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