Acting Evans's first major role was that of French teacher John Paul Keating in the
Channel 4 comedy-drama
Teachers during its second series in 2002. The following year he made his feature film debut in
The Boys from County Clare, starring alongside
Bernard Hill,
Colm Meaney and
Andrea Corr. Additional screen credits include
Sam’s Game,
Being Julia,
The Situation,
Cashback,
Gone,
Boy A,
Telstar: The Joe Meek Story,
Princess Kaiulani and Clive Barker's horror film
Dread. On television, 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. His stage work includes a UK tour of the award-winning play
Blue/Orange by
Joe Penhall. Recent television appearances include
Murder City,
BBC's
Ashes to Ashes, ''Gentley's Last Stand
and the four-part drama The Take from the novel by Martina Cole on Sky1. Evans also starred in Sparkle'' alongside
Bob Hoskins and
Stockard Channing (2007). Shaun played Lawrence Elton in the Acorn Series, Inspector George Gently, S1, E1; "Gently Go Man" 2007. In 2009, he portrayed
Kurt Cobain in the
Roy Smiles play
Kurt and Sid at the
Trafalgar Studios opposite
Danny Dyer as
Sex Pistols bassist
Sid Vicious. In 2012, Evans also 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. Starting in 2012, Evans played the young
Inspector Morse in
Endeavour, which focuses on the detective's early career. The initial episode was broadcast on 2 January 2012.
Endeavour was then recommissioned for nine further series by
ITV. On 23 May 2022, ITV confirmed that
Endeavour would end production after a decade on air with a total of 36 episodes. In January and February 2015, Evans starred as Alex in the
Peter Souter play
Hello/Goodbye, with
Miranda Raison playing his love interest. In 2021, Evans starred as Elliott Glover,
coxswain of the fictional submarine HMS
Vigil, in the TV series of
the same name. In September 2024, it was announced that Evans will portray John Hughes in the new ITV espionage thriller,
Betrayal.
Directing Evans directed three episodes of the
BBC medical drama
Casualty which aired on 8 July 2017, and 19 and 26 May 2018. He also 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. On 22 May 2022, he directed 'Prelude', the first episode of the prequel's ninth and final series which aired on 26 February 2023. ==Filmography==