Ben Barnes
Ben Barnes
Benjamin Thomas "Ben" Barnesis an English actor. He is known for his portrayal of Caspian X in The Chronicles of Narnia films Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, for playing the title character in the 2009 adaptation of Dorian Gray, for his supporting roles in the films The Words and The Big Wedding, and for his portrayal of American Founding Father Samuel Adams in the 2015 miniseries, Sons of Liberty...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth20 August 1981
CityLondon, England
I don't really know who I am as an actor: the best thing would be to experiment with it for the next 30 years and never really find out.
I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.
I actually went to university.
Half my fan mail comes from Japan.
I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.
I'm not really an animal person.
I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege.
My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.
Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.
I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.
When you're doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.
I'm probably a little too uninhibited.
I'm not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative.
I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.