Will Sharpe
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| Will Sharpe | |
|---|---|
| Born | William Tomomori Fukuda Sharpe 22 September 1986 Camden,[citation needed] London, England |
| Occupation | Actor, writer, director |
| Years active | 1998-present |
William Tomomori Fukuda "Will" Sharpe (born 22 September 1986) is an English-Japanese actor, writer and director.
Background
Sharpe read Classics at the University of Cambridge, where he was the president of the Footlights Revue. He graduated in 2008 and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company for their 2008/2009 season. Sharpe spent a year at the RSC and appeared in such plays as The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice and The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes, in which he played a young Isaac Newton. He played the character of Yuki Reid in BBC medical drama Casualty.
In 2009, he directed and co-wrote, along with his friend Tom Kingsley, a short film Cockroach. The pair's first feature-length film, Black Pond, starring Chris Langham, was shown at The Prince Charles Cinema from November 2011.[1][2] Shortly after, he was co-nominated for a BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for the film.[3]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Flowers | Shun | TV series - Actor, Writer, Director |
| 2012 | Dirk Gently | David Cho | TV series - Episode 2 |
| 2011 | Sherlock | Lyons | The Hounds of Baskerville |
| 2011 | Black Pond | Tim | Feature Film |
| 2011 | Sirens | Student | Channel 4 Comedy Drama |
| 2009 | Casualty | Yuki Reid | 2009-2011 |
| Cockroach | Kiyoshi | Writer, director | |
| 2008 | The Wrong Door | Various | Three episodes |
| 2008 | Never Mind the Buzzcocks | — | Writer |
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- 1986 births
- Living people
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- English male stage actors
- English male television actors
- English television directors
- English television writers
- Male actors from London
- People from Camden Town
- Writers from London
- 21st-century English male actors
