1. Shaun Evans is best known for playing a young Endeavour Morse in the ITV drama series Endeavour and Coxswain Elliot Glover in Vigil.
13 Facts About Shaun Evans
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Shaun Evans's father worked as a taxi driver and his mother was a hospital worker.
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Shaun Evans has a brother who is 11 months his senior.
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Shaun Evans gained a scholarship to St Edward's College in Liverpool's West Derby suburb, which he attended from 1991 to 1998 and where he began acting in school productions.
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Shaun Evans completed a course with the National Youth Theatre in London before fully moving to London around the age of 18 to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
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On television, Shaun Evans was featured in the 2002 docudrama The Project and was seen as the Earl of Southampton in the miniseries The Virgin Queen, which premiered in November 2005 on Masterpiece Theatre on PBS in the US before airing on the BBC in January 2006.
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Shaun Evans starred in Sparkle alongside Bob Hoskins and Stockard Channing.
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Shaun Evans played Lawrence Elton in the Acorn Series, Inspector George Gently, S1, E1; "Gently Go Man" 2007.
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In 2012, Shaun Evans played the role of new pupil Daniel in the BBC legal drama Silk alongside Maxine Peake and starred in the ITV series The Last Weekend.
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In 2021, Shaun Evans starred as Elliott Glover, coxswain of the fictional submarine HMS Vigil, in the TV series of the same name.
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In September 2024, it is announced that Shaun Evans will portray as John Hughes in the new ITV espionage thriller, Betrayal.
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Shaun Evans directed three episodes of the BBC medical drama Casualty which aired on 8 July 2017, and 19 and 26 May 2018.
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Shaun Evans directed four episodes of Endeavour: 'Apollo' in series 6, which aired on 17 February 2019; 'Oracle' in series 7, which aired on 9 February 2020; and 'Striker' in series 8, which aired on 12 September 2021.