Ben Daniels was born on 10 June 1964 and is a British actor.
30 Facts About Ben Daniels
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In 2008, Ben Daniels made his Broadway debut in a revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
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Ben Daniels played Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon in the third season of Netflix series The Crown.
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Ben Daniels starred in the role of Walter Sampson in the Netflix superhero series, Jupiter's Legacy.
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Ben Daniels was born on 10 June 1964 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.
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Ben Daniels's father was an engineer at Rolls-Royce and later a grocer, while his mother owned a children's clothes shop.
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Ben Daniels was educated at Manor Park School, a state comprehensive school in Nuneaton, near Coventry, in Warwickshire.
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Ben Daniels subsequently trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art for three years.
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Ben Daniels has taken on parts in many British television dramas, such as Robin in The Lost Language of Cranes, the Biblical character Jonathan in the 1997 Emmy-nominated TV film David, the philandering Finn Bevan in Cutting It, and Nicholas Brocklehurst in the BBC television miniseries The State Within.
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Ben Daniels has played a number of real-life characters, such as German State Secretary Dr Josef Buhler in Conspiracy, a 2001 dramatisation of the Wannsee Conference at which the Final Solution was endorsed.
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In 2017, Ben Daniels made a guest appearance in a Treehouse of Horror episode of The Simpsons as a priest.
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Ben Daniels may be most recognisable to American audiences for appearing in the 1996 gay film Beautiful Thing.
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Ben Daniels portrayed Tony, boyfriend of Sandra, the protagonist Jamie's mother.
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Ben Daniels was offered roles in the 2000 releases The Patriot and Vertical Limit, but turned them down and stated that "the money was good, but it wasn't for me".
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Ben Daniels had a brief appearance as General Antoc Merrick in the Star Wars film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
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Ben Daniels has said that he loves acting on stage because "it's tough and keeps you on your toes as an actor".
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Ben Daniels appeared in All's Well That Ends Well and As You Like It, and played Mercutio in a 1994 TV adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.
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Ben Daniels acted in Martin Yesterday, for which he was nominated as Best Actor in the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards, Naked, Tales From Hollywood, Three Sisters, Iphigenia at Aulis, The God of Hell, and The Wild Duck.
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In 2006, Ben Daniels appeared in Therese Raquin as Laurent, for which a reviewer labelled his performance "riveting".
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Ben Daniels won the Best Supporting Actor award at the Whatsonstage.
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Ben Daniels was first nominated for the latter award earlier in his career, in 1991, for his performance as murderer Richard Loeb in the play Never the Sinner at the Playhouse Theatre.
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In 2008, Ben Daniels fulfilled a lifetime ambition when he made his Broadway debut, headlining as the Vicomte de Valmont in a revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
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Ben Daniels was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for his role.
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Ben Daniels will be on the series Interview with a Vampire.
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Ben Daniels played a reoccurring role in the Netflix series House of Cards as prominent photographer Adam Galloway.
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Ben Daniels played the role of lawyer Rory Murray in the second season of "Passenger List", a fictional podcast produced by Radiotopia.
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Ben Daniels has been in a relationship with actor Ian Gelder since 1993.
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Ben Daniels was "cautious about mentioning it when I left drama school, because AIDS was terrifying everyone and there was a huge homophobic backlash".
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Ben Daniels decided to reveal his homosexuality at the age of 24, while appearing in an all-star benefit performance of Martin Sherman's Bent.
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From a young age to his early forties, Ben Daniels suffered from sleep paralysis.