Ben Daniels
Birthday: 1964-06-10 | Place of Birth: Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UKFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Daniels, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Dr. Rivers
as Walter Sampson / Brainwave
as Daniel
as Pontius Pilate
as Col Sigurd von Ilsemann
as Father Marcus Brennan
as Paul
as Francis Davey
as Gareth (voice)
as Lieutenant Colonel Howfield
as John Thain
as Francis Walsingham
as Nicholas Brocklehurst
as Francis Walsingham
as Goat
as Bühler
as Townsend
as Bob
as Leopold the Tutor
as Ben
as Robin Bradley
