Shaun Evans is again on our screens in ITV’s new true-crime drama, Till I Kill You, which sees the Endeavour star play serial killer John Sweeney. He stars reverse Motherland‘s Anna Maxwell Martin who portrays nurse Delia Balmer within the four-partner, which follows her terrifying ordeal after realising her boyfriend of three years is a assassin.
Primarily based on Delia’s 2017 memoir Dwelling with a Serial Killer, the sequence depicts the pair’s relationship, from their first assembly in a London pub in 1991 to the second John attacked her with an axe.
Shaun, 44, has grow to be a family identify throughout the nation since starring in ITV’s Endeavour, which ran from 2012 to 2023. However how a lot are you aware about his life away from the cameras? Discover out all we all know in regards to the star…
Shaun’s adolescence and TV profession
Shaun was born on 6 March 1980 in Liverpool to Irish mother and father. His dad was a taxi driver whereas his mom was a well being care employee.
© ITV/ShutterstockThe actor educated on the Guildhall Faculty of Music and Drama earlier than occurring to star in Channel 4’s Lecturers and The Virgin Queen.
© ITVAll through his profession he has additionally appeared in additional than his justifiable share of crime drama, together with Whitechapel, Ashes to Ashes and Inspector George Gently, giving him good follow earlier than touchdown his breakthrough function as Endeavour. He is since appeared within the first season of the BBC drama, Vigil.
Shaun Evans’ love life and well-known ex-girlfriend
Though we all know every part about Shaun’s performing profession, the star does are likely to maintain his private life out of the highlight, and consequently, his present relationship standing is unknown. He additionally is not formally on any social media websites, together with Fb, Twitter and Instagram.
Nevertheless, we do know that Shaun was beforehand in a relationship with Irish musician Andrea Corr, who’s famed for singing lead vocals within the pop rock band The Corrs.
The couple first crossed paths on the set of the romance movie The Boys from County Clare in 2003 and dated for 4 years.
© Julian Makey/ShutterstockOpening up about their cut up throughout an interview with the Irish Unbiased in 2007, a 12 months after their break up, Andrea, 50, mentioned: “I do not look again and suppose, ‘Oh God, I wasted 4 years.’ I do have religion.
“I’d not step into marriage flippantly. I’m not married by my very own alternative, not as a result of nobody wished to marry me,” she added.
Andrea wrote her hit observe, Ten Toes Excessive, about her and Shaun’s break up. Talking in regards to the track, which featured on her 2007 album of the identical identify, she mentioned it is about making each other really feel ten ft excessive earlier than turning into claustrophobic inside the relationship.
© Photograph: Getty Pictures“I suppose what I am attempting to say is that you just’re imprisoned. And it isn’t him doing it. He is in jail too,” Andrea defined. “It is if you’re not inspiring one another anymore.
The singer continued: “It is the actually unhappy level of a relationship if you nonetheless love one another however it’s over; however you must admit it is over. And you’ll’t blame the individual. It will be simpler if you happen to might go ‘You probably did this’ or they may go ‘You probably did that’. It’s nearly sadder when a relationship ends when there is no such thing as a blame. It ran its course.”
Shaun has beforehand spoken about maintaining his personal life away from the cameras, beforehand telling Ox in a Field: “[Endeavour has] little impression on my life which I like as a result of I’m not an individual who has a public persona, or a profile on social media. I simply love to do my job after which go house and keep it up with my life.”
Nevertheless, the actor has beforehand joked about having a “crush” on Patti Smith after the American singer revealed that she loved watching Endeavour. He advised Belfast Telegraph in 2015: “I’ve bought the largest crush on Patti Smith. I discover her actually inspiring. Her pictures are unbelievable, the poetry that she writes, and simply her way of life.
© Stefania D’Alessandro“I am completely gushing now, however as quickly as I completed one in every of her books, I began it once more, as a result of I used to be so intoxicated with the environment of it. She’s one thing else.”
Clearly a giant fan, Shaun was noticed within the crowd at Patti’s live performance at Somerset Home in London in July this 12 months.
