Most Recent Role: Russell Krauss on Canterbury's Law
Gender: Male
Birthplace: New York, USA
Birthday: 9-26-1968
Gender: Male
Birthplace: New York, USA
Birthday: 9-26-1968
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Ben Shenkman graduated New York University in 1992, in which he gained a Masters in Fine Arts degree. He began his acting career with a small role in Law and Order in 1993. Upon launching his career he experimented in film, television and regional theater. His first movie role was a small role in the movie Quiz show , from there he went on to star in Pi , Jesus's Son and 30 Days . Ben...
Most Recent Appearance
Sick as Your Secrets
Friday 18 April 2008 on FOX
In the show's first season finale, Chester takes action when he finds out a little girl was disfigured by rats in a greedy slumlord's building. Molly gets her much anticipated bar exam results back, but is she officially a lawyer now? Elizabeth has always refused to defend a rapist, but she may...
One of Ben's biggest roles was in Angels in America, which is an adaptation of Tony Kushner's hit play of the same name. This was the second time Ben was part of this production, the first time was whilst he was attending New York University.
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Ben has co-stared in productions with Mary-Louise Parker twice.
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Aside from performing in the Broadway production of Proof Ben has also performed in other Broadway and off Broadway shows like: The Deep Blue Sea, Baby Anger and Antony and Cleopatra.
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Ben was also nominated for an Emmy for his role in the mini-series Angels in America.
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Ben starred in the movie Breakfast with Scot, a gay themed Canadian film. This movie may history, being the first time major Canadian hockey teams allowed their facilities to be used for a gay film.
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On Meryl Streep
Ben: But that truth is, once you start acting with her, she is so good that you're just who you are. (edit) Ben: I take it for granted, that this is what I'm doing. It doesn't give me any rush of ego in any way. (edit) Ben: I haven't thought so much about getting myself to a place of more ego or more confidence.
(edit) Ben: To play a lawyer in a smart TV show about lawyers is probably a great alternative to a real legal career. (edit) Ben: You get spoiled as an actor, because you get to cut right to the ideas and the language and the competition- all the juiciest aspects of it without the tough stuff, like the research, the leg work, the bureaucracy and the waiting. (edit)
Ben: But that truth is, once you start acting with her, she is so good that you're just who you are. (edit) Ben: I take it for granted, that this is what I'm doing. It doesn't give me any rush of ego in any way. (edit) Ben: I haven't thought so much about getting myself to a place of more ego or more confidence.
(edit) Ben: To play a lawyer in a smart TV show about lawyers is probably a great alternative to a real legal career. (edit) Ben: You get spoiled as an actor, because you get to cut right to the ideas and the language and the competition- all the juiciest aspects of it without the tough stuff, like the research, the leg work, the bureaucracy and the waiting. (edit)
Other Appearances
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Angels in America
Louis Ironson / Angel of Oceania |
Canterbury's Law
Russell Krauss |
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Twenty Questions
Brian Balogh |
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Law & Order
Nick Margolis |
Love Monkey
Scott |
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Ed
Goodbye Sadie Frank Carr |
Ed
A Job Well Done Frank Carr |
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Ed
Frankie Andy Bednarik |
Law & Order
Flaw Nick Margolis |
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Law & Order
Born Bad Mark Ferris |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Chat Room Kenneth Brill |
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Angels in America
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Canterbury's Law
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An HBO miniseries, based on the Tony-award winning plays by Tony Kushner, about AIDS, religion, drugs, homosexuality, angels, and whether the redemption of man is possible. The story revolves... more
Canterbury's LawCanterbury's Law follows a passionate female defense attorney, Elizabeth Canterbury, who pushes the envelope to protect her innocent clients. more Twenty Questions
Twenty Questions is about a State Department employee named Jackson Lynch (Jesse Bradford, The West Wing ). While delivering a package to the Syrian Embassy he witnesses a murder. When he... more
