福田知盛 Will Sharpe

Will Sharpe (born 22 September 1986) is a British-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 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, screens at The Prince Charles Cinema from November 2011.

FilmographyYear Title Role Notes

2011 Sherlock, Series 2 Lyons BBC TV Series

2011 Black Pond Tim Feature Film

2011 Sirens Student Channel 4 Comedy Drama

2009 Casualty Yuki Reid

Cockroach Kiyoshi Writer, director

2008 The Wrong Door Various Three episodes

2008 Never Mind the Buzzcocks — Writer