William Tomomori Fukuda Sharpe was born on 1986 and is an English actor, writer, and director.
13 Facts About Will Sharpe
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Will Sharpe starred in the second season of The White Lotus, earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
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Will Sharpe was born in London and raised in Tokyo until the age of eight.
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Will Sharpe then studied Classics at the University of Cambridge, where he was the president of the Footlights Revue.
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Will 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.
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Will Sharpe played the character of Yuki Reid in the BBC medical drama Casualty.
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Will Sharpe is known for writing, directing, and starring in the dark comedy-drama Flowers, which premiered on Channel 4 in 2016.
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Will Sharpe directed and co-wrote the 2021 biographical comedy-drama film The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the artist Louis Wain.
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In 2022, Will Sharpe joined the cast of the HBO series The White Lotus in its second season, set in Sicily, as Ethan Spiller, a newly wealthy tech entrepreneur on vacation.
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In 2023, Will Sharpe was announced as the director of the film adaptation of Japanese Breakfast frontwoman Michelle Zauner's memoir, Crying in H Mart.
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In 2025, Zauner shared that Will Sharpe had stepped down from the project.
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Will Sharpe's brother is composer Arthur Sharpe, who has written music for The Darkest Universe, Black Pond, and Flowers.
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Will Sharpe is married to actress Sophia Di Martino, with whom he has been in a relationship since 2009.