Celebrity Biographies
Ben Chaplin
Ben Chaplin is a true all-rounder who always adds, never subtracts. He began as a stage actor in England and has joined this task with his work in film and television, both in his native country and in the mecca of cinema. In his filmography, the variety of genres that dot his work is once again a sign that he is always more.
Despite his last name, Ben has no family relationship with the legendary Charlie Chaplin .. A question to which he has answered and will answer on countless occasions. Ben Chaplin was born on July 31, 1970 in London. The son of an engineer and a drama teacher, he soon began his love for his mother’s profession. As a child he took part in numerous plays at school and when he finished he enrolled at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, although he dropped out before finishing his studies. After he left, he began to test the local theater scene and began to work. In all these years, Chaplin has never left the theater, which has brought him recognition both in his country and in places as emblematic as Broadway. In fact, it is the medium where he has received the best reviews. Even so, Ben has also gone through film and television, fields that he combines with the tables.
His television debut was in a chapter of the English hospital series Casually (1990). For his first film job, she had to wait three more years, although the opportunity came from James Ivory in What Remains of the Day . Chaplin seconded Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson as another member of the service of the wealthy house owned by Lord Darlington. Shortly after, Chaplin made his Hollywood debut with the romantic comedy The Truth About Cats and Dogs (1996), where he lived a two-way romance with Janeane Garofalo and Uma Thurman .. From this moment on, Chaplin chose to combine his work in Hollywood with what he does in his country, since, as he himself has confessed on occasion, he does not want to opt for either to the detriment of the other. In the United States too, he played Jennifer Jason Leigh in the drama Washington Square (1997), by Agnieszka Holland . A year later he was part of the choral cast of the wonderful war film directed by Terrence Malick The Thin Red Line . He was a soldier who shared fatigues with the characters of Adrien Brody , Jim Caviezel , George Clooney , John Cusack , Woody Harrelson ,Nick Nolte , Sean Penn , and John Travolta . The experience with Malick seems to have been satisfactory, as he returned to work for him in The New World (2005), an adventure film based on true events that starred Colin Farrell .
Without many titles behind him, it seems that Chaplin was interested in trying different genres. Thus, to the previous variety we must add the three thrillers that he starred in between 2000 and 2002. Possessed has a touch of terror and in it he got into the skin of a writer who had been chosen by the Antichrist to be reincarnated. In Dark Seduction he “brought” Nicole Kidman over from Russia, all to prove that she was not what she appeared to be. And in Murder… 1-2-3 he collaborated closely with police officer Sandra Bullock to stop two teenagers from committing murder. After this he has continued the generic variety in titles like the dramaHigh Society (Chromophobia) (2005), where he shared the bill with Penélope Cruz and Ralph Fiennes , and in the fantastic film directed at a more childish audience My Monster and I (2007). She has yet to premiere in Spain Me and Orson Welles , a drama in which she has worked under the orders of Richard Linklater . The filming of Oliver Parker ‘s Dorian has recently finished,where she has played Basil, the artist who paints the famous portrait of Dorian Gray.