LONDON (AP) — British actor Micheal Ward has been charged with rape and sexual assault, police mentioned Friday.
The 27-year-old faces two counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault, the Metropolitan Police drive mentioned. The fees relate to 1 lady and the offenses reportedly happened in January 2023.
Ward denied the costs and mentioned in a press release that he has “full faith” that his identify will probably be cleared in court docket. He is as a result of seem at London’s Thames Magistrates’ Courtroom on Aug. 28.
Ward has appeared in movies together with “Blue Story,” “The Book of Clarence” and the lately launched American political satire “Eddington.”
In 2020, he gained the Rising Star award on the British Academy Movie Awards, or BAFTAs. He was nominated for an appearing BAFTA for Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light” and for a BAFTA tv award for the Steve McQueen-directed sequence “Small Axe.”
