Key facts
- Born
- Ben Jones , ( 1991-01-02 ) 2 January 1991 (age 35) , Bournemouth , Dorset, England
- Education
- Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 2012–present
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ben
- Family name
- Jones
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Bournemouth
- Occupation
- actor
- Educated at
- Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- acting
- Image
- Ben Hardy by Gage Skidmore.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1991-01-02
- Commons category
- Ben Hardy
- start of work period
- 2012-00-00
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- 238929
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Encyclopedic overview
Ben Hardy (born Ben Jones; 2 January 1991) is an English actor. A graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Hardy made his professional acting debut in 2012 and gained recognition for playing Peter Beale in the BBC soap opera EastEnders (2013–2015). He followed this up with his film debut as Archangel in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and subsequently portrayed Queen drummer Roger Taylor in the biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody (2018). Other films in which Hardy has appeared include Mary Shelley, Only the Brave (both 2017), 6 Underground (2019), and The Voyeurs (2021).
On television, Hardy has also acted in the miniseries The Woman in White (2018) and The Girl Before (2021).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ben Hardy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.