Shaun Evans

For other people named Shaun Evans, see Shaun Evans (disambiguation).

Shaun Evans
Evans at the Hampstead Theatre in 2015
Born	(1980-03-06) 6 March 1980 Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2002-present

Shaun Evans (born 6 March 1980) is an English actor, best known for playing a young Inspector Morse in the ITV drama series Endeavour.

Early life

Evans' family is from Northern Ireland. Evans was born and raised in Liverpool, Merseyside, 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 he. 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.

Career

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.

On television, Evans was featured in the 2002 docudrama The Project and was seen as the Earl of Southampton in the miniseries The Virgin Queen, which premiered in November 2005 on Masterpiece Theatre on PBS in the US before airing on the BBC in January 2006. His stage work includes a UK tour of the award-winning play Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall. Recent television appearances include Murder City, BBC's Ashes to Ashes, Gentley's Last Stand and four-part drama The Take from the novel by Martina Cole on Sky1. Evans also starred in Sparkle alongside Bob Hoskins and Stockard Channing (2007). He also portrayed Kurt Cobain in the Roy Smiles play Kurt and Sid, at the Trafalgar Studios, opposite Danny Dyer as Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious.

In 2012, Evans also played the role of new pupil Daniel in BBC legal drama Silk alongside Maxine Peake and starred in the ITV series The Last Weekend.

Endeavour

Main article: Endeavour

In August 2011, it was announced that he would be playing the young Inspector Morse in Endeavour, which would focus on the detective's early career.

An initial episode was broadcast on 2 January 2012 which, since successfully received, resulted in recommissioning for four new episodes by ITV, with filming commencing in summer of 2012 and airing from 14 April 2013. It was announced on 5 June 2013 that because of the phenomenal success of the first series and consistently high ratings, ITV had recommissioned Endeavour for a second series of four episodes. Filming began in Oxford towards the end of 2013 and the series began airing on 30 March 2014. On 24 September 2014, ITV confirmed that a third series of Endeavour has been ordered for January 2016.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Awards
2002	Teachers	John Paul (J.P) Keating
2003	The Boys from County Clare	Teddy
2004	Being Julia	Tom Fennel
2006	Gone	Alex
2007	Inspector George Gently	Laurie Elton	Pilot episode: George Gently
2009	The Take	Jimmy Jackson
2009	Dread	Quaid
2011	Wreckers	Nick
2012	Whitechapel	Sly Driscoll
	Silk	Daniel Lomas
2012—present	Endeavour	Detective Constable Endeavour Morse
2012	The Last Weekend	Ian
2014	War Book	Tom
2015	The Scandalous Lady W	Sir Richard Worsley

External links

• Shaun Evans at the Internet Movie Database