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17 Facts About Ben Chaplin

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Ben Chaplin has one sister, Rachel, and one brother, Justin.

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Ben Chaplin became interested in acting as a teenager, after acting in a theatrical production in his school years at the Princess Margaret Royal Free School.

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Ben Chaplin pursued his early acting career between odd jobs as an office worker, and for a while was employed as a statistician with the London Transport Authority.

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Ben Chaplin received good reviews as Tom Wingfield in Sam Mendes' stage production of The Glass Menagerie and was nominated for an Olivier award in London, and played the lead role of Matthew in the first series of the British sitcom Game On, and left after one series.

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Ben Chaplin next played fortune-hunting Morris Townsend in a retelling of Washington Square, co-starring Jennifer Jason Leigh.

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Ben Chaplin next played Private Bell in Terrence Malick's remake of The Thin Red Line.

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Ben Chaplin appeared as a introverted bank clerk who purchases a Russian mail-order bride in Birthday Girl.

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Ben Chaplin next played opposite Sandra Bullock as her relatively inexperienced partner in an investigation into a series of killings in Murder by Numbers.

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Ben Chaplin next had a supporting role in Chromophobia, a dark thriller about a bourgeois family coming apart at the seams, starring Penelope Cruz, Ralph Fiennes and Ian Holm.

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Ben Chaplin had a small role in The New World, Terrence Malick's film about the affair between Pocahontas and Captain John Smith.

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Ben Chaplin appeared in the television miniseries World Without End, where he portrayed Thomas Langley, adapted from the novel of the same name by Welsh author Ken Follett.

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Ben Chaplin received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Performer in The Glass Menagerie, and a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in The Retreat from Moscow.

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Ben Chaplin appeared in Dates on Channel 4 in 2013, and recent film roles include the role of Cinderella's father in Cinderella.

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Ben Chaplin starred in Apple Tree Yard with Emily Watson in 2017.

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Ben Chaplin starred in the Joe Penhall play Mood Music at The Old Vic Theatre.

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Ben Chaplin starred in The Children Act, adapted from the Ian McEwan novel of the same name.

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Ben Chaplin starred in the BBC series Press with Charlotte Riley, as unethical tabloid editor Duncan Allen, a role which won him a number of positive reviews.