Ben Daniels (born June 10, 1964) is an English actor best known for All My Sons and Law & Order: UK.
He is openly gay and his partner is actor Ian Gelder.
Film Roles
- Wish You Were Here as Policeman
- The Lost Languages Of Cranes as Robin
- The Bridge as Rogers
- Beautiful Thing as Tony
- Passion in the Desert as Augustin Robert
- I Want You as DJ Bob
- Madeline as Leopold
- Conspiracy as Josef Buhler
- Doom as Eric "Goat" Fantom
- Jack the Giant Slayer as Fumm
- Locke as Gareth
- The Exception as Col. Sigurd von Ilsemann
- Rogue One as Gen. Antoc Merrick
- Captive State as Daniel
Television Roles
- CASUAL+Y as First Officer Graham Marda (1 episode)
- Outside Edge as Alex Harrington (5 episodes)
- Maple as Alfred Crackenthorpe (1 episode)
- Law & Order: UK as James Steel (2009-2011)
- Merlin as Tristan (2 episodes)
- House of Cards (US) as Adam Galloway (7 episodes)
- The Paradise as Tom Weston (8 episodes)
- Flesh and Bone as Paul Grayson (8 episodes)
- The Exorcist as Father Marcus Keane
- The Simpsons as Irish Priest (1 episode)
- The Crown as Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
- Jupiter's Legacy as Walter Sampson / Brainwave
- Foundation (2021) as Bel Riose
- Interview with the Vampire (2022) as Santiago
- The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power in an unknown role
Theatre Roles
- All My Sons as Chris Keller
- Family Circles as James
- The Winter's Tale as Florizel
- Something Wicked This Way Comes as William Holloway
- All's Well That Ends Well as Bertram
- The Tutor as Bollwerk
Tropes associated with Ben Daniels:
- Queer Character, Queer Actor: Has played several queer characters throughout his career including:
- Paul Grayson on Flesh and Bone
- Father Marcus on The Exorcist
- Lord Snowdon on The Crown (2016)
- Bel Riose on Foundation (2021)
- What Could Have Been: He was the runner-up for the role of the Twelfth Doctor in Doctor Who before Peter Capaldi was cast.Daniels: I was approached and asked if it was something I'd be interested in doing. Apparently, usually when it's announced that the Doctor is leaving, the new Doctor's already firmly in place. But a BBC email had apparently been leaked, talking about Matt Smith's departure or something, so they had to announce it officially much sooner than they'd have liked. So I was asked, and when I eventually managed to peel myself off the ceiling, I said, "Yeah, of course it'd be something I'd be interested in doing," and I was hugely excited by it. I was a huge fan of the show as a kid, like we all were really. My era was Jon Pertwee into Tom Baker and then also when it returned, penned thrillingly by the amazing Russell T Davies with Christopher Eccleston. To be thrown into that mix as a possibility was fantastic.
