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Ben Koldyke

Ben Koldyke (Benjamin Koldyke, born 1968, Chicago) is an American actor known for Don Frank on How I Met Your Mother, Lee Standish in Work It, and Greg Gibbon on Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street, plus The Finest Hours.

Ben Marshall (comedian)

Ben Marshall (born 1995) is an American comedian, one third of the trio Please Don't Destroy with Martin Herlihy and John Higgins. An SNL writer from 2021, he became a featured player in season 51 (2025) and co-wrote The Treasure of Foggy Mountain.

Ben McKenzie

Ben McKenzie (Benjamin McKenzie Schenkkan, born 1978) is an American actor from The O.C., Southland, and Gotham, and an anti-crypto author of Easy Money and director of Everyone Is Lying to You for Money; distinct from the Australian performer of the same name.

Ben Mendelsohn

Ben Mendelsohn (born 1969, Melbourne) is an Australian actor, full name Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn, known for Animal Kingdom, Bloodline (2016 Emmy), Orson Krennic in Rogue One and Andor, and Christian Dior in The New Look.

Ben Miles

Ben Miles (Benjamin Charles Miles), English actor born 1966 in Wimbledon, trained at Guildhall; known for Patrick Maitland in Coupling, Thomas Cromwell in the RSC's Wolf Hall plays (2015 Tony nomination), The Lehman Trilogy, and The Crown.

Ben Miller

Ben Miller is a British actor, comedian, and writer, half of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller and star of Death in Paradise; also known as Johnny English's Bough, Bridgerton's Lord Featherington, and a former Cambridge physics PhD student.

Ben Powers

Ben Powers (Alton Adelbert Powers, 1950-2015) was an American actor and comedian, best known as Keith Anderson, Thelma's husband, on the final season of Good Times, and as Moochie on The New Mike Hammer.

Ben Rappaport

Ben Rappaport (Bennett Eli Rappaport, born 1986, Arlington, Texas) is an American actor, a Juilliard graduate and Michel and Suria Saint-Denis Prize winner, known for NBC's Outsourced, ABC's For the People, Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof, and Good Night, Oscar.

Ben Rosenfield

Ben Rosenfield (born 1992, Montclair, New Jersey) is an American actor known for Willie Thompson on Boardwalk Empire, Tim Buckley in Greetings from Tim Buckley, 6 Years, Twin Peaks, and Off-Broadway stage work; distinct from comedian Ben Rosenfeld.

Ben Savage

Ben Savage (Bennett Joseph Savage, born 1980) is an American actor, brother of Fred Savage, known as Cory Matthews on Boy Meets World (1993–2000) and Girl Meets World, later a Democratic candidate for West Hollywood City Council and California's 30th Congressional District.

Ben Schnetzer

Ben Schnetzer (born 1990, New York City) is an American actor trained at London's Guildhall School, known for Pride, The Book Thief, Warcraft, Y: The Last Man, and Van Davis in Taylor Sheridan's The Madison.

Ben Shenkman

Ben Shenkman (born 1968, New York) is an American actor, Brown graduate with an NYU MFA, known as Louis Ironson in HBO's Angels in America (Emmy and Golden Globe nominations), Tony-nominated for Proof, and in Fish in the Dark.

Ben Stein

Ben Stein (Benjamin Jeremy Stein, born 1944) is an American lawyer, economist, writer, and actor, a speechwriter for Nixon and Ford, the monotone teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Emmy-winning host of Win Ben Stein's Money.

Ben Stiller

Ben Stiller, full name Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller, is an American actor, comedian, and director born in 1965 to comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, known for hit comedies.

Ben Vereen

Ben Vereen (Benjamin Augustus Vereen), born 1946 in Miami, is an American actor-singer-dancer who won the 1973 Tony for Pippin's Leading Player and played Chicken George in Roots, distinct from namesakes like neuroscientist Ben Rein.

Ben Wang

Ben Wang (born 2000) is a Chinese American actor; lead of Disney+'s American Born Chinese as Jin Wang and Li Fong in Karate Kid: Legends (2025), the franchise's first Asian American new Kid, with Wyatt Callow in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026) upcoming.

Ben Whishaw

Ben Whishaw (Benjamin John Whishaw, born 1980) is an English actor trained at RADA; known as Q in the Bond films, the voice of Paddington, Hamlet at the Old Vic, and BAFTA, Emmy, and Critics Choice-winning TV roles.

Ben Willbond

Ben Willbond (Benjamin Thomas Willbond, born 1973) is an English actor and screenwriter; Perrier best newcomer 1999, Horrible Histories and Yonderland, co-writer of Bill, and co-creator and star of Ghosts as The Captain.

Ben Woolf

Ben Woolf (1980–2015) was an American actor with pituitary dwarfism, 4'4", who played the Infantata and Meep in American Horror Story while working as a preschool teacher; distinct from a namesake British director.

Benedetta Cimatti

Benedetta Cimatti, Italian actress born 1989 in Faenza, trained at Rome's Accademia Fondamenta; known for L'Ispettore Coliandro, Doc – Nelle tue mani, and as Rachele Mussolini in M. Il figlio del secolo.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch (born 1976, London) is a British actor known for Sherlock, Doctor Strange, The Imitation Game, and The Power of the Dog; Emmy winner, two-time Oscar nominee, LAMDA President, SunnyMarch founder.

Benedict Samuel

Benedict Samuel (born 1988) is an Australian actor, writer, and director, NIDA graduate, known as Jervis Tetch/Mad Hatter in Gotham and Owen in The Walking Dead, brother of actor Xavier Samuel.

Benedict Wong

Benedict Wong, English actor born 1971 in Eccles, Greater Manchester; Kublai Khan in Marco Polo, sorcerer Wong in the MCU, Da Shi in 3 Body Problem; BIFA-nominated for Dirty Pretty Things.

Benito Martinez (actor)

Benito Martinez, also credited as Benito James Martinez, is an American actor born 1971 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, best known as Captain David Aceveda on The Shield and for multiple roles in American Crime.

Benjamin Bratt

Benjamin Bratt (born 1963, San Francisco) is an American actor and producer, Emmy-nominated as Detective Rey Curtis on Law & Order, known for Traffic, Miss Congeniality, Piñero, and voicing Ernesto de la Cruz in Coco, and for Native American activism.

Benjamin Wadsworth (actor)

Benjamin Hassan Wadsworth (born 1999, Houston, Texas) is an American actor, lead of SYFY's Deadly Class as Marcus Lopez Arguello and Drew in Hulu's Tell Me Lies.

Benjamin Walker (actor)

Benjamin Walker (born Benjamin Walker Davis, 1982) is an American actor, Tony-nominated for All My Sons, known for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, American Psycho, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and Gil-galad in The Rings of Power.

Benjamin Whitrow

Benjamin Whitrow (Benjamin John Whitrow, 1937-2017), English RADA-trained stage and screen actor; played Mr. Bennet in the BBC's 1995 Pride and Prejudice (BAFTA-nominated) and voiced Fowler in Chicken Run.

Benoît Magimel

Benoît Magimel is a French actor, born in 1974 in Paris, who won the Cannes Best Actor award for The Piano Teacher (2001) and four César Awards.

Benoît Poelvoorde

Benoît Poelvoorde (born 1964, Namur) is a Belgian actor and comedian, co-creator and star of Man Bites Dog (1992), a three-time César nominee and 2014 Magritte Best Actor winner.