- Birth nameBen Harris
- Height6′ 3″ (1.91 m)
- Benny has appeared in movies and TV shows in the UK and USA. He has a natural blend of dramatic and comedic skills supported by his training from the East 15 school in London. He was a finalist in Jimmy Carr's Comedy Idol national competition in Britain and is a conservatory graduate of The Second City Chicago.
After performing stand up, improv and making various TV appearances in the UK he left London in order to push his career further and moved to Chicago. From 2006 - 2008 he worked as an intern to the producers and trained as an improviser/sketch writer at the legendary Second City Theatre in Chicago eventually becoming a conservatory graduate.
In 2008 he moved to Los Angeles and has since starred in both dramatic and comedic roles in film and television. Credits in Hollywood include movies with Chevy Chase, multiple episodes of a sketch/improv comedy TV show and a lead role in a drama released in cinemas across Europe which played at many international film festivals.
Benny performs shows at the Second City Hollywood, stand up and is set to star in a Hollywood theatre production for the Lythgoe Family (American Idol, So you think you can Dance).
- IMDb mini biography by: Edward Albertson
- His father, a dock worker from South London, worked as a stunt man in the John Wayne movie Brannigan shooting scenes in St Katharine Docks, London.
- Worked as a dialect coach to the Swedish actor Peter Stormare.
- Benny played various stand up comedy shows in London with fellow Essex comedian and actor Russell Brand.
- A keen soccer player, Benny has played for Southend United and was in the same Essex schoolboy squad with David Beckham.
- Benny was the lead singer in the alternative band Auntie Mable which won a national competition in the The Melody Maker magazine to support the indie band Mansun on tour.
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