1. Ben Steel is an Australian actor and director who is most known for his regular role of Jude Lawson in Australian soap Home and Away.
26 Facts About Ben Steel
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Ben Steel has two older sisters, Nicole Simpson and Kara Joiner.
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Ben Steel continued his studies with the Meisner technique overseas at The Impulse Company in London, and Playhouse West in Los Angeles.
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Ben Steel is currently studying at The Prague Playhouse in the Czech Republic.
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Ben Steel began appearing in television commercials at the age of eleven.
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Ben Steel made his first appearance on a television drama series in 1992 when, as a seventeen-year-old, he appeared in the award-winning crime series Phoenix on Australia's ABC-TV.
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Ben Steel studied media and film studies at high school then moved to Sydney to pursue full-time work in the film industry.
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Ben Steel's tenacity paid off when he scored a lighting job on the high-rating ABC program Heartbreak High.
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Ben Steel returned to appearing in front of the camera and into the spotlight.
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On 30 October 2000, Ben Steel made his first appearance as Jude Lawson in the high-rating nightly Australian soap Home and Away.
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Ben Steel played the popular character for three seasons and appeared in more than 160 episodes.
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Ben Steel has since completed more than twenty short films including Airhead starring Andrew Hill and Mum's the Word starring Christopher Egan, both winners of best comedy at "The Shootout 24hour Filmmaking Festival".
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Ben Steel subsequently starred in his first independent feature film The Bitten Tongue, where he had fun playing a cross-dressing, money laundering gangster.
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Ben Steel then went to the US and spent a few months studying acting at Playhouse West under the eye of founders Jeff Goldblum and Robert Carnegie.
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Ben Steel returned home in 2004 to star in the cult theatrical production of Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical to a sold-out season.
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The musical, which is based on the famous porn movie, had its first preview show last night but Ben Steel said his parents would wait a few weeks before they watch him in action "I said to mum I was doing this Debbie Does Dallas play and she had no idea about what it was, so I had to explain it was based on a porn movie, but when I told dad, he knew exactly what it was", he said.
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Ben Steel then went behind the camera again in his music video directorial debut by making "Shower the People" for Australian singing legend Marcia Hines and Belinda Emmett.
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Ben Steel then flew to New Zealand to direct the short film Pullin Roots starring Beau Brady and Clayton Watson.
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Ben Steel headed up the cast of The Vegemite Tales, an Australian play that is set in a share-house in London.
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Ben Steel continued performing in theatre in Serial Killers, a New Zealand play written by James Griffen performed at the Darby Playhouse.
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In 2007 Ben Steel moved to Prague in the Czech Republic.
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However, in August 2007 Ben Steel briefly flew back to Australia for a supporting role in the indie feature film Four of a Kind directed by Fiona Cockrane.
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Former Home and Away hunk Ben Steel has snuck back into Oz to star in the low-budget psychological thriller Disclosure.
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Ben Steel scored his next big screen role in 2009 when he was cast in Red Tails, which was produced by George Lucas and stars Cuba Gooding Jr and Terrence Howard and was released in 2012.
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In mid-2009, Ben Steel was commissioned by national Aruban Broadcaster ATV to produce and direct the television program Stars of Tomorrow.
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Ben Steel met Deni Hines on the set of the Seven Network Perth Telethon in 2001.