Biography

Ben Schnetzer was born in New York, to actors Stephen Schnetzer and Nancy Snyder. He began acting in his teens, appearing in the TV drama Happy Town (2010), but, in his own words, wanted to give acting "a proper shot" and moved to London in 2010 to study drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Graduating three years later, he went almost immediately into film work and in three movies released in Britain in 2014 showed his total versatility and superb mastery of accents, as a German Jewish fugitive in The Book Thief (2013), a snobbish Anglo-Greek student in The Riot Club (2014) and committed Northern Irish gay activist Mark Ashton in Pride (2014).
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Messy dark hair

Graduate of Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, UK.

Son of actors Stephen Schnetzer and Nancy Snyder.

His ancestry includes German, Irish, English, Scottish, and, from his Oran-born paternal grandmother, Spanish-Algerian Jewish.

Brother is Max Schnetzer.

It's very important to let go of the finished product because I think, as actors, our job has nothing to do with the finished product. It's process-oriented art. The day I start caring more about the finished product is the day that I'll become a producer or an editor or a director.