Shaun Evans
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Shaun Evans (born March 6, 1980) is a British actor.
Born in Liverpool, Evans completed a course with the National Youth Theatre before relocating to London at the age of eighteen [1] to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama [2]. His first major role was that of gay 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. Additional screen credits include Being Julia, The Situation, Cashback, and Gone. Boy A and Telstar are scheduled to be released in 2008, and he currently is filming Princess Ka'iulani for release in 2009.
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.
