Vasta Blackwood - Ian Allen/Staff Photographer

Jamaican-born British actor Vasta Blackwood says he is eager to work in the Jamaican theatre.

Blackwood, who is also a playwright and businessman, has been onstage with the best, and says he is desirous to work with the likes of Oliver Samuels, Christopher Daley and Audrey Reid, whom he has great respect for.

Blackwood appears in One Love with Kimani Marley and Cherine Anderson, and is also featured in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

"For me, One Love really put me on a worldwide level," Blackwood tells The Sunday Gleaner recently. "It was a dream to play alongside Carl Bradshaw, however, my heart is still with local theatre."

Blackwood is also featured in Creeper, a horror movie; Finny, a black British gangster movie, and he has also played parts in several documentaries, sponsored by London's Channel 4 Education Department.

After he graduated from the Academy of Live or Recording Art, Blackwood decided he would pursue his craft through the theatre.

Blackwood, a father of three, also writes and was a contributor to the black British paper, The Voice, through the column, Rastaman Vibration.