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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Sharp Corner
2025
as Josh McCall
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
2025
as George 'Smiley' Greene
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
2025
as Jamie Tyrone
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
2023
as Tom
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
2022
as Jim Fassel
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
2022
as Jan Žižka
The story of fifteenth century Czech icon and warlord, Jan Zizka, who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire.

Hustle
2022
as Vince Merrick
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
2022
as Harry Haft
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
2022
Executive Producer
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
2022
as Mike
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
2019
as Self
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
2018
as Roy Cady
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
2018
as Will
A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact ...

Hostiles
2017
as Philip Wills
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
2017
Thanks
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
2017
as Ben Foster
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
2016
as Bertrand Zobrist
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
2016
as Tanner Howard
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
2016
as Medivh (Guardian)
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
2016
as Richard Livesey
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
2015
as Lance Armstrong
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
2014
as Stanley Kowalski
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)
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
2013
as Petty Officer Second Class Matthew "Axe" Axelson
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
2013
as William Burroughs
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
2013
as Patrick Wheeler
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
2013
as Self
Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote ...

360
2012
as Tyler
A disparate group of characters unknowingly bond by the sexual choices they make. Consumed by loneliness, a British businessman ponders a rendezvous w...

Contraband
2012
as Sebastian Abney
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
2011
as General Terry
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
2011
Producer
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
2011
as Will Shepard
Set against the gorgeous landscape of Armenia, Here chronicles a brief but intense relationship between an American satellite-mapping engineer (Foster...

The Mechanic
2011
as Steve McKenna
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
2009
as Will Montgomery
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
2009
as Bower
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
2009
as AJ
A rumination on the dangers of first crushes, the weight of clean guns and the habits of sea cucumbers.

Birds of America
2008
as Jay
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
2007
as The Stranger
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
2007
as Charlie Prince
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
2006
as Warren Worthington III / Angel
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
2006
as Jake Mazursky
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
2005
as Mars Krupcheck
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
2004
as Fleshy Boy
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
2004
as Specker Dave
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
A short behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "Northfork" (2003).

11:14
2003
as Eddie
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
2003
as Cod
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
2003
as Trevor Adams
A troubled and bullied high school student fights against judgement from his community after threatening to bomb the football team.

Phone Booth
2003
as Big Q (uncredited)
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
2002
as Matt Arnold
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
2002
as Aaron Kreifels
"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
2001
as Berke Landers
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
1999
as Ben Kurtzman
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
1998
as Ryan
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
1998
as Charlie
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
1996
as Travis
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
A man who must return to his hometown to help prevent catastrophic flood and confront the mistakes from his past.
Motor City
N/A
A recently released felon seeks revenge against those who framed him and put him in jail.

Untitled Christy Martin Biopic
N/A
as James V. Martin
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
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
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
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
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.