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My Take
I'll be honest — I came to Shaun Evans late, but once I watched Endeavour I was completely hooked on what he was doing there. Playing a young Morse is a trap role if there ever was one: the shadow of John Thaw is enormous and the fans are fiercely protective, yet Evans found a way to make the character fully his own — brooding, bookish, oddly romantic, always one step away from self-sabotage. There's a quiet intensity to his work that never tips into theatrics, which I think is a Liverpool thing more than an acting-school thing. His turn in Vigil showed he can hold his own in a completely different register too. A genuinely underrated British actor who lets the work do the talking, and I respect that deeply.
Overview
Shaun Evans (born 6 March 1980) is an English actor. He is best known for playing a young Endeavour Morse in the ITV drama series Endeavour and Coxswain Elliot Glover in Vigil.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Shaun Evans
- Name (Japanese)
- ショーン・エヴァンス
- Reading
- しょーん・えゔぁんす
- Born
- March 6, 1980 (age 46)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Monkey
- Origin
- Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / television actor / television director / film actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- St Edward's College
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Actor — see all → · Television actor — see all → · More people from United Kingdom →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.