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
Half my fan mail comes from Japan.
When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.
I swim a lot. I swim most days.
I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.
I love music, and I love singing.
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.
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.
My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.
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.