Shaun Prendergast
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Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: North Shields, Northumberland, England, UK
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Birthday: December 05, 1958
Age: 66 years old
Gender: Male
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Fast Track: No Limits
Overview: An action movie centered around a group of street racers.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-21
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TUGS: A Bigg Retrospective
Overview: TUGS: A Bigg Retrospective is the definitive film telling the story of how the 1989 cult classic series 'TUGS' was brought to our TV screens, and how it survived beyond its premature end.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-04
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Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Overview: The tale begins when a brother and sister are separated in a shipwreck, but survive to be washed up on the shore of Illyria. The sister, Viola, disguises herself as a man and takes service with Duke Orsino, who has fallen in love with Lady Olivia. Entrusted with pleading on her master's behalf, Viola is utterly disconcerted to find that Olivia has fallen in love with her. Thus begins the confusion of this delightful comedy.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-30
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Wallpaper Warrior
Overview: A dramatization of incidents involving Eddie Horner, a factory worker active in union politics radicalized to murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-02
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Remainder
Overview: A London man who loses his memory when he's struck by a falling object develops a way to reconstruct his past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-08
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Frozen
Overview: It's two years since the mysterious disappearance of Kath Swarbrick's older sister Annie, but Kath remains haunted by a need to know what happened. When police investigations wind down, Kath continues the search herself. She gets nowhere until she steals some CCTV footage of her sister on her final day. Visiting the spot where Annie was filmed, Kath becomes convinced she has found a portal to another reality and from this portal Kath is trying to say something.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-12
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Henry V
Overview: In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-05
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Overview: Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-04
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In the Bleak Midwinter
Overview: Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-29
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I, Daniel Blake
Overview: A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-21
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Peterloo
Overview: An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reforms and protest against rising levels of poverty.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-01
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London Unplugged
Overview: A portmanteau exploration of disparate characters scattered across London, many of whose lives intersect unpredictably. A refreshing take on the complexities, contradictions and compromises of modern living in the greatest City on Earth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-05
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Harrigan
Overview: Amongst the desperation and fear growing in a crime ridden estate in northern England, one man becomes embroiled into saving what community life exists.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-20
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The Vanishing Man
Overview: While Nick Cameron is returning to England from the continent with mysterious cargo in the cabin section of his small aircraft, he is thrown off-course by a severe electrical storm and loses radio contact. To his surprise and horror, he is arrested upon landing and accused of being a traitor in connection with the cargo he has been carrying - which, unknown to him, contained plutonium. Although he pleads innocent, Nick is not believed and is sentenced to a long term in prison. While in prison, he is subjected to special experimentation at a mysterious laboratory - with one unnerving, and unexpected, side-effect of the experiments being intermittent invisibility. —David McAnally
Genres: Comedy Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-02
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AKA
Overview: In 1970s Britain, 18-year old Dean feels hampered by his working-class background and his family. In order to make something of himself, he assumes another identity and manages to enter high society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-19
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Wicked
Overview: In the land of Oz, ostracized and misunderstood green-skinned Elphaba is forced to share a room with the popular aristocrat Glinda at Shiz University, and the two's unlikely friendship is tested as they begin to fulfill their respective destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-20
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