Biography
Wesley Cook "Wes" Bentley (born September 4, 1978) is an American film actor known for his roles as Ricky Fitts in American Beauty (1999) and Seneca Crane in The Hunger Games (2012). Bentley was one of four subjects in the documentary My Big Break (2009), which covered his fame after American Beauty and struggles with substance abuse. Rebuilding his career, he starred in the premier of Venus in Fur by David Ives in the off-Broadway production in 2010, whose run was extended. Description above f...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Best of Enemies
2019
as Floyd Kelly
Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctan...
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2018
as Erik
When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the C...
Pete's Dragon
2016
as Jack
For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific ...
Broken Vows
2016
as Patrick
On her bachelorette-party weekend with friends in New Orleans, Tara falls for the darkly-sexy bartender Patrick. Waking in his bed the next morning, T...
Knight of Cups
2015
as Barry
Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in...
We Are Your Friends
2015
as James
Young Cole Carter dreams of hitting the big time as a Hollywood disc jockey, spending his days and nights hanging with buddies and working on the one ...
Amnesiac
2015
as Man
The story of a man who wakes up in bed suffering from memory loss after being in an accident, only to begin to suspect that his wife may not be his re...
Final Girl
2015
as William
Veronica, the new girl in town, is lured into the woods by a group of senior boys looking to make her a victim. But the boys don't know that Veronica'...
Interstellar
2014
as Doyle
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the va...
Welcome to Me
2014
as Gabe Ruskin
A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline personality disorder who wins the Mega Millions lottery, quits her meds and buys her own ta...
Cesar Chavez
2014
as Jerry Cohen
A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez t...
After the Fall
2014
as Bill
Bill Scanlin loses his job and embarks on a life of crime. As Bill stays ahead of the law, he discovers that sometimes the only thing worse than getti...
The Better Angels
2014
as Mr. Crawford
At an isolated log cabin in the harsh wilderness of Indiana circa 1817, the rhythms of love, tragedy, and the daily hardships of life on the developin...
3 Nights in the Desert
2014
as Travis
Three former band mates enter a cave after hearing it has the power to give them what they need. As unsettling desires rise to the surface, they all w...
Open
2014
as Evan Foster
Modern, provocative exploration of human sexuality and relationships.
Pioneer
2013
as Mike
Pioneer is set in the early '80s, at the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom. Enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea and the au...
Lovelace
2013
as Thomas - Photographer
Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.
Hidden Moon
2012
as Victor Brighton
After a mysterious, beautiful Latin woman named Miranda makes a dramatic appearance at the funeral of a man, shocking his affluent Southern California...
Stars In Shorts
2012
as Man
Seven short films, all of which feature name actors, including Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Colin Firth, Lily Tomlin, Keira Knightley, Jesse Tyler Fer...
The Time Being
2012
as Daniel
A struggling young artist accepts a series of bizarre commissions from an eccentric, dying millionaire who may be trying to either help further his ca...
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012
as Self (Seneca Crane)
A feature length, eight part documentary that covers everything from pre-production to adapting the source novel to casting to shooting to post and ma...
Rites of Passage
2012
as Benny
Anthropology students and their professor experience terror when they visit a sacred burial ground.
Hirokin: The Last Samurai
2012
as Hirokin
In a planet where humans must scavenge the post-apocalyptic barren wasteland, Hirokin – a reluctant warrior with a dark past – sets off on mission to ...
The Hunger Games
2012
as Seneca Crane
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to comp...
Gone
2012
as Peter Hood
Jill Conway is trying to rebuild her life after surviving a terrifying kidnapping attempt. Though she is having a difficult time, she takes small step...
Underworld: Awakening
2012
as Antigen Scientist (uncredited)
Having escaped years of imprisonment, vampire warrioress Selene finds herself in a changed world where humans have discovered the existence of both Va...
After-School Special
2011
as Man
A man and a woman have an awkward encounter at an indoor playground.
There Be Dragons
2011
as Manolo
Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged fathe...
Jonah Hex
2010
as Adleman Lusk
Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unle...
The Greims
2009
as Donnie Greims
The Tomb
2009
as Jonathan
Successful writer and scholar Jonathan Merrick falls under the spell of the irresistible, bewitchingly beautiful Ligeia. She's fighting a fatal illnes...
My Big Break
2009
as Himself
A documentary that captures celebrity in the making and the unsettling effects of fame on five friends who share a house in Hollywood.
Dolan's Cadillac
2009
as Robinson
Robinson, a once peaceful, law-abiding school teacher, has turned into an obsessed vengeance machine, intent on killing the man who murdered his wife ...
The Last Word
2008
as Evan
An odd-but-gifted poet, Evan Merck makes his living writing suicide notes for the soon-to-be departed. So when he meets Charlotte, the free-spirited s...
P2
2007
as Thomas
A businesswoman finds herself locked with a unhinged security guard in a parking garage after getting stuck working late on Christmas Eve.
Weirdsville
2007
as Royce
Dexter and Royce, two stoners in the small town of Weedsville, attempt to cover up the overdose of Royce's girlfriend Matilda. What leads from an old ...
Ghost Rider
2007
as Blackheart / Black King
In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Sim...
The Ungodly
2007
as Mickey Gravatski
When struggling filmmaker inadvertently records a notorious serial killer in the middle of a murderous act, he decides to use the footage to blackmail...
The Game of Their Lives
2005
as Walter Bahr
Based on a true story, this film tells the tale of the 1950 US soccer team who, against all odds, beat England 1 - 0 in the city of Belo Horizonte, Br...
The Four Feathers
2002
as Jack Durrance
A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends a...
Carving Out Our Name
2001
as Self
A desperate filmmaker with no budget, stars or crew begins to film his aspiring actor roommates and ends up with the only Hollywood success story caug...
Soul Survivors
2001
as Matt
A college freshman involved in a fatal car crash discovers she may not have survived after all when she becomes caught between the worlds of the livin...
The Claim
2000
as Donald Dalglish
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who ...
American Beauty: Look Closer...
2000
as Self
A promotional short documentary on the making of the film American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball.
American Beauty
1999
as Ricky Fitts
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daug...
The White River Kid
1999
as White River Kid
Two con men are traveling through the American South when they are held hostage by a serial killer who is running from the authorities.
Beloved
1998
as Schoolteacher's Nephew
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Belov...
Three Below Zero
1998
as Julian Fincher
People are trapped in the basement of a New York apartment building on the hottest day of the summer.