Rakhee Sharma
Biography
Rakhee Sharma is known for National Theatre Live: Macbeth (2018), The Bay (2019) and The Long Shadow (2023). Rakhee trained as an actress and deviser at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. During her training she was awarded the Laurence Olivier Bursary. As well as work in film and documentary, her most recent theatre work includes Macbeth (National Theatre) and The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca (Manchester Royal Exchange).
Known For & Full Filmography6 Titles
Drama Series - 2019, 16 episodes • as Ms. Bhula
Family Liaison Officer Lisa Armstrong becomes a little too emotionally involved with a case (to the point where she might compromise it) concerning a pair of missing Morecambe twins to whose distraught parents she is assigned.
Drama Series - 2023, 16 episodes • as Nurse Beverley Dennings
Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.
Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes • as The Florist
Misadventures of Paul Green, an investigative journalist working for a small Jewish publication in the UK, The Jewish Enquirer.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Saskia
A politician learns just how quickly things can go terribly wrong when a career-defining live TV interview goes off the rails due to a surprise coughing attack.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Fleance
The ruined aftermath of a bloody civil war. Ruthlessly fighting to survive, the Macbeths are propelled towards the crown by forces of elemental darkness. Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying tragedy, directed by Rufus Norris, sees Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff return to the National Theatre to play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • as Sonographer
A childless woman is told that her longed for unborn baby is incompatible with life. Alone, with her conscience and unable to openly discuss her situation because of society’s stigma surrounding termination and the self- silencing of women concerning reproduction, she painfully decides the best way forward.