Shaun Evans

Shaun Evans is an English actor from Liverpool who trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama after a course with the National Youth Theatre. In 2002 he took his first major role, in the Channel 4 comedy-drama Teachers, as John Paul Keating, a French teacher. His feature debut was The Boys from County Clare. His film work includes Being Julia (2004), Cashback (2006), Gone (2006), Boy A (2007), Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2008) and the horror film Dread (2009). On television he played the Earl of Southampton in The Virgin Queen and later appeared in Ashes to Ashes and The Take. On stage he portrayed Kurt Cobain in Kurt and Sid. From 2012 he played the young Endeavour Morse in the ITV drama Endeavour, which was recommissioned for nine further series, and in 2021 he played Elliott Glover in Vigil. He has also directed episodes of Casualty and Endeavour.