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Alexander Ian "Alex" Sharp (born February 2, 1989) is a Tony Award-winning English actor best known for originating the role of Christopher Boone in the Broadway Production of ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time''. After graduating from the Juilliard School in the summer of 2014, he made his Broadway and acting debut in the play ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'' in the autumn.〔 For his role as the autistic teenager Christopher Boone, he was awarded the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, and the Outer Critics Circle Award. , he is the youngest winner of the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. == Early life and education == Sharp was born in Westminster, London, and was raised in Devon, England by his mother, a teacher, and his father, who worked in real estate. He has a sister, Nicole. His father retired at the age of 35 and the family traveled extensively until Alex was seven years old.〔 His mother homeschooled him with both "rigorous and unorthodox" lessons. Upon his return to Devon, he was unable to adjust easily to a traditional school environment, and eventually left England at age 18.〔 Sharp wanted to be an actor from an early age. At age 7, he made his acting debut as Piglet in ''Winnie-the-Pooh''. He performed in many school plays, building up to an amateur operetta role and pantomime. He also did extensive regional theater work at the Northcott Theater in Exeter.〔 When the subprime mortgage crisis peaked, Sharp came to the United States and leveraged the housing market for quick profits with a friend. At times, he traveled to Latin America to pursue physical activities.〔 When working on a house in Connecticut, Sharp decided that he wanted to become an actor. He asked a friend what the best theatre schools were, and the friend told him Yale and Juilliard. Sharp decided on Juilliard due to its location in the middle of Manhattan, and he auditioned with a scene from ''Hamlet''. Against school rules, he also performed a scene from a play that he had written, claiming that it was the work of a little-known English playwright.〔 He was accepted to Juilliard and attended the Drama Division's ''Group 43'', which included Wallis Currie-Wood. During his time at Juilliard, he wrote and directed a school play that was an adaptation of ''A Clockwork Orange''.〔 He graduated from Juilliard with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alexander Sharp )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alex Sharp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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