Shaun Parkes

Shaun Parkes is an English actor of film, television and theater who began studying drama at 16 and later trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After supporting work on stage and screen, he broke through in Human Traffic (1999) as Koop, and went on to appear in The Mummy Returns (2001), Notes on a Scandal (2006) and Clubbed (2008). He played Frank Crichlow, owner of the Mangrove restaurant, in Steve McQueen's Small Axe, a role that brought him a lead actor nomination at the 2021 British Academy Television Awards. His television credits include Lock, Stock..., Servants, Casanova and Doctor Who, and he led the BBC Two detective series Moses Jones. On stage he appeared in Blue/Orange in the West End, Elmina's Kitchen and Titus Andronicus at Shakespeare's Globe, and since 2001 he has recorded dance tracks with the production team AudioFly.