---
name: "Ben Hardy"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ben-hardy"
fi1m_id: "ben-hardy"
imdb_id: "nm5228887"
tmdb_id: 1452045
wikidata_id: "Q16300642"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "2 January 1991"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 55
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-05T13:55:29.877459+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ben Hardy

## Identity

Ben Hardy

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ben-hardy
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ben-hardy
- **IMDb ID:** nm5228887
- **TMDB ID:** 1452045
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16300642
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hardy_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16300642, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5228887/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1452045

Actor. Born 2 January 1991 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 2 January 1991, Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK
- **Active:** 2016–present
- **Also known as:** Ben Jones
- **Average Fi1m score:** 55, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 52 (2), 2020s 58 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 53 to 52 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 3 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 3 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Action 1, Drama 1, Fantasy 1, Horror 1, Music 1, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 9 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,954m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hardy_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16300642, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5228887/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1452045

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Voyeurs*](https://film.one/film/the-voyeurs.md) (62)
- **HBO Max:** [*The Conjuring: Last Rites*](https://film.one/film/the-conjuring-last-rites.md) (55)

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## Fi1m on Ben Hardy

> Ben Hardy is the actor in the ensemble who has done the homework: the drumming is real, the mannerisms are studied, and the part is usually the friend standing beside the lead. He has been good in small roles for a decade and is overdue a large one.

Watch the drummer. In *Bohemian Rhapsody* (2018) the camera belongs to Rami Malek, and so does the film, but behind him at the Live Aid finale Ben Hardy is keeping time as Roger Taylor, and keeping it properly. Hardy has admitted how he got the job: "I told him I could play the drums—which I couldn’t at the time." He then learned, ten hours a day, so as not to be found out. We spent more of that finale watching the kit than we meant to, and it was because the hands, the shoulders and the face were all in time with one another, which is rarer on screen than it sounds. Our review called his Taylor the one who throws things, and that is fair; the script gives the band a sitcom shape. But the work is there under the type.

The career has the shape of a man waiting for the parts to catch up with the preparation. Two years of *EastEnders* (2013–2015) as Peter Beale, then straight into a studio ensemble as Archangel in *X-Men: Apocalypse* (2016), the first of two films with Bryan Singer. *Only the Brave* (2017) gave him a supporting role in a fact-based ensemble and *6 Underground* another in a louder one. Since *Bohemian Rhapsody* he has moved towards smaller films, *Unicorns* and *Love at First Sight* (both 2023), where the billing is higher and the rooms are smaller, and then back to a franchise with *The Conjuring: Last Rites* (2025).

The method is research. He studies archive footage, meets the people he is playing where he can, and has likened acting to anthropology, which is a grander word than the results need but describes them accurately: he arrives knowing how the person stands. The limit has been the parts. In *Last Rites* he is Tony Spera, at Judy Warren's side, and that clause is nearly the whole of the role. Michael Chaves's film is about the Warrens' feelings, and Hardy is one of the people they have feelings near. It is a decent, unfussy piece of standing about. Nobody asked him for more, and there is no way of telling from the screen what he might have done with it.

The lead in *Unicorns* is the part that might tell us, and since we have not reviewed it we will only note that it is the first time in years the film has been his to carry. He has said he wants roles he is not sure he can pull off. On the evidence of the drums, that is the right instinct: he does the ten hours and then looks as though he never needed them. Somebody should hand him a part that takes twenty.

## Biography

Ben Hardy (born Ben Jones) is an English actor. He trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and made his professional debut in 2012.

