Shaun Evans - Shaun Evans Actor
Born in Liverpool in 1989 Shaun Evans has been acting on stage, television and in the movies this easy going lad
from Merseyside can easily fool you into believing he is just one of the lads until your start talking about his
real passion, acting. This is where his true abilities shine through as he is able to take on the parts he accepts
and pull them off with such conviction that you would have no idea that he is I fact a quiet unassuming young man
with a bright future in the movies.
The Beginning
 At the age of 16 Shaun Evans enrolled in the National Youth Theater and followed
his dreams of acting, he then went on at the age of 18 to the train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
from which he graduated in 2001.
Shaun Evans got his first big break portraying the gay French teacher Jean Paul Keating in the television series
Teachers for one season. Other television roles have included parts in Murder City, Gently's Last Stand, Ashes to
Ashes and The Virgin Queen.
In each of these television roles Shaun continues to show his versatility as an actor as he has gone from the
television to the big screen and back again as he has striven to take each role and make it his own stamping his
own indelible style on each of them.
Shaun has also spent a fair amount of time in live theater on stage in London and is currently working with
Danny Dyer in a production of Kurt and Sid written by Roy Smiles. However like many aspiring actors it is the
silver screen that calls to him and allows him to show the raw talent for which he has become best known.
The Silver Screen
His first major film debut was The Boys and Girls from County Clare a romantic, musical comedy in which he
costarred with Bernard Hill a fellow Liverpudlian, Com Meany and Andrea Corr. This was the movie in which he proved
that he had what it takes to be a great talent in the making and he has since starred in movies like Being Julia
alongside Jeremy Irons and Annette Bening and Sparkle a British comedy starring Stockard Channing and Bob
Hoskins.
Wanting to explore the darker side of his acting ability led him to a role in the film Boy A, a film about a
young man who has spent the last 14 years of his life locked up behind bars for a murder he committed at the age of
ten. Shaun plays Chris the best friend to the main character of the story portrayed by Andrew Garfield.
The Future
Looking forward currently Shaun is starring at the Trafalgar Studio 2 in the play Kurt and Sid; however he has
three movies coming out in the very near future. The upcoming movies are the historical film Barbarian Princess,
Telstar the biography of Joe Meek and stepping into the horror genre as Quaid in the Clive Barker horror movie
Dread. Expect great things from this talented rising star in the future as his career is just getting started.
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