Biography

Richard Sharrah was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a twin and third of four children. Due to his father's profession, Richard would attend schools in many different cities and countries throughout his youth. Richard studied the arts while attending school in Melbourne, Australia and would later participate in Theatre while attending High School in Oklahoma. Richard's many innate talents and artistic vision were all refined and mastered while he attended the prestigious New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Thanks to Richard's memorable experiences of traveling as a child, any chance he could, he would travel to distant parts of the world to experience new cultures and people. His travels have taken him all over North and South America, Africa, Europe, Eastern Europe, and Asia. His wealth of knowledge from traveling and experiencing many different cultures help Richard immensely as he continues to act in film. He is known for his work as an actor in Just Let Go (2015) with Henry Ian Cusick and the Rob Reiner film Being Charlie (2015), ABC TV Show Blood & Oil (2015), and the spinoff of ABC's "Black-ish" Grown-ish (2018). Richard's lead performances in the films "Bar Abba" and "Mejorar La Raza" have received critical acclaim from Academy Award Qualifying Film Festivals across the nation. Richard resides in Los Angeles, California.