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Ben Daniels is an English actor. A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he has taken on roles in numerous productions. On television he has appeared in, among other shows, The Lost Language of Cranes, Conspiracy, Cutting It, Ian Fleming: Bondmaker, The Virgin Queen and The State Within. On the silver screen, Daniels has appeared mostly in supporting roles, including parts...  MORE

Ben Daniels is an English actor. A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he has taken on roles in numerous productions. On television he has appeared in, among other shows, The Lost Language of Cranes, Conspiracy, Cutting It, Ian Fleming: Bondmaker, The Virgin Queen and The State Within. On the silver screen, Daniels has appeared mostly in supporting roles, including parts in The Bridge, Beautiful Thing, I Want You, Madeline and Doom. An exception was the 1997 independent film Passion in the Desert, based on a short story by novelist Honoré de Balzac. Daniels has had most success with theatre work. He was nominated for Best Actor at the Evening Standard Awards for 900 Oneonta, for Best Actor in the M.E.N. Theatre Awards for Martin Yesterday, and for Best Supporting Actor in the 15th Laurence Olivier Awards for Never the Sinner. He eventually won the last award at the 25th Laurence Olivier Awards, as well as the Best Supporting Actor award at the 2001 Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Theatre Awards, for his performance in the Arthur Miller play All My Sons. Other theatre credits include Tales From Hollywood, Three Sisters, Iphigenia at Aulis, The God of Hell, The Wild Duck and Thérèse Raquin. In 2008 Daniels made his Broadway début with American actress Laura Linney in a revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play. LESS