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Shaun Prendergast (born 1958) is an English actor and writer.
Career
He was born in North Shields and holds a BA Hons from Bretton Hall College. He was an actor and playwright in residence for Northumberland Theatre Company before joining the
BBC Radio
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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. in 2020 he published his first novel, Benny Blue Eyes.
Selected TV credits
Prendergast has appeared in ''The Bill'', ''EastEnders'', ''Holby City'', ''Hotel Babylon'', ''The Lightning Kid'', ''Heartbeat'', ''New Tricks'', ''Emmerdale'' and ''Collision'' by Anthony Horowitz. In summer 2010, he filmed an episode of ''
Tracy Beaker Returns
''Tracy Beaker Returns'' is a British television programme. Based upon the novels by Jacqueline Wilson, it is the sequel series to '' The Story of Tracy Beaker''. The series stars Dani Harmer reprising her role as protagonist Tracy Beaker. T ...
'', which aired on
CBBC Channel
CBBC (initialised as Children's BBC and also known as the CBBC Channel) is a British free-to-air public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is also the brand used for all BBC content for children aged 7– ...
.
As well as appearances in ''
Casualty
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'', ''
Doctors
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* Doctor (title), the holder of an accredited academic degree
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** Physician
** Surgeon
** Dentist
** Veterinary physician
** Optometrist
*Other roles
** ...
'', ''
WPC 56
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'', and ''
Father Brown
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'' he plays the role of Robert Bain, the Head of Education for East Kilbride, in the drama series ''
Waterloo Road''. In 2020, he appeared in an episode of the
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soap opera ''
Doctors
Doctor or The Doctor may refer to:
Personal titles
* Doctor (title), the holder of an accredited academic degree
* A medical practitioner, including:
** Physician
** Surgeon
** Dentist
** Veterinary physician
** Optometrist
*Other roles
** ...
'' as
Archie Matthews.
He appeared again in 2021 as
Doug Abbott.
Selected film credits
* ''The Stepdad''
* ''Henry V''
* ''Mary Shelley's Frankenstein''
* ''In the Bleak Midwinter''
* ''Frozen''
Stage credits
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 Steve Marmion is an English theatre director. He trained at the University of Glamorgan and the Welsh College of Music and Drama. He was the artistic director of the Soho Theatre, having taken over from Lisa Goldman in 2010. He is a former associate ...
. The production was given excellent reviews, with the ''
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'' declaring that Shaun, in his pantomime debut, had created the 'finest, funniest pantomime Dame in London'. In early 2010, the role of Mr Boo in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice by Jim Cartright at the Vaudeville Theatre, London. Directed by Terry Johnson. Glamour by Stephen Lowe at Nottingham Playhouse directed by Bill Alexander.
And Shaun in Searching for Tom Hadaway for Live Theatre, which Shaun also wrote and directed.
*''
Hamlet
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'',
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Much Ado about Nothing
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Twelfth Night
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As You Like It
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'' (for Kenneth Branagh’s Renaissance Company national tour and Phoenix Theatre, West End)),
*''The Glee Club'' (Bush and the Duchess Theatre, West End),
*''
Macbeth
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'' and the Sam Shephard season at the BAC and
* ''A Going Concern'' at Hampstead Theatre Club.
* '' Waitress'' at the ''Adelphi Theatre'' London
Other theatre includes ''Grace'', ''Twelfth Night'', ''Candida'', (NTC), ''Dracula'', ''Spot the Lady'', ''A View from the Bridge'', ''Strippers'', (Newcastle Playhouse), ''Twelve Tales of Tyneside'' (Live Theatre), ''Sisterly Feelings'' (Manchester Library Theatre), ''As You Like it'' (Nottingham Playhouse), ''The Miser'' (Salisbury).
Radio credits
''
Westway'', ''The Goldfish Bowl'', ''Phoenix England'', ''The Bee-keeper’s Apprentice'', ''
The Little World of Don Camillo
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'', ''My Uncle Freddie'' and over two hundred individual plays.
Writing credits
Television and radio writing includes
2006–2007 Multi-episodes of ''The Roman Mysteries'', ''Rocket Man'' (BBC) as well as ''The Lightning Kid'' (BBC)
Other: Multi- episodes of – My Parents Are Aliens (GRANADA), EastEnders (BBC), Grafters (CENTRAL), Equinox (BBC), Microsoap (BBC), Soldier, Soldier (CENTRAL).
Film includes
''Rebel Zone'' (BBC Films)
The Stepdad,
Henry V,
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,
In the Bleak Midwinter,
Frozen,
Bye Bye Columbus.
Harrigan,
Stupid Cults,
Rudolph & His New Friend Frosty ''Mikey The Canary''
Theatre writing includes
''Potter’s Wheel'', ''The Firefawn Trilogy'', ''A Fine and Private Place'', ''Distinguished Service'', ''Little Victories'', ''The Green Eyed Monster of Ecrovid'', ''The Witches’ Kitchen'', ''Twelve Tales of Tyneside'', ''Poles Apart'', ''Come and Make Eyes at me'', ''Karl Marx Live in Concert'', ''The True History of the Tragic Life and triumphant Death of Julia Pastrana'', ''the Ugliest Woman in the World'', ''The False Corpse'' and ''The Biggest Adventure in the World''.
In 2013 'The True History of the Tragic Life and Triumphant Death of Julia Pastrana, the Ugliest Woman in the World' was presented at the Brick Theatre in Brooklyn and the Tympanic Theatre in Chicago. Earlier that year, Julia Pastrana's body had been returned from Oslo to her birthplace in Mexico. An article in ''The New York Times'' credited Prendergast's play as being the inspiration for the campaign to have Julia Pastrana repatriated to her birthplace.
Adaptations include
''Cinderella'', ''Beauty and the Beast'', ''The Giant Prince'', ''The Three Musketeers'', ''The Canterville Ghost'' and ''The Day of the Triffids''.
Television includes
''The Lightning Kid'', ''Rocket Man'', ''Soldier, Soldier'', ''EastEnders'', ''Grafters'', ''Equinox'', Sunshine and Zak in "Tugs", ''My Parents are Aliens'' and ''Microsoap''. He also played a small role in Tracy Beaker Returns as the Council Manager.
Radio includes
''Open Mike'', ''Kiss Me Quick'', ''Only the Good Die Young'', ''Phoenix England'', ''A Fake’s Progress'', ''Travellin' Light, the Bee-Keeper's Apprentice'', "Spread a Little Happiness" and ''The Goldfish Bowl''.
References
External links
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Living people
People from North Shields
Male actors from Tyne and Wear
Writers from Tyne and Wear
1958 births
Pantomime dames
English writers
English male television actors
English male film actors
English male radio actors
English male stage actors
English male voice actors