Brennan Clost

**Brennan Clost** (born October 20, 1994) is a Canadian actor. He portrays Shane McRae on Netflix's Tiny Pretty Things.

## Biography

Brennan Clost attended The Juilliard School in New York City, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. He trained with The Barrow Group Theatre Company and School in NYC, LB Acting Studio in Toronto, as well as various dance studios across Southern Ontario. Brennan began his performance career at a young age with a big heart for dance. In pursuit of his dream to be a professional dancer, Brennan was driven by his intense desire to never give up. He has acclimated himself to a highly competitive and versatile dance career. At the age of 16, a talent agent scouted Brennan after seeing him perform at a dance competition. Before the agent would sign Brennan to his roster, he sent him for a trial audition. The audition was for the Temple Street Productions series, The Next Step. During his time at Juilliard, Brennan was a lead character on The Next Step for the first five seasons, airing internationally.

## Credits

### Actor

#### Season 1

* Corps
* Range of Motion
* Class Act
* Dance Dance Revolution
* Split Sole
* Joie de Vivre
* Catch and Release
* Relevé
* It's Not the Walking, It's the Rising
* Push Comes to Shove

## Trivia

* Brennan originally auditioned for the role of Oren Lennox, before receiving an email from his agent wanting him to read for the role of Shane McRae instead. Brennan did read for Shane but thought the producers wanted him for Oren instead. It wasn't until the callbacks that the producer stopped him mid-audition to ask him to read for Shane. They didn't ask him to memorize the lines and instead asked him to read off-script. He did and a few days later he was offered the part of Shane.
* He compares the cutthroat competition that he endured at Julliard to the world at The Archer School of Ballet, citing that the show did a great job of portraying the world of ballet.
* When speaking on the importance of not only playing an openly gay character such as Shane but also on the impact it had on him, Brennan was quoted saying, "*Actually, a lot about Shane’s story through the season was challenging for me: it brought me up against a lot of points of resistance within myself that I had to overcome to do justice to the character. I remember some days standing in my trailer in a sequined skirt and eye-liner and getting emotional and scared to go out and work, because those are things I would have loved to have tried growing up, but got bullied for so badly. I’m so excited for the young Brennans to see this character on TV – I needed this character on TV.*"
* Brennan is a natural brunette, so he had to die his hair bleach blonde for *Tiny Pretty Things*. The process took seven and a half hours at a professional salon.

## External links

* Brennan Clost at the Internet Movie Database
* Follow Brennan Clost (@brennanclost) on Twitter
* Follow Brennan Clost (@brennanclost) on Instagram

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://attitude.co.uk/article/brennan-clost-on-netflixs-tiny-pretty-things-racy-sex-scenes-and-why-hes-no-longer-labelling-his-sexuality-1/24205/
2. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/B06HySgHl\_3/