Biography
Benedict John Greenwood (born 31 July 1969), better known as Ben Chaplin, is a British actor. He is best known for his roles in films, including Feast of July (1995), The Thin Red Line (1998), Lost Souls (2000), Birthday Girl (2001), Murder by Numbers (2002), Stage Beauty (2004), The New World (2005), Me and Orson Welles (2008), London Boulevard (2010), Twixt (2011), War Book (2014), Little Boy(2015) Snowden (2016), and 5 September (2024). His TV roles include Soldier Soldier (1991), World Witho...
Known For
Complete Filmography

September 5
2024
as Marvin Bader
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.

Family
2024
11-year-old Johanna’s world is falling apart. She’s just moved across the country for her father Harry’s medical treatment, and as her father declines...

The Dig
2021
as Stuart Piggott
As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the ec...

Mood Music
2020
as Bernard
In a top London recording studio, Cat, a young songwriter, her producer Bernard, their lawyers and psychotherapists go to battle over who owns a hit s...

Roads
2019
as Paul
A young man from the Congo in search of his brother attempts to cross Europe's borders. In Morocco, he teams up with a sharp-witted British runaway wh...

The Children Act
2018
as Kevin Henry
In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite hi...

National Theatre Live: Consent
2017
as Edward
Why is Justice blind? Is she impartial? Or is she blinkered? Friends take opposing briefs in a rape case. The key witness is a woman whose life seems ...

When Cary Grant Introduced Timothy Leary to LSD
2017
as Cary Grant
Cary Grant sits in his plush dressing room at Culver Studios, waiting to be called to set by his director, Alfred Hitchcock. Suddenly he gets a visito...

Snowden
2016
as Robert Tibbo
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.

The Legend of Tarzan
2016
as Captain Moulle
Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.

War Book
2015
as Gary
Government officials practice their response and decisions in a simulated escalation of nuclear threat.

Little Boy
2015
as Ben Eagle
An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love...

Cinderella
2015
as Cinderella's Father
When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, ...

The Wipers Times
2013
as Roberts
When Captain Fred Roberts discovered a printing press in the ruins of Ypres, Belgium in 1916, he decided to publish a satirical magazine called The Wi...

Twixt
2011
as Edgar Allan Poe
A struggling horror writer visiting a small town on a book tour gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he i...

London Boulevard
2010
as Billy Norton
A parolee falls for a reclusive movie star while trying to evade a ruthless gangster.

Ways to Live Forever
2010
as Daniel MacQueen
Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he...

Heavy Rain
2010
as Himself
A powerful short documentary inspired by the launch of the genre breaking PlayStation 3 title HEAVY RAIN. Directed by the acclaimed filmmaker Neil L...

Dorian Gray
2009
as Basil Hallward
Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton, handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance,...

Me and Orson Welles
2008
as George Coulouris
New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.

The Water Horse
2007
as Lewis Mowbray
A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.

Two Weeks
2006
as Keith Bergman
In this bittersweet comedy, four adult siblings gather at their dying mother's house in North Carolina for what they expect to be a quick, last goodby...

Chromophobia
2006
as Trent
Encouraged by his editor to seek 'sexy stories that sell', a reporter preys upon the private life of an erstwhile friend, with disastrous results.

The New World
2005
as Robinson
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.

Stage Beauty
2004
as George Villiars, Duke of Buckingham
Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor's success at playing women. And because th...

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
as Self
Rosy-Fingered Dawn is a film on Terrence Malick. It is about the making of BADLANDS, DAYS OF HEAVEN, THE THIN RED LINE and the personal involvement of...

The Touch
2002
as Eric
A sister and brother, the last heirs of a family of acrobats, are called upon by a Buddhist monk sect to retrieve an artifact that their ancestors hav...

Murder by Numbers
2002
as Sam Kennedy
Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant...

Birthday Girl
2001
as John
John is a mild-mannered banker who has never been lucky in love. Fed up with waiting for the right girl to come along, John takes a chance on a Russia...

Lost Souls
2000
as Peter Kelson
A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To defeat the prophesy, she must convince a respected...

The Thin Red Line
1998
as Pvt. Jack Bell
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselve...

Washington Square
1997
as Morris Townsend
Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must de...

The Truth About Cats & Dogs
1996
as Brian
A successful veterinarian and radio show host with low self-esteem asks her model friend to impersonate her when a handsome man wants to see her.

Feast of July
1995
as Con Wainwright
After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three handsome sons, tragic consequences result.

A Few Short Journeys of the Heart
1994
as Fierce Man/Tim Bone
A surreal and nightmarish selection of short stories derived from the cult collection Dirty Faxes, refracted through the neurosis of a middle-aged wri...

The Remains of the Day
1993
as Charlie, Head Footman
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with...

After the Dance
1992
as Cyril Carter
David and Joan's life has been one continuous party, but their marriage is loveless. Suddenly a young girl appears in their world and announces that s...
Bye Bye Baby
1992
as Leo Wiseman
Exploring the often hilarious world of a young Jewish lad conscript and how he survives the Russians, the Royal Navy and the relationship with his gir...

A Fatal Inversion
1992
as Matthew
Adaptation of the Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) novel. After Adam inherits a country house from his great uncle, he and his friend Rufus decide to s...
Panic Carefully
N/A
Described as a paranoid thriller about a hunt for a cyber-terrorist in the vein of Mr. Robot and The Silence of the Lambs.