Will Sharpe

William Tomomori Fukuda Sharpe (born 22 September 1986) is an English actor, writer, and director. After writing for comedy shows and appearing in the medical drama Casualty (2009–2010), he made his feature directorial debut with Black Pond (2011). He gained further acclaim for his Channel 4 comedy-drama Flowers (2016). He then starred in the BBC Two series Defending the Guilty (2018–2019) and Giri/Haji (2019), the latter of which earned him a British Academy Television Award. Sharpe went on to direct the film The Electrical Life of Louis Wain and the Sky Atlantic miniseries Landscapers (both 2021). He also starred in the second season of The White Lotus (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Will Sharpe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

The White Lotus

Follow the exploits of various guests and employees at an exclusive tropical resort over the span of a week as with each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel’s cheerful employees and the idyllic locale itself.

Release Date2021-07-11

Charactersd Ethan Spiller

Episode Count7

Vote Count1154

Sherlock

A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.

Release Date2010-07-25

Charactersd Corporal Lyons

Episode Count1

Vote Count5864

Casualty

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

Release Date1986-09-06

Charactersd Yuki Reid

Episode Count95

Vote Count83

Too Much

When a heartbroken New Yorker moves to London hoping for a love story, she falls for an indie musician who's anything but the typical romantic hero.

Release Date2025-07-10

Charactersd Felix Remen

Episode Count10

Vote Count19

Emmanuelle

While traveling, Emmanuelle meets Kei, a man who constantly eludes her. Though she indulges in the many alluring distractions, she can’t shake their chance encounter. Will she submit to her basest desires to forge a deeper relationship?

Release Date2024-09-25

Charactersd Kei

Vote Count67

Giri/Haji

Soulful thriller set in Tokyo and London, exploring the butterfly effect of a single murder across two cities. A dark, witty and daring examination of morality and redemption.

Release Date2019-10-17

Charactersd Rodney

Episode Count8

Vote Count150

A Real Pain

Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.

Release Date2024-11-01

Charactersd James

Vote Count1102

The House

Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.

Release Date2022-01-14

Charactersd Elias (voice)

Vote Count1073

Prodigies

Prodigies

Didi and Ren are two ex-child prodigies who have been together since they were children. Now in their early 30s, they are starting to question whether their very ordinary existence is living up to the extraordinary promise of their childhood. Inevitably, they find themselves asking the same questions of their relationship. As individual hopes and needs feed into and conflict with their shared lives, the series challenges the fallacy at the heart of romantic storytelling — that the tale is over when the heroes get together. In life, surely, that is just the beginning?

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd Ren

W1A

The follow-up to 'Twenty Twelve' as Ian Fletcher takes up the position of 'Head of Values' at the BBC. His task is to clarify, define, or re-define the core purpose of the BBC across all its functions and to position it confidently for the future, in particular for Licence Fee Renegotiation and Charter Renewal in 2016 and 2017 respectively.

Release Date2014-03-19

Charactersd Michael Chung

Episode Count2

Vote Count39

Flowers

Dark comedy about the eccentric members of the Flowers family. Maurice and Deborah are barely together but yet to divorce. They live with Maurice's batty mother and their maladjusted twin children.

Release Date2016-04-25

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Charactersd Shun

Episode Count6

Vote Count88

Amadeus

Amadeus

Set within the musical hub of bustling Vienna at the end of the 18th century, twenty-five-year-old Amadeus arrives in the city no longer a child and determined to carve his own path. Recently unemployed and without the management of his father, Amadeus finds an unlikely ally in a young singer who will become his wife, fiery Constanze Weber Mozart. Her connections help bring him into the orbit of the court composer Antonio Salieri, setting the three of them on a collision course that will ultimately define their lives and their legacies for years to come.

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Episode Count5

Brian Pern: A Life in Rock

Brian Pern is an ageing rock star and former front-man of ground breaking progressive rock group Thotch. Like many artists of his age, rather than make new music, he spends more time trying to save the planet (including his campaign to teach gorillas how to Skype). Now, the BBC have asked him to front a major new documentary where he presents his guide to The Life Of Rock from prehistoric man to the present day.

Release Date2014-02-10

Charactersd Young Pat Quid

Episode Count1

Vote Count7

Dirk Gently

Detective Dirk Gently operates based on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.

Release Date2012-03-05

Charactersd David Cho

Episode Count1

Vote Count79

Defending the Guilty

Will Packham is an idealistic pupil barrister - or idealistic for now. Can Will hold onto his principles and prove he has what it takes?

Release Date2018-09-19

Charactersd Will

Episode Count6

Vote Count11

Black Pond

The Thompson family is accused of murder when a stranger dies at their dinner table. Six months later, family friend Tim visits freelance therapist Dr. Eric Sacks and the story finds it's way to the press. The facts are bent and the details spun as the Thompsons become known to the public as 'The Family of Killers'.

Release Date2011-11-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Tim Tanaka

Vote Count21

The Darkest Universe

A romantic comedy set in space, or - to be more specific - planet Earth which follows world-weary banker Zac on his search for his eccentric sister, Alice, who goes missing while on a narrowboat trip with her new boyfriend.

Release Date2016-11-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Zac Pratt

Vote Count10

Cockroach

Kiyoshi's work as a pest control man leads him to a mysteriously deserted house. Then on his 20th birthday he receives a letter from his dead grandfather telling him that he is the Messiah.

Release Date2009-10-30

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Charactersd Kiyoshi

Vote Count3

The One Show

A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.

Release Date2006-08-14

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count28

The Jonathan Ross Show

The Jonathan Ross Show is a British chat show presented by Jonathan Ross. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2011 and currently airs on Saturday evenings following the conclusion of Ross' BBC One chat show, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, in July 2010.

Release Date2011-09-03

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count23

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches

This documentary showcases a number of new clips which have recently come to light from sketches which were thought to have been lost forever, some not seen for over 50 years, plus rare footage of routines performed in Australia when Cook and Moore made two episodes of their show, Not Only... But Also..., for the country back in 1971. Rob Brydon narrates this very special programme as Pete and Dud fans, friends and colleagues watch these newly discovered clips in the studio for the very first time. The programme includes contributions from Not Only... But Also... producer Dick Clement, Pete and Dud collaborator Barry Humphries, and long-time fans Richard Ayoade, Josie Lawrence, Will Sharpe and Ronnie Wood as they enjoy the sketches and reflect on the career of one of Britain's best-loved comedy partnerships.

Release Date2016-12-31

Charactersd Self

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.

Release Date2021-10-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count473

Landscapers

A seemingly ordinary British couple become the focus of an extraordinary investigation when two dead bodies are discovered in the back garden of a house in Nottingham.

Release Date2021-12-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count182

Absolute Surrender

This is the fictional story of a young Japanese American man called Frank Sugiyama who, after Pearl Harbor, is separated from his white American girlfriend Grace Williams. He has always dreamed of a future with Grace, to buy a house together and to start a family. He is sent to an incarceration camp and, on the way, meets Japanese American Mai Ikeda, who is with her mother, auntie and two young children. Mai's husband, Sam Ikeda, has been taken to a higher security camp because of his work running a bookshop that sells goods imported from Japan. In camp, Frank and Mai make friends and Frank becomes a sort of surrogate father to her children. This friendship deepens into something more complicated and romantic, but both are promised to other people...

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

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