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Name
Ben Daniels

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1964-06-10 (62 years old)

Place of Birth
Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK

Biography

Ben Daniels (born 10 June 1964) is a British actor. A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), he has taken on roles in numerous productions. On television he has appeared in, among other shows, The Lost Language of Cranes (1991), Conspiracy (2001), Cutting It (2002–2005), Ian Fleming: Bondmaker (2005), The Virgin Queen (2005) and The State Within (2006). On the silver screen, Daniels has appeared mostly in supporting roles, including parts in The Bridge (1992), Beautiful Thing (1996), I Want You (1998), Madeline (1998) and Doom (2005). An exception was the 1997 independent film Passion in the Desert, based on a short story by novelist Honoré de Balzac.

Daniels was born on 10 June 1964 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.[6] His father was an engineer at Rolls-Royce and later a grocer, while his mother owned a children's clothes shop. He has recalled: "I was quite a shy child, but quite disruptive as well. "I was very sneaky and underhanded."

Daniels was educated at Manor Park School, a state comprehensive school in Nuneaton, near Coventry, in Warwickshire (since closed). According to Daniels, drama lessons at O-levels gave him a voice, and when he attended sixth form studies at Stratford College between 1980 and 1982, doing A-levels in theatre studies and English literature, he attended Royal Shakespeare Company performances. A fellow student recalled that Daniels, whom he knew as Dave, "was very serious about his work, and struck me as incredibly intelligent... you got the sense his mind was working; the cogs were ticking over". Daniels subsequently trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) for three years.

Daniels has had most success with theatre work. He was nominated for Best Actor at the Evening Standard Awards for 900 Oneonta (1994), for Best Actor in the M.E.N. Theatre Awards for Martin Yesterday (1998), and for Best Supporting Actor in the 15th Laurence Olivier Awards for Never the Sinner (1991). He eventually won the latter award at the 25th Laurence Olivier Awards (2001), as well as the Best Supporting Actor award at the 2001 Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Theatre Awards, for his performance in the Arthur Miller play All My Sons. Other theatre credits include Tales From Hollywood (2001), Three Sisters (2003), Iphigenia at Aulis (2004), The God of Hell (2005), The Wild Duck (2005–2006) and Thérèse Raquin (2006). In 2008 Daniels made his Broadway début with American actress Laura Linney in a revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons), for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

1997 David as Jonatan
1996 Beautiful Thing as Tony
2005 Doom as Goat
1998 I Want You as Bob
1997 Passion in the Desert as Augustin Robert
2013 Jack the Giant Slayer as Fumm
2007 Who Killed Mrs De Ropp? as Saki
2000 Britannic as Townsend
1992 The Bridge as Rogers
2014 Locke as Gareth (voice)
2013 The Wipers Times as Lieutenant Colonel Howfield
2001 Married/Unmarried as Danny
2014 Luna as Grant
1987 Wish You Were Here as Maisie Mathews
2024 Argylle as Bartender
1998 Madeline as Leopold the Tutor
2005 Ian Fleming: Bondmaker as Ian Fleming
1994 W.S.H.: The Myth of the Urban Myth
2022 Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look as Antoc Merrick (archive footage) (uncredited)
2017 The Exception as Col Sigurd von Ilsemann
2001 Conspiracy as Josef Bühler
2015 Lunacy: The Making of Luna
1988 Wall of Tyranny as Striemer
2016 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as General Merrick
2009 The Last Days of Lehman Brothers as John Thain
2003 Real Men as DI Matthew Fenton
1992 The Lost Language of Cranes as Robin Bradley
2015 Casanova as Francois-Joachim de Bernis
2018 Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert as Pontius Pilate
2019 Captive State as Daniel
1999 Fanny & Elvis as Andrew
1999 Aristocrats as Lord Kildare
2002 Fogbound as Leo
2021 Benediction as Dr. Rivers
1996 Truth or Dare as Ben
1987 The Fourth Protocol as Boy in Photo (uncredited)
2016 The Exorcist: Making the Demons as Self
2026 National Theatre at Home: Man and Boy as Gregor Antonescu
1994 Romeo and Juliet as Mercutio

1992 A Touch of Frost ( 1 episode ) as Roger Massie
1996 Silent Witness ( 1 episode )
2002 Cutting It ( 19 episodes ) as Finn Bevan
2002 Spooks ( 1 episode ) as Oleg Korsakov
2016 The Crown ( 10 episodes ) as Lord Snowdon
2009 Law & Order: UK ( 26 episodes ) as James Steel
2008 The Passion ( 6 episodes ) as Caiaphas
2004 Agatha Christie's Marple ( 1 episode ) as Alfred Crackenthorpe
2002 Real Men ( 2 episodes )
1989 The Paradise Club ( 2 episodes ) as DC Webster
2014 Jamaica Inn ( 3 episodes ) as Francis Davey
2015 Flesh and Bone ( 8 episodes ) as Paul
2009 Moving On ( 1 episode ) as John Murphy
2015 Casanova ( 1 episode ) as Francois-Joachim de Bernis
2021 Foundation ( 6 episodes ) as Bel Riose
2016 The Exorcist ( 20 episodes ) as Father Marcus Brennan
2008 Lark Rise to Candleford ( 1 episode )
1990 Drop the Dead Donkey ( 1 episode ) as Jack
1986 Casualty ( 1 episode ) as Graham Marda
2011 Women in Love ( 2 episodes ) as Will Brangwen
2013 House of Cards ( 6 episodes ) as Adam Galloway
2012 The Hollow Crown ( 2 episodes ) as Buckingham
2012 The Paradise ( 8 episodes ) as Tom Weston
2021 Jupiter's Legacy ( 8 episodes ) as Walter Sampson / Brainwave
1991 Soldier Soldier ( 1 episode ) as Capt Andy Wright
1989 The Simpsons ( 1 episode ) as Irish Priest (voice)
2022 Interview with the Vampire ( 8 episodes ) as Santiago
1988 The Modern World: Ten Great Writers ( 1 episode ) as Hans Castorp
2008 Merlin ( 2 episodes ) as Tristan
2022 The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power ( 2 episodes ) as Círdan
2006 The State Within ( 6 episodes ) as Nicholas Brocklehurst
1994 Outside Edge ( 5 episodes ) as Alex Harrington
1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Nominee
2006 The Virgin Queen ( 3 episodes ) as Francis Walsingham

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