Ross F. Sutherland was born in Scotland in the mid 1970’s, an only child of 2 hardworking, working class parents, he found performing at an early age. Ross was first on stage at the age of 6, and he found the experience exhilarating, something took hold and it never left. Ross continued to perform throughout his early teens in local kids shows and was even invited to perform in full adult shows while still very young.

The traditional route to becoming an actor was his focus from around 14 years of age, where his friends didn’t really know what they wanted in life, Ross knew exactly what he wanted, and the scene was set to his future career. Hard work and dedication through School and performing with his Nation Youth Theatre via a foundation course in Performance, Ross won a place at the prestige drama School the Guildford School of Acting at 18 years of age.

Ross took to the world class training like sponge and with help from visiting professionals and college staff honed his already considerable talent. After leaving Ross has worked in all aspects of performance including Theatre, Film, Television and Radio. In 2000 he was part of the multi award winning play “Decky Does a Bronco” which was co-produced by the prestigious Almeida Theatre in London.

Ross specialises in character acting, he has played a huge amount of different roles from a Penguin to a sadistic prison warden and uses multiple techniques and influences to get in to each role. From the classic approach of Stanislavski or just listening to some music, you never know when the creative lightening will strike. His acting influences include James Gandolfini , Al Pacino.

Ross has also directed professionally for stage, his first production was of Martin Shermans award winning play about the persecution of Homosexuality in Germany “Bent “ in which he also appeared as Freddie the closeted Drag Queen made famous by Mick Jagger in the movie of the same name.