The British actor and musician Ben Barnes is known to many for his role in the films The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and The Chronicles of Narnia: Patron of Dawn. The popularity of the actor also brought the movie "Dorian Gray", where Barnes played the main role.
Benjamin (Ben) Thomas Barnes was born in London. Date of birth: August 20, 1981. There is another child in Ben's family - the youngest son named Jack. Thomas, the father of the family, was a professor of psychiatry and worked at King's College. Mother - Tricia - family, relationship and marriage consultant. Thus, the inner circle of Benjamin was not directly related to art. But Ben himself from an early age began to be interested in creativity: he was attracted to both the acting profession and music.
Facts From Ben Barnes Biography
In his childhood, Ben began to make music. Over time, he professionally mastered playing the percussion instruments and the piano. Wanting to develop in different creative directions, Benjamin gradually began to combine the acting profession and music classes. This led to the fact that a talented young man in 2004 participated in the selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, and later recorded a number of musical compositions for some films. Ben managed to work in a musical group, and also to a certain extent develop his solo career.
Ben received his education in his childhood and adolescence in a closed elite school in the UK. When the certificate was received, the young man passed the exams and was enrolled in the ranks of students at Kingston University. He chose a literary faculty for himself, and also engaged in in-depth study of the English language. Ben chose a similar path under the influence of his parents.
For the first time, Benjamin was seriously interested in acting, getting higher education. His passion for acting and theater eventually became so strong that the young man went against his parents and transferred from the literary faculty to the faculty of drama and art. In 2004, the future famous artist graduated from the university with a bachelor's degree.
In 1997, Benjamin got a job in a youth theater. The first production in which Ben took part was the play “Bugsy Malone”. In the troupe of the youth theater, the artist stayed until 2003.
Another project of the talented artist was a series of promotional videos: for a while Ben was the official face of UOMO fragrances, produced by Salvatore Ferragamo.
Acting career and significant roles
During his acting career, Ben Barnes managed to star in more than 15 films, among which were short films. He appeared in 7 television projects, including in TV shows. He managed to work as a voice actor, doing video games, and star in several music videos.
Initially, in the big movie, Benjamin played only background and secondary roles. In 2007, two projects with Barnes were released at once: the independent film “More Ben” and the fantasy film “Stardust”.
Work in the film “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” helped Barnes become famous all over the world. The young actor got the role of the prince himself. The movie was released in 2008. In the same year, Ben Barnes appeared in the film "Easy Behavior" - a remake of the film by A. Hitchcock.
To consolidate the success and fame of the actor helped shooting in the next part of the Chronicles of Narnia. In 2010, the film "The Chronicles of Narnia: Patron of Dawn" was launched at the box office. And a year earlier, the already sought-after artist played a leading role in the movie "Dorian Gray".
In subsequent years, several more feature films were released with Ben Barnes, including: “Kill Bono” (2011), “Only God Knows” (2014), “Seventh Son” (2014).
Along with the development of a career in big cinema, Benjamin Barnes managed to appear in a number of popular television series. So, for example, for his role in the television show “Wild West World” in 2017, the artist was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild of America Award. And the first work of the artist on television was the role in the series "Doctors", it happened back in 2006. In addition to the television series mentioned, Ben managed to star in such projects as “Sons of Freedom” (2015) and “The Punisher” (2017-2019).
