1. Benjamin McKenzie Schenkkan was born on September 12,1978 and is an American actor, author and commentator.
20 Facts About Ben McKenzie
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Ben McKenzie is best known for his starring television roles as Ryan Atwood on the teen drama The OC.
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Outside of acting, Ben McKenzie is noted for his critical commentary on the cryptocurrency bubble and fraud with journalist Jacob Silverman.
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Ben McKenzie is one of three sons born to Frances Schenkkan, a poet, and Pete Schenkkan, an attorney.
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Ben McKenzie has two younger brothers, both of whom are former actors.
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Ben McKenzie's grandfather, Robert F Schenkkan, was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and worked on passing the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.
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Ben McKenzie is a nephew of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan; McKenzie appeared in his 2019 work The Investigation.
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Ben McKenzie attended Stephen F Austin High School, playing wide receiver and defensive back for the school's football team.
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Ben McKenzie reportedly earned between about $15,000 and $25,000 per episode throughout the show's run.
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Ben McKenzie was voted one of InStyle's "10 Hottest Bachelors of Summer" in July 2005.
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In 2008, Ben McKenzie earned critical acclaim for his solo performance in the "live on stage, on film" version of Dalton Trumbo's 1939 novel Johnny Got His Gun, his first starring role in a film.
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Ben McKenzie returned to Fox in the Batman prequel television show Gotham, which premiered on September 22,2014.
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Ben McKenzie went on to direct "One of My Three Soups" and write "The Demon's Head" from the fourth season.
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Ben McKenzie shot Line of Duty, a real-time action thriller, in Birmingham, Alabama in early summer 2018; it was released in 2019.
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Ben McKenzie portrayed President Donald Trump's former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, as well as Donald Trump Jr.
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Ben McKenzie made his Broadway debut on January 23,2020, in the Second Stage production of Grand Horizons at the Hayes Theater.
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Since 2021, Ben McKenzie has been an outspoken critic of cryptocurrency.
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Ben McKenzie is noted as one of the few celebrity skeptics of the technology.
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Ben McKenzie has been a guest on podcasts like What Next: TBD, Deconstructed, and Chapo Trap House, and radio programs Marketplace Tech and Morning Edition.
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In September 2015, actress Morena Baccarin said in a legal declaration involving her divorce from Austin Chick that she planned to marry her Gotham co-star, Ben McKenzie, adding that she was pregnant with their child.