Hardy gained recognition playing Peter Beale in the BBC soap opera *EastEnders* (2013–2015). His film roles include Warren Worthington III / Archangel in *X-Men: Apocalypse* (2016), Wade Parker in *Only the Brave* (2017), Roger Taylor in *Bohemian Rhapsody* (2018), Four in *6 Underground* (2019) and Tony Spera in *The Conjuring: Last Rites* (2025). He has also appeared in *Mary Shelley* (2017), *The Voyeurs* (2021) and *Love at First Sight* (2023).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *The Conjuring: Last Rites* (2025), Fi1m 55, as Tony Spera — [page](https://film.one/film/the-conjuring-last-rites.md)
- *The Voyeurs* (2021), Fi1m 62, as Seb — [page](https://film.one/film/the-voyeurs.md)
- *Bohemian Rhapsody* (2018), Fi1m 55, as Roger Taylor — [page](https://film.one/film/bohemian-rhapsody.md)
- *X-Men: Apocalypse* (2016), Fi1m 48, as Angel — [page](https://film.one/film/x-men-apocalypse.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Conjuring: Last Rites* (2025), as Tony Spera — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/the-conjuring-last-rites.md)
- *Unicorns* (2024), as Luke · Associate Producer
- *Love at First Sight* (2023), as Oliver Jones
- *The Girl Before* (2021), series, as Simon Wakefield
- *The Voyeurs* (2021), as Seb — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/the-voyeurs.md)
- *Pixie* (2020), as Frank McCullen
- *6 Underground* (2019), as Four
- *Bohemian Rhapsody* (2018), as Roger Taylor — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/bohemian-rhapsody.md)
- *The Woman in White* (2018), series, as Walter Hartright
- *Only the Brave* (2017), as Wade Parker
- *Mary Shelley* (2017), as Dr. John Polidori
- *X-Men: Apocalypse* (2016), as Angel — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/x-men-apocalypse.md)
- *EastEnders* (1985), series, as Peter Beale — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)
- *Recovery*, Actor
- *Die by Night*, as Barry
- *Eleven Missing Days*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Ben Hardy and Alexandra Shipp speaking at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con International, for "X-Men: Apocalypse", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, ](https://film.one/media/person/8018/gallery-0c51686b46b4.jpg) Ben Hardy and Alexandra Shipp speaking at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con International, for "X-Men: Apocalypse", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego,  — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Ben_Hardy_%26_Alexandra_Shipp_%2819733739646%29.jpg/1280px-Ben_Hardy_%26_Alexandra_Shipp_%2819733739646%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ben Hardy](https://film.one/media/person/8018/gallery-5fe8de429d7d.jpg) Ben Hardy — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Ben_Hardy_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Cast of X-men Apocalypse at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International. (Top:Bottom: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas ](https://film.one/media/person/8018/gallery-afce675570ce.jpg) Cast of X-men Apocalypse at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International. (Top:Bottom: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas  — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Cast_of_X-Men_Apocalypse.jpg/1280px-Cast_of_X-Men_Apocalypse.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ben Hardy and Alexandra Shipp speaking at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con International, for "X-Men: Apocalypse", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, ](https://film.one/media/person/8018/gallery-15350cc83715.jpg) Ben Hardy and Alexandra Shipp speaking at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con International, for "X-Men: Apocalypse", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego,  — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/SDCC_2015_-_Ben_Hardy_%26_Alexandra_Shipp_%2819759913765%29.jpg/1280px-SDCC_2015_-_Ben_Hardy_%26_Alexandra_Shipp_%2819759913765%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ben Hardy](https://film.one/media/person/8018/gallery-34a555a0b1fc.jpg) Ben Hardy — Image via TMDB
- ![Ben Hardy](https://film.one/media/person/8018/gallery-b228695aed71.jpg) Ben Hardy — Image via TMDB
- ![Ben Hardy](https://film.one/media/person/8018/gallery-b985306286ba.jpg) Ben Hardy — Image via TMDB
- ![Olivia Munn, Ben Hardy, Alexandra Shipp and Simon Kinberg speaking at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con International, for "X-Men: Apocalypse", at the San Diego Conv](https://film.one/media/person/8018/gallery-2d139d05ddb0.jpg) Olivia Munn, Ben Hardy, Alexandra Shipp and Simon Kinberg speaking at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con International, for "X-Men: Apocalypse", at the San Diego Conv — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/SDCC_2015_-_Olivia_Munn%2C_Ben_Hardy%2C_Alexandra_Shipp_%26_Simon_Kinberