- Born
- Birth nameBenjamin Timothy J Northover
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Benn Northover grew up on the east coast of England. Notable film roles include Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Baztán film Trilogy, indie hit House of Boys and Mike Figgis' Lucrezia Borgia. His early screen appearances included TV dramas Silent Witness and Hostage to Terror, for which he received The Times Critics Choice. Northover has narrated several documentary films including the 2015 feature documentary Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire, alongside Robert Duvall and Bernardo Bertolucci.
- IMDb mini biography by: John Cassidy
- He is also an accomplished filmmaker and photographer, his work has been screened in several film festivals and galleries around the world.
- During the filming of Hostage to Terror in India, Benn got so sick that his body weight decreased rapidly. He later commented in an interview on BBC Radio that although it was a grueling experience he felt focused and forced himself to keep filming, it worked well for his role as someone very ill in captivity.
- He attended both film and drama school.
- Benn received The Sunday time critics choice (2008) for his performance in the gritty hostage drama Kidnapped up Abroad: Hostage to Terror, based on the true life events surrounding the kidnapping of Rhys Partridge and Bela Muss in India in 1994.
- He is also a long time collaborator with legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas.
- I guess I'm interested in characters who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That may be in themselves or something they're up against. People are a web of contradictions and that's something I've noticed since I was a kid.
- Acting's always felt like a kind of creature that lays dormant and collects observations when I'm not working. And then when I'm actually doing it, it just rises up. But everything I do is more about curiosity and investigation than it is about performance.
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