Ben Foster

Ben Foster

1980-10-29 Boston, Massachusetts, USA 63 Credits

Biography

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 a...

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Sharp Corner

Sharp Corner

2025

as Josh McCall

6.1
Acting

A dedicated family man becomes obsessed with saving the lives of the car accident victims on the sharp corner in front of his house – an obsession tha...

King Ivory

King Ivory

2025

as George 'Smiley' Greene

4.5
Acting

Based on extensive research involving law enforcement and gang members, a never-before-seen, authentic look inside the underworld of fentanyl traffick...

Long Day's Journey into Night

Long Day's Journey into Night

2025

as Jamie Tyrone

Acting

Over the course of a day, a married couple, Mary and James Tyrone, and their two sons, Jamie and Edmund, grapple with Mary's morphine addiction and co...

Finestkind

Finestkind

2023

as Tom

6.9
Acting

Two brothers from opposite sides of the tracks are reunited as adults. Desperate circumstances force them into a deal with an organized crime syndicat...

Emancipation

Emancipation

2022

as Jim Fassel

7.8
Acting

Inspired by the gripping true story of a man who would do anything for his family—and for freedom. When Peter, an enslaved man, risks his life to esca...

Medieval

Medieval

2022

as Jan Žižka

6.9
Acting

The story of fifteenth century Czech icon and warlord, Jan Zizka, who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire.

Hustle

Hustle

2022

as Vince Merrick

7.7
Acting

After discovering a once-in-a-lifetime player with a rocky past abroad, a down on his luck basketball scout takes it upon himself to bring the phenom ...

The Survivor

The Survivor

2022

as Harry Haft

6.8
Acting

Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, he attempts to use hig...

The Survivor

The Survivor

2022

Executive Producer

6.8
Producing

Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, he attempts to use hig...

The Contractor

The Contractor

2022

as Mike

6.4
Acting

After being involuntarily discharged from the U.S. Special Forces, James Harper decides to support his family by joining a private contracting organiz...

Love, Antosha

Love, Antosha

2019

as Self

7.4
Acting

From a prolific career in film and television, Anton Yelchin left an indelible legacy as an actor. Through his journals and other writings, his photog...

Galveston

Galveston

2018

as Roy Cady

6.1
Acting

After a violent encounter, Roy finds Rocky and sees something in her eyes that prompts a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he flees to Galves...

Leave No Trace

Leave No Trace

2018

as Will

6.8
Acting

A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact ...

Hostiles

Hostiles

2017

as Philip Wills

6.9
Acting

A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family thr...

The Dinner

The Dinner

2017

Thanks

4.5

Two brothers and their wives meet up at a haute-cuisine restaurant to discuss what to do about a horrific crime that their sons committed together. As...

Rock'n Roll

Rock'n Roll

2017

as Ben Foster

5.2
Acting

Guillaume Canet is told by a young co-star that he's no longer Rock'n' Roll and can't sell films anymore. He then tries to prove her wrong and gets he...

Inferno

Inferno

2016

as Bertrand Zobrist

6.1
Acting

After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.

Hell or High Water

Hell or High Water

2016

as Tanner Howard

7.3
Acting

A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.

Warcraft

Warcraft

2016

as Medivh (Guardian)

6.4
Acting

The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home ...

The Finest Hours

The Finest Hours

2016

as Richard Livesey

6.6
Acting

The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.

The Program

The Program

2015

as Lance Armstrong

6.4
Acting

An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. ...

National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire

National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire

2014

as Stanley Kowalski

7.7
Acting

As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unfo...

Until We Could

2014

as Narrator (Voice)

7.0
Acting

Until We Could, a gorgeous new video poem written by Richard Blanco, celebrates love and the freedom to marry for same-sex couples. The film is narrat...

Lone Survivor

Lone Survivor

2013

as Petty Officer Second Class Matthew "Axe" Axelson

7.4
Acting

Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanista...

Kill Your Darlings

Kill Your Darlings

2013

as William Burroughs

7.0
Acting

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

Ain't Them Bodies Saints

Ain't Them Bodies Saints

2013

as Patrick Wheeler

6.1
Acting

Bob Muldoon and Ruth Guthrie, an impassioned young outlaw couple on an extended crime spree, are finally apprehended by lawmen after a shootout in the...

Love, Marilyn

Love, Marilyn

2013

as Self

6.6
Acting

Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote ...

360

360

2012

as Tyler

5.7
Acting

A disparate group of characters unknowingly bond by the sexual choices they make. Consumed by loneliness, a British businessman ponders a rendezvous w...

Contraband

Contraband

2012

as Sebastian Abney

6.3
Acting

When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago—smuggling—to repay the debt. But t...

Rampart

Rampart

2011

as General Terry

5.4
Acting

The story follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles to take care of his family, and fights for his own...

Rampart

Rampart

2011

Producer

5.4
Producing

The story follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles to take care of his family, and fights for his own...

