Will Sharpe

Will Sharpe
Born	William Tomomori Fukuda Sharpe (1986-09-22) 22 September 1986 Camden, 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
2016	The Darkest Universe	Zac	Feature Film - Actor, Writer, Director
2012	Dirk Gently	David Cho	TV series - Episode 2
2012	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
2009	Cockroach	Kiyoshi	Writer, director
2008	The Wrong Door	Various	Three episodes
2008	Never Mind the Buzzcocks	—	Writer

References

↑ Macnab, Geoffrey (2011-10-03). "First Night: Black Pond, Raindance Festival, London". The Independent. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
↑ Aitkenhead, Decca (2011-09-26). "Chris Langham: 'Everyone wants to see me working again, but nobody wants to hire me'". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
↑ Brown, Maggie (23 April 2016). "Unknown writer gets his big TV break with dark English comedy". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 April 2016.

External links

Official website
Will Sharpe at the Internet Movie Database

Footlights presidents

1886–99	1886: F. W. Mortimer 1887: J. J. Withers 1890: O. Browning 1891: C. M. Rae 1892: O. Browning 1894–95: O. Browning 1896–97: H. C. Pollitt 1898: M. V. Leveaux 1899: S. W. Burgess

1900–49	1900: O. J. Goedecker 1901: R. J. White 1902: E. K. Fordham 1904–05: G. S. Heathcote 1906–07: H. Rottenburg 1908: J. S. Murray 1909: L. B. Tillard 1910–11: A. R. Inglis 1912: P. D. Ravenscroft 1913: C. A. A. Douglas Hamilton 1914: M. Cutherston 1919–20: B. D. Nicholson 1921: M. D. Lyon 1923: F. E. Powell 1924: J. A. C. Barradale 1925: H. J. Warrender 1926: J. D. Houison Craufurd 1927: H. C. Martineau 1928: H. E. R. Mitchell 1929: J. Fell Clark 1930: J. C. Byrom 1931: R. S. Hill 1932: P. E. Lyon 1933: J. A. Coates 1934: M. Killanin 1935: H. Lee 1936: P. Crane 1937: A. E. P. Robison 1938: P. B. Meyer 1939: R. C. G. St L. Ricketts 1947–48: D. C. Orders 1949: S. W. Phipps

1950–99	1950: A. Vale 1951: I. Kellie 1952: A. Davidson 1953: P. Firth 1954: L. Bricusse 1955: B. Marber 1956: T. Berington 1957: A. Mitchell 1958: P. Stroud 1959: A. C. Slade 1960: P. E. Cook 1961: P. Bellwood 1962: R. Atkins 1963: T. J. Brooke-Taylor 1964: D. G. Garden 1965: E. Idle 1966: A. Mayer 1967: C. James 1968: J. James-Moore 1969: B. Brown 1970: A. Edwards 1971: R. MacKenna 1972: S. Thorn 1973: R. Benton 1974: J. Canter 1975: C. S. Anderson 1976: C. Keightley 1977: J. T. Mulville 1978: M. Bergman 1979: R. G. Bathurst 1980: J. Ravens 1981: J. H. C. Laurie 1982: A. D. J. Slattery 1983: N. Mullarkey 1984: N. Hancock 1985: K. Crew 1986: N. Golson 1987: T. Scott 1988: P. Bradshaw 1989: R. Kenyon 1990: H. Naylor 1991: S. E. Perkins 1992: D. Gaster 1993: M. Evans 1994: R. Thorogood 1995: C. Hartill 1996: D. J. S. Mitchell 1997: S. Moule 1998: R. E. Ayoade 1999: K. Baker

2000–present	2000: M. Green 2001: J. Morris 2002: E. C. E. Weeks 2003: S. Golaszewski 2004: E. Riches 2005: R. Shirley 2006: S. A. Bird 2007: W. T. F. Sharpe 2008: S. Sword 2009: A. Roberts 2010: A. Tedder 2011: M. Fiddaman 2012: P. Wang 2013: H. Michell 2014: B. Pope 2015: T. Fraser 2016: O. Taylor 2017: D. Mapletoft

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