Ben Daniels

At 59 years old, Ben Daniels has this physical status:

Ben Daniels (born 10 June 1964) is an English actor.

Daniels, a stage actor, was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor for Never the Sinner (1991), and the Evening Standard Award for Best Actor in the M.E.N. Martin Yesterday (1998) was nominated for Best Support Actor in the Arthur Miller film All My Sons and received the 2001 Olivier Award for his role. Daniels made his Broadway debut in Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 2008, for which he was nominated for the Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play.

Daniels has appeared on several television shows, including Cutting It (2002–04), The Virgin Queen (2005), Law & Order: The United Kingdom (2009–11), and The Exorcist (2016–17). Daniels was cast as Pontius Pilate in the forthcoming Netflix superhero film The Crown's live on April 1, 2018, according to TVLine.

Early life

Daniels was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, on June 10, 1964. His father worked as an engineer and then as a grocer, while his mother owned a children's clothing store. "I was a shy child but it was also very disruptive." I was so sneaky and underhanded.

Daniels attended Manor Park School, a state comprehensive school in Nuneaton, near Coventry (since closed). Drama lessons at O-levels gave him a voice, and he attended sixth form studies at Stratford College between 1980 and 1982, studying A-levels in theatre studies and English literature, according to Daniels. Daniels, who he knew as Dave, was "very serious about his work and struck me as incredibly intelligent," a fellow student explained. Daniels then studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) for three years.

Personal life

Daniels has been in a long-term friendship with actor Ian Gelder since 1993. They met during the development of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane. Daniels lived in South London and was already aware of his sexual orientation in his teens (He once remarked: "Out!" ("I've never been in.") However, he did not discuss the issue with his parents because they did not have a close emotional relationship. "I was worried about mentioning it after leaving drama school because HIV was feared by all and there was a strong anti-gay reaction." He revealed his homosexuality at the age of 24, while appearing in Martin Sherman's All-Star Benefit Performance.

"Homophobia is also extremely present in film and television," Daniels said in an interview in 2001. I know I've lost jobs as a result of being gay, but it's still a problem. Even on a serious BBC Two drama, there will be a suit in some office going." "Ah, isn't he a poof?" says the narrator. I don't identify myself politically gay, but if I do get a whiff of it right now, I'm on it like a ton of bricks." Daniels was ranked 79 on the annual Pink List of 100 influential gay and lesbian people in the United Kingdom, down from number 47 in 2006.

He is an amateur painter and a practitioner of Ashtanga yoga in his spare time. Daniels suffered with insomnia from a young age to his early twenties.

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Career

"You're Out There Somewhere" (1988), one of Daniels' earliest performances, was as Justin Hayward, the lead singer of the Moody Blues, as a youth in two of the band's music videos, "Your Wildest Dreams" (1986) and "I Know You're Out There Somewhere." He appeared in the doomed plane's crash episode "Cascade" of television show Casualty in 1992 as the co-pilot. In many British television dramas, such as Robin in The Lost Language of Cranes (1991), the biblical protagonist Jonathan in the 1997 Emmy-nominated television film David, the philandering Finn Bevan in Cutting It (1992), and Nicholas Brocklehurst in the BBC television miniseries The State Within (2006). Daniels' character and another individual's "unexpected same-sex kiss" in the latter role. He appeared in Lark Rise to Candleford, a BBC production based on three semi-autobiographical books about the English countryside, written by Flora Thompson in 2008.

Daniels has also played several real-life characters, such as German State Secretary Dr. Josef Bühler in Conspiracy, a 2001 dramatization of the Wannsee Conference at which the Final Solution was accepted. In Ian Fleming: Bondmaker (2005), he also played James Bond, as well as Sir Francis Walsingham in Who Killed Mrs De Ropp? (2007). In addition,, he has appeared in a number of British television drama series, including Soldier Soldier (1992), Outside Edge (1994), and Merlin (2011). Daniels appeared as a priest in a Treehouse of Horror episode of The Simpsons in 2017.

Daniels may be the most recognisable to American audiences for his role in the 1996 gay film Beautiful Thing. Tony, Sandra's boyfriend, was portrayed by Daniels. Jamie's mother is also portrayed. Daniels played Augustin Robert, a French soldier in a Lavinia Currier-directed film titled Passion in the Desert (1997). The film had been nominated for a Golden Seashell award. The Bridge (1992), I Want You (1998), Madeline (1998), and Doom (2005) are among Daniels' other feature films. He was offered roles in the 2000 films The Patriot and Vertical Limitation but decided that the "money was fine, but not for me." In the Star Wars film Rogue One: A Star Wars Novel, Daniels appeared briefly as GM Antoc Merrick.

"It's difficult and keeps you on your toes as an actor," Daniels said. In a 1994 TV version of Romeo and Juliet, he appeared in All's Well That Ends Well and As You Like It (1999-2000), and he appeared in All's Well That Ends Well and As You Like It (1999-2000). Waiting for Godot (1994) and 900 Oneonta (1994), which earned him a nomination for Best Actor at the Evening Standard Awards, are among the actor credits in Waiting for Godot (1994). In addition, he appeared in Martin Yesterday (1998), Three Sisters (2003), The God of Hell (2005), and The Wild Duck (2005–2006). Daniels debuted in Thérèse Raquin in 2006, dubbed "riveting" by a reviewer. In the NBC live musical Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, Daniels appeared as Pontius Pilate on April 1, 2018.

Daniels received the Best Supporting Actor award at the Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Theatre Awards and the 25th Laurence Olivier Awards in 2001 for his role in the Arthur Miller play All My Sons. He was first nominated for the latter award earlier in his career, in 1991, for his role as murderer Richard Loeb in the play Never the Sinner at the Playhouse Theatre. Daniels fulfilled a lifetime dream when he made his Broadway debut in 2008, appearing as the Vicomte de Valmont in a revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. The show opened on May 1st, 2008. Daniels was nominated for a Tony Award for his Best Actor in a Play for his role.

Daniels played a recurring role in the Netflix series House of Cards (2013-2014) as prominent photographer Adam Galloway.

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