Here

Here

2011

as Will Shepard

5.1
Acting

Set against the gorgeous landscape of Armenia, Here chronicles a brief but intense relationship between an American satellite-mapping engineer (Foster...

The Mechanic

The Mechanic

2011

as Steve McKenna

6.5
Acting

Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code requiring professional perfection and total detachment. One of an elite group of ...

The Messenger

The Messenger

2009

as Will Montgomery

6.8
Acting

Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is pa...

Pandorum

Pandorum

2009

as Bower

6.6
Acting

Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon di...

Blink

Blink

2009

as AJ

Acting

A rumination on the dangers of first crushes, the weight of clean guns and the habits of sea cucumbers.

Birds of America

Birds of America

2008

as Jay

5.4
Acting

A regular guy struggles with a repressive home and professional life, as well as making amends for the trouble his free-spirited brother and sister ca...

30 Days of Night

30 Days of Night

2007

as The Stranger

6.4
Acting

This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last ra...

3:10 to Yuma

3:10 to Yuma

2007

as Charlie Prince

7.2
Acting

In Arizona in the late 1800s, infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is ...

X-Men: The Last Stand

X-Men: The Last Stand

2006

as Warren Worthington III / Angel

6.4
Acting

When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mut...

Alpha Dog

Alpha Dog

2006

as Jake Mazursky

6.7
Acting

Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don'...

Hostage

Hostage

2005

as Mars Krupcheck

6.3
Acting

When a mafia accountant is taken hostage on his beat, a police officer – wracked by guilt from a prior stint as a negotiator – must negotiate the stan...

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

2004

as Fleshy Boy

5.9
Acting

Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becom...

The Punisher

The Punisher

2004

as Specker Dave

6.4
Acting

When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- a ruthless vigilante willing to go to any length t...

Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork

2003

Acting

A short behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "Northfork" (2003).

11:14

11:14

2003

as Eddie

6.8
Acting

Tells the seemingly random yet vitally connected story of a set of incidents that all converge one evening at 11:14pm. The story follows the chain of ...

Northfork

Northfork

2003

as Cod

6.0
Acting

The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town,...

Bang Bang You're Dead

Bang Bang You're Dead

2003

as Trevor Adams

7.0
Acting

A troubled and bullied high school student fights against judgement from his community after threatening to bomb the football team.

Phone Booth

Phone Booth

2003

as Big Q (uncredited)

6.9
Acting

A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light f...

Big Trouble

Big Trouble

2002

as Matt Arnold

6.1
Acting

The story of how a mysterious suitcase brings together, and changes, the lives of a divorced dad, an unhappy housewife, two hitmen, a pair of street t...

The Laramie Project

The Laramie Project

2002

as Aaron Kreifels

6.3
Acting

"The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage versio...

Get Over It

Get Over It

2001

as Berke Landers

5.6
Acting

When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long girlfriend, Allison, he soon begins to lose it. But with the h...

Liberty Heights

Liberty Heights

1999

as Ben Kurtzman

6.7
Acting

This semi-autobiographical film by Barry Levinson follows various members of the Kurtzman clan, a Jewish family living in suburban Baltimore during th...

Breakfast with Einstein

Breakfast with Einstein

1998

as Ryan

2.4
Acting

The outrageously wisecracking Cheech Marin unleashes the laughs as the voice of a smart-alecky dog named Einstein who's out to find himself a new fami...

I've Been Waiting for You

I've Been Waiting for You

1998

as Charlie

4.8
Acting

When a New England high schooler is mysteriously murdered, the town blames Sarah, the new girl who recently moved into a purportedly haunted house and...

Kounterfeit

Kounterfeit

1996

as Travis

4.5
Acting

Flush with $3 million in counterfeit bills, a pair of small-time criminals hope to make the big time by trading it in for a cool million in authentic ...

Floodplain

N/A

Acting

A man who must return to his hometown to help prevent catastrophic flood and confront the mistakes from his past.

Motor City

N/A

Acting

A recently released felon seeks revenge against those who framed him and put him in jail.

Untitled Christy Martin Biopic

Untitled Christy Martin Biopic

N/A

as James V. Martin

Acting

The true story of formidable Christy Martin, who rose to fame as America’s most successful female boxer in the 1990s. A naturally gifted fighter, Chri...

The Stalemate

N/A

Acting

A robber and sheriff, out of bullets and far from town, must negotiate their way out of an absurd, unending chase in the Old West.

Cowboy

N/A

Acting

Follows a traveling rodeo and the group of entertainers within it as they deal with the harsh realities of their chosen careers.

Untitled William S. Burroughs Project

N/A

Director, Screenplay

Directing Writing

The story of Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs, who found himself caught in an unusual love triangle with his muse, Joan Vollmer, and an Ame...

The Stalemate

N/A

Executive Producer

Producing

A robber and sheriff, out of bullets and far from town, must negotiate their way out of an absurd, unending chase in the Old West.