Will Sharpe

Will Sharpe is the rare multi-hyphenate whose hyphens all feel necessary. Plenty of actors direct as a vanity project; Sharpe writes, directs, and performs as if each discipline were feeding the others. Earning a BAFTA nomination for Black Pond, a micro-budget debut, told me early on that he understood tone, that uncomfortable space between comedy and grief, better than most established filmmakers. His Japanese-British heritage gives his work a distinctive in-between quality, an outsider's precision about English awkwardness. I rate him as one of the most interesting creative minds of his generation in British screen culture, and I suspect his best directorial work is still ahead of him.

Name (English)

Will Sharpe

Name (Japanese)

ウィル・シャープ

Reading

うぃる・しゃーぷ

Born

September 22, 1986 (age 39)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Tiger

Origin

London Borough of Camden, United Kingdom

Occupation

screenwriter / film director / television actor / director

University

University of Cambridge

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.willsharpe.com
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%97

Tags

• screenwriter
• film director
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.