Ben Miles began acting in school productions, which he pursued mainly because it allowed him to miss classes.
12 Facts About Ben Miles
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Ben Miles trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
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Ben Miles played a very small part as a journalist, with just a few words of dialogue, in the 1997 motion picture The Wings of the Dove.
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Ben Miles continued other television work during his tenure in Coupling, appearing in The Forsyte Saga as Montague Dartie and in Prime Suspect.
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In 2004, Ben Miles portrayed Charles Ryder in the BBC Radio 4 production of Brideshead Revisited.
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Ben Miles was the co-lead in the BBC drama, A Thing Called Love, filmed on location in Nottingham, England.
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Ben Miles appeared in the 2005 BBC television drama Mr Harvey Lights a Candle, playing the part of a teacher taking an unruly party of pupils on a daytrip to Salisbury Cathedral.
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Ben Miles played the lead in Pulse opposite Claire Foy, whom he co-starred with in The Promise in early 2011, just after appearing in BBC 1's Zen.
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Ben Miles appeared in the play The Norman Conquests as Tom in 2009.
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In summer 2011, Ben Miles starred as Robert in Harold Pinter's Betrayal at the Comedy Theatre in London's West End, with Kristin Scott Thomas playing his wife, Emma.
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In 2014 Ben Miles played Thomas Cromwell in the RSC version of Hilary Mantel's novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies in Stratford and at the Aldwych Theatre in London.
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Ben Miles is married to the actress Emily Raymond, who starred in the film Love Lies Bleeding alongside Faye Dunaway; they have three children.