Cast & creator
Shaun Prendergast
Best known for Ted Lasso, Father Brown, Peak Practice
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.
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film credits
30
television credits
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1988–2024 · acting roles
6.8
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (47)
Showing 47 of 47 credits
Ted Lasso
Paparazzi
2020
Father Brown
George Murray
2013
Peak Practice
Trevor Sharpe
1993
Heartbeat
Ron Tidy
1992Heartbeat
Harry Marvin
1992
Waterloo Road
Robert Bain
2006
Industry
George
2020
Pie in the Sky
Quirke
1994
Soldier Soldier
CSM George Marshall
1991Soldier Soldier
Writer
1991
Wicked
Shiz President
2024
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Sheehan
2002
My Parents Are Aliens
Writer
1999
Hotel Babylon
Daniel
2006
Waiting for God
PC Wilkins
1990
The Afternoon Play
Jerry Parnell
2003
Our Friends in the North
Frankie
1996
The Good Ship Murder
Johnny Taylor
2023
The Basil Brush Show
David's Father
2002
Microsoap
Writer
1998
(All Quiet on the) Preston Front
Vic the Railwayman
1994
Cavegirl
Writer
2002
WPC 56
Henry Fuller
2013
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
Ned Hepworth
2003
55 Degrees North
Frank Galley
2004
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Ship's Crew
1994
I, Daniel Blake
At the Sawmill
2016
TUGS
Sunshine / Zak (voice)
1989
Dark Angel
Sgt Hutchinson
2016
The Vanishing Man
Gimson
1997
Henry V
Bates
1989
Fast Track: No Limits
Heinrich Glietsch
2008Number 10
Way to Go
Grant
2013
Men of the World
1994
In the Bleak Midwinter
Mule Train Man
1995
Harrigan
Atkins
2013
Peterloo
Magistrate Bolt
2018
Remainder
DI Merril
2015
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Fabian
1988
Frozen
Man in pub
2005
AKA
Prison officer
2002
TUGS: A Bigg Retrospective
Self
2023
London Unplugged
Bithem
2018
The Vanishing Man
Gimson
1997
The Hole
Writer
2017
Wallpaper Warrior
D.C. Porter
1992