--- name: "Alex Sharp" canonical: "https://film.one/person/alex-sharp" fi1m_id: "alex-sharp" imdb_id: "nm5189784" tmdb_id: 136127 wikidata_id: "Q20685513" roles: ["Actor"] born: "2 February 1989" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 70 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-10-03T02:44:10.659821+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Alex Sharp ## Identity Alex Sharp - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alex-sharp - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** alex-sharp - **IMDb ID:** nm5189784 - **TMDB ID:** 136127 - **Wikidata ID:** Q20685513 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Sharp, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20685513, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5189784/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/136127 Actor. Born 2 February 1989 in Westminster, London, England, UK. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 2 February 1989, Westminster, London, England, UK - **Active:** 2022–present - **Also known as:** Alexander Ian Sharp - **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m against the critics:** 70 to 70 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 3 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 3, History 1, Mystery 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1 - **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $58m across 2 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Sharp, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20685513, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5189784/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/136127 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*3 Body Problem*](https://film.one/tv/3-body-problem.md) (65) - **Pluto TV:** [*One Life*](https://film.one/film/one-life.md) (64) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Alex Sharp > Alex Sharp plays quiet, introspective men, and does it with the kind of preparation most actors save for the lead. In *3 Body Problem* it gave him the one storyline that moved us; in *One Life* it earned him a single clause in our review. Watch him in the pub. *3 Body Problem* keeps returning its five Oxford physicists to the same table, and the series is at its weakest there, which we said at the time. Sharp's Will Downing is the one who did not stay in physics and teaches in a school instead, and he spends those scenes listening. He is not doing nothing. He is doing the thing that makes the others look as though they are talking too much. He came to the screen from the stage, and late. He graduated from Juilliard in 2014 and made his professional debut that autumn as Christopher Boone in the Broadway production of *The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time*, a lead that asked him to carry a whole evening. Film has asked less of him. From 2017 he took supporting parts: *To the Bone* (2017), *How to Talk to Girls at Parties* (2017), Rennie Davis in *The Trial of the Chicago 7* (2020), Peter Wakeling opposite Bill Nighy in *Living* (2022). Then *One Life* (2023) and *3 Body Problem* (2024). The pattern in the parts is that he prepares hard for characters who show very little. For *To the Bone* he lost weight to play a patient on an eating-disorder ward. For Will Downing he talked to death doulas, and we will say no more about why. He has called what they do "a really brave and important job", and the work shows in the performance as an absence of fuss: nothing pleading, nothing performed. In *One Life* the same quality worked against him. Trevor Chadwick is the man who volunteers to stay in Prague, which ought to be a part, and Sharp is so unshowy that James Hawes's film barely notices him. Our review gave him a clause, and that was about right. Here is the honest bit. By the last episodes of *3 Body Problem* we were moved, more than eight episodes of exposition had earned, and it was Sharp who did it, by playing a man to whom the largest things in the series happen at the smallest scale and who never once asks to be pitied. The Oxford strand had been the series' weak point. His was the storyline that rescued it. That is a real gift, and it is also the kind that gets its owner cast as the nice one at the end of the table for twenty years. What he has not yet had on screen is what he had on stage on his first night: the whole evening. Someone should give it to him. We would like to see what he does with the talking. ## Biography Alex Sharp is an English actor. Born Alexander Ian Sharp on 2 February 1989 in Westminster, London, he trained at the Juilliard School, graduating with a BFA in 2014. He made his Broadway debut that year as Christopher Boone in *The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time*, winning the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play and the Outer Critics Circle Award. His screen credits include *To the Bone* (2017), *How to Talk to Girls at Parties* (2017), *The Hustle* (2019), *The Trial of the Chicago 7* (2020), *Living* (2022) and *One Life* (2023), in which he played Trevor Chadwick. He later appeared as Will Downing in the series *3 Body Problem* (2024). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *3 Body Problem* (2024), Fi1m 65, as Will Downing — [page](https://film.one/tv/3-body-problem.md) - *One Life* (2023), Fi1m 64, as Trevor Chadwick — [page](https://film.one/film/one-life.md) - *Living* (2022), Fi1m 81, as Peter Wakeling — [page](https://film.one/film/living.md) ## Complete filmography (11) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *3 Body Problem* (2024), series, as Will Downing — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/3-body-problem.md) - *One Life* (2023), as Trevor Chadwick — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/one-life.md) - *Living* (2022), as Peter Wakeling — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/living.md) - *The Good Lord Bird* (2020), series, as Preacher - *The Trial of the Chicago 7* (2020), as Rennie Davis - *The Sunlit Night* (2020), as Yasha - *The Hustle* (2019), as Thomas Westerburg - *UFO* (2018), as Derek Echevaro - *Better Start Running* (2018), as Harley - *How to Talk to Girls at Parties* (2017), as Enn - *To the Bone* (2017), as Luke ## Awards ### Other awards — 2 won - Theatre World Award 2015: Theatre World Award (won) - Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play 2015: Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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