 Vigil was the UK's most-watched new drama launch in three years
(since Bodyguard in 2018). It attracted an
audience of over 13 million viewers across 30-days for episode one, and
the series overall had an average of 12.6m viewers."
In 2024 he looked unrecognisable when he appeared alongside Anna Maxwell Martin in the TV drama 'Until I Kill You', which saw him play serial killer John Sweeney. Anna portrays nurse Delia Balmer in the four-partner, which follows her terrifying ordeal after realising her boyfriend of three years is a murderer. Based on Delia's 2017 memoir, Living with a Serial Killer, the series depicts the pair's relationship, from their first meeting in a London pub in 1991 to the moment John attacked her with an axe. The convicted killer is currently serving a life sentence for the murders of Melissa Halstead and Paula Fields, and for the attempted murder of Delia. In September 2024, it was announced that he will portray as John Hughes in the new ITV espionage thriller, 'Betrayal'.
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