Sharpe/Trivia


 * Retroactive Recognition: Happens a lot watching the older TV episodes nowadays, because of many actors in early roles who went onto greater and/or geekier things:
 * Daniel Craig as a Lt. Berry, a minor villain.
 * Philip Glenister as a workers' rights leader ''
 * Brian Cox as Major Hogan, Lord Wellington's spymaster.
 * Alice Krige as a Femme Fatale French spy.
 * Elizabeth Hurley as one of Sharpe's love interests.
 * Alexis Denisof as a rich male appendage who steal's Sharpe's woman.
 * Paul Bettany as Prince William of Orange.
 * Pete Postlethwaite as Obadiah Hakeswill.
 * Arguably, Sean Bean himself is also better known worldwide now for his role as Boromir in The Lord of the Rings.
 * What Could Have Been: Paul McGann was originally cast as Richard Sharpe, but he broke his leg while playing football only a few days into the shooting of Sharpe's Rifles. Sean Bean was recast in the role and... well, you know the rest.