Background
Evans was born and raised in Liverpool, Merseyside, where his father worked as a taxi driver and his mother was employed as a hospital health care worker
Evans was born and raised in Liverpool, Merseyside, where his father worked as a taxi driver and his mother was employed as a hospital health care worker
Evans gained a scholarship to Saint Edward"s College, which he attended from 1991 to 1998, and where he began acting in school productions. He completed a course with the National Youth Theatre before moving to London at the age of 17-18 to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Evans" family is from Northern Ireland. He has a brother who is eleven months older than he. The following year he made his feature film debut in The Boys from County Clare, starring alongside Bernard Hill, Colm Meaney and Andrea Correspondent.
Additional screen credits include Being Julia, The Situation, Cashback, Gone, Boy A, Telstar: The Joe Meek Story, Princess Kaiulani and Clive Barker"s horror, 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 Public Broadcasting Service in the United States before airing on the British Broadcasting Corporation in January 2006. His stage work includes a United Kingdom tour of the award-winning play Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall.
Recent television appearances include Murder City, British Broadcasting Corporation"s Ashes to Ashes, Gentley"s Last Stand and 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).
He also 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 British Broadcasting Corporation legal drama Silk alongside Maxine Peake and starred in the Independent Television series The Last Weekend. Endeavour In August 2011, it was announced that he would be playing the young Inspector Morse in Endeavour, which would focus on the detective"s early career. An initial episode was broadcast on 2 January 2012 which, since successfully received, resulted in recommissioning for four new episodes by Independent Television, with filming commencing in summer of 2012 and airing from 14 April 2013.
lieutenant was announced on 5 June 2013 that because of the phenomenal success of the first series and consistently high ratings, Independent Television had recommissioned Endeavour for a second series of four episodes.
Filming began in Oxford towards the end of 2013 and the series began airing on 30 March 2014. On 24 September 2014, Independent Television confirmed that a third series of Endeavour has been ordered for January 2016.