Biography

William Sutton born and bred into a household of 5 older sisters, joined by a younger brother a year later, in Rawtenstall, Rossendale Valley, Lancashire. Grammar school educated up until O levels. Emigrated with parents, brother and next oldest sister to Mississauga, Ontario aged 16 and attended high school until grade 13.

After a gap year in which he drove across the USA, he studied at Erindale College, University of Toronto. There he discovered acting. A brief 2 year career as a Luger on the Canadian Olympic B team followed his moving to the city he loves, Amsterdam. Here he started acting at the Stalhouderij Company and acting in his earliest TV shows. William's motto is always be working.

A love of Shakespeare happened in 1995 with an encounter between him and an ivy league professor in a coffee-shop. He went to Stratford on Avon to study at the Shakespeare Institute so he could develop and talk Shakespeare 24/7/365. During the late noughties and mid teens of the 21stC he was a founding member and active participant in Passion in Practice, an Original Practice Shakespeare ensemble created by Ben Crystal.

He worked and financed his studies as a stand up comedian, blazing the comedy trail at the Comedy Cafe Amsterdam and touring venues all over the Netherlands, and abroad in South Africa, Curacao, and Taiwan.

Thirty years later and a lot wiser, he teaches Shakespeare, Voice, Accents and Dialects. His fascination for and admiration of the craft of acting has not diminished. He has never had an agent. Which is probably why you've never heard of him. He is one of acting's best kept secrets.
- IMDb mini biography by: William Sutton