Shaun Evans | |
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Born |
Liverpool, England |
6 March 1980
Education | Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 2002-present |
Shaun Francis Evans (born 6 March 1980) is an English actor, best known for playing a young Endeavour Morse in the ITV drama series Endeavour.
Evans' family is from Northern Ireland. Evans was born and raised in Liverpool, where his father worked as a taxi driver and his mother was employed as a hospital health care worker. He has a brother who is eleven months older than him. Evans gained a scholarship to St. Edward's College, which he attended from 1991 to 1998, and where he began acting in school productions.
He completed a course with the National Youth Theatre before moving to London at the age of 17-18 to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
His first major role was that of gay 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 in The Boys from County Clare, starring alongside Bernard Hill, Colm Meaney and Andrea Corr. Additional screen credits include Being Julia, The Situation, Cashback, Gone, Boy A, Telstar: The Joe Meek Story, Princess Kaiulani and Clive Barker's horror, Dread.