Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1980-10-29
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Foster SAT
- Foster Math 1
- Monsieur le No
- Ben Foster 2400
- Here I Stand on the Issues
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Film & TV
Acting · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Benjamin A. Foster (born October 29, 1980) is an American actor. His films include The Punisher (2004), X-Men: The Last Stand and Alpha Dog (both 2006), 30 Days of Night (2007), The Messenger and Pandorum (both 2009), The Mechanic (2011), Contraband (2012), Kill Your Darlings and Lone Survivor (both 2013), The Program (2015), Warcraft (2016), and Leave No Trace (2018). He has won an Independent…
Known for
- Motor City — Reynolds2026
- Long Day's Journey into Night — Jamie Tyrone2025
- King Ivory — George 'Smiley' Greene2025
- Sharp Corner — Josh McCall2025
- Christy — Jim V. Martin2025
- Finestkind — Tom Eldridge2023
- Emancipation — Jim Fassel2022
- Medieval — Jan Žižka2022
- The Survivor — Harry Haft2022
- The Contractor — Mike2022
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 11,709
- Total plays
- 459,771
Tags
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Born in Liverpool, UK, Ben is a composer, orchestrator and conductor. He is best known for his work as orchestrator and conductor on the BBC series Doctor Who, as well as his work composing for the first three series of the BBC’s Torchwood, which earned him 3 BAFTA nominations in the “Best Music” category. Ben is also known for his arrangement and conducting work on films such as Prometheus and The Grey, and for artists such as Gary Barlow, Peter Gabriel and Hayley Westenra. <a href="https://ww
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using
<b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 72,756x
- Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2
· 2012 · cited 52,579x
- Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology
· 2015 · cited 27,997x
- HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements
· 2015 · cited 21,403x
- Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome
· 2009 · cited 19,755x
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Key facts
- Born
- Benjamin A. Foster , ( 1980-10-29 ) October 29, 1980 (age 45) , Boston , Massachusetts, U.S.
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1995–present
- Spouse
- Laura Prepon ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2018 ; </span>"}]]}'>sep. 2024 )
- Relatives
- Jon Foster (brother)
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Key dates
- Born
- 29 October 1980
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ben
- Family name
- Foster
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Boston
- Spouse
- Laura Prepon
- Sibling
- Jon Foster
- Occupation
- film producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
Article
Benjamin A. Foster (born October 29, 1980) is an American actor. His films include The Punisher (2004), X-Men: The Last Stand and Alpha Dog (both 2006), 30 Days of Night (2007), The Messenger and Pandorum (both 2009), The Mechanic (2011), Contraband (2012), Kill Your Darlings and Lone Survivor (both 2013), The Program (2015), Warcraft (2016), and Leave No Trace (2018). He has won an Independent Spirit Award for portraying Tanner Howard in Hell or High Water (2016). He also had a recurring role as Russell Corwin in Six Feet Under (2003–05).
Foster has often received praise from critics for his "intense" and "unhinged" performances in numerous films. Film critic Matt Zoller Seitz described Foster in 2016 as "one of those actors who makes even a bad film worth seeing. Sometimes he suggests the film you'd rather be watching."
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