Shaun Blaney

RKA Talent
Actor

London, England

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October 2014

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About Shaun

Professional actor from Northern Ireland - based in London. Represented by RKA Talent (1st Floor, 38a Museum Street, London, WC1A 1LP ,office@, +44 (0) 203 743 3830). Working in TV, Film, theatre, Radio and Voice over.

Co-creator and lead actor in Farr, crime drama originally produced by RTE/Stirling film Television productions which won Best drama series at ITVfest in Vermont (2015), and Best drama Series at Seriesfest Colorado (2015). Shaun received two awards for his portrayal of lead character Michael; Best Actor in a Drama at IAWTVfest Las Vegas (2014) and Best Actor DUBWEBfest Dublin Ireland (2015).

Writer, producer and Director of Short Crime drama Trespasses, which screen at both Devour film Festival Belfast (N.Ire) and the official Belfast Film Festival.

Film Credits include Halo: Nightfall (Scottfree/343), Braxton (What's next), Made in Belfast (KGB), Waiting Game (What's Next), Same Again (Fortune and Glory), Time and Again (Causeway), Before Tomorrow (What's Next), Empire State (Fortune and Glory).

Television credits include Farr (RTE/Stirling TV), Frankenstein Chronicles (ITVencore), Game of Thrones (HBO), Betrayal of Trust (ITV), Dani's Castle (CBBC), Children in Need (BBC).

Theatre credits include Faustus (Green room), Sleep/Eat/Party (Tinderbox), Much Ado about Nothing (Ruff theatre), Measure for Measure (Queen's Players), Inventors (Kaboosh), Cooking with Elvis (Bruiser), Comet (Replay), Closer (Replay), Bliss (Replay), Over the Bridge (Greenshoot).

Gender:
Male

Height:
6'

Body type:
Athletic

Hair:
Short

Hair color:
Brown

Eyes:
Blue

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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Braxton (Horror/thriller, What's Next Films, directed by Leo McGuigan) - Award winning horror feature set in Belfast - Shaun plays Detective Ryan Fenton, rookie cop and lone survivor of the Braxton Butcher's original murderous spree.

Made in Belfast (Feature Film, KGB productions, directed by Paul Kennedy) - Shaun plays Petesy, estranged younger brother to Ciaran McMenamin's Jack Kelly

Farr (RTE/Stirling TV productions) - Michael breaking and entering the Farr family funeral

Credits

Beyond the Lens (2016)
Television (Drama) Actor A series revealing the Irish short film industry and its global prominence. It examines the story behind the story, the filmmaker behind the film.
Time and Again (2016)
Film (Short, Comedy, Drama and Sci-Fi) Actor A child genius enlists his best friend to build a time machine in a foolhardy attempt to escape his distant father and connect with the mother he never knew.
Before Tomorrow (2016)
Film Actor
The Monday Club (2015)
Film (Drama) Actor They were 'Island men' working in the Belfast docks. Danny talks about his old friends and times they shared as a series of stories unravel. We see this played out in pieces by their descendants, helped by Danny, the last surviving member of the club. Belfast is a city full of characters, the Monday Club shares some of them with you. Written by Brian Mulholland
Farr (2015)
Television (Crime) Actor FARR, a crime drama centring on Michael Gallagher, an ambitious young detective promoted to a task force aimed at taking down the city's most dangerous crime family, the Farrs. But when his investigation into the family deepens, a murder of one of the Farrs will push Michael towards a reckoning with his own dark past. As the bodies and betrayals mount, Michael must choose between destroying the Farrs or saving himself.
NESN Next Producer (2015)
Television (Reality-TV) Camera and Electrical Department Add a Plot »
The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015)
Television (Crime, Drama and Mystery) Actor Inspector John Marlott investigates a series of crimes in 19th Century London, which may have been committed by a scientist intent on re-animating the dead.
The Butchering (2015)
Film Actor
Same Again (2014)
Film (Short, Drama and Romance) Actor Three friends on a night out grapple with life, love, sex and secrets.
Waiting Game (2014)
Film (Short, Drama and War) Actor An American solider held captive in war-torn Korea forms an unlikely relationship with a fellow prisoner.
Empire State (2014)
Film (Short, Crime, Drama and Thriller) Actor EMPIRE STATE follows David as a chance encounter with an old friend forces him to choose between two lives.
Halo: Nightfall (2014)
Television (Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi and Thriller) Actor In the 26th Century, the prolonged war between humanity and the fanatical alien alliance the Covenant has ended with a tenuous treaty. Despite the ceasefire, Earth's outer colonies remain vulnerable to the Covenant's covert intrusions. The ONI - Office of Naval Intelligence has been tasked with counterintelligence to beat the Covenant. In Planet Sedra, Commander Jameson Locke and his team witness a Covenant's spacecraft and a Zealot Elite warrior disembarks with a bomb. They unsuccessfully try to stop the alien that explodes the bomb in a mall. They realize that it is a biological attack with an element fatal to humans. Sedran Commander Aiken captures the middleman Axl that tells that the element is obtained from Alpha Halo, where the day longs 16 h and the temperature in the sunlight reaches 482o C. Aiken, Locke and his team head to Halo in the spacecraft Condor with pilot Macer carrying a Havoc weapon to destroy the place. On the arrival, they find two terrorists but are trapped in ... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dani's Castle (2013)
Television Actor In the 18th century, Dani, Jimmy, Esme, Kaitlyn and Gabe fight to fend off enemies from inside Dani's castle. All five of them are locked in the castle while they must confront each other to find out whom they can trust and whom they cannot. Written by GusF
Game of Thrones (2013)
Television (Adventure, Drama, Fantasy and Romance) Actor In the mythical continent of Westeros, several powerful families fight for control of the Seven Kingdoms. As conflict erupts in the kingdoms of men, an ancient enemy rises once again to threaten them all. Meanwhile, the last heirs of a recently usurped dynasty plot to take back their homeland from across the Narrow Sea. Written by Sam Gray
Made in Belfast (2013)
Film (Drama) Actor After his best-selling novel exposes the private lives of his closest friends, Jack Kelly returns home to put right some of the wrongs which included breaking up his best friend's marriage. It won't be easy as his friends won't forget - or forgive!
Brendan Smyth: Betrayal of Trust (2011)
TV Movie (Drama) Actor Dramatisation of the events surrounding the case of abusive priest Father Brendan Smyth.