Sharon’s casting career began working for the Royal Shakespeare Company, gradually transitioning into television and film casting.  She initially broadened her horizons taking short sabbaticals from the RSC to cast historical mini-series for the US broadcasting Networks NBC, CBS, ABC and American Playhouse classics for PBS.  As the assignments grew and the work became more extensive she set up her own casting company and collaborated on projects casting not only from the UK but extensively in Europe including 9 months in Russia casting the spectacularly expensive NBC production of Peter the Great.  She has worked extensively with writer/directors such as Peter Greenaway and Michael Radford and collaborated on many renowned international  independent film projects such as Shine, Mao’s Last Dancer, The Cook, The Thief, etc, The Yellow Handkerchief. 

In the early 1990s, Sharon was head-hunted  by Warner Brothers’ VP of Casting, Marion Dougherty, to take the executive position of Director of Feature Casting at Warner Bros In Los Angeles, working with directors such as Joel Schumacher, Tony Scott, John Landis, Bill Forsythe, and Donald Petrie who directed  Grumpy Old Men—a film that was the highlight of Sharon’s WB days as she got to spend time with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Anecdotally, both of them wanted to be included in the casting process and it was worth every moment to hear their back and forth banter.  In more recent years Sharon works on both sides of the Atlantic and gets involved in the early development of projects, putting lead actors in place to help enable a “green-light” and a distribution deal.  More recent credits include Paolo Sorrentino’s “The New Pope” and Netflix feature “Stromboli” as well as “A Beautiful Imperfection.” Amongst others projects in various stages of pre-production, she has recently finished the UK casting for Michael Mann’s  feature film, “Ferrari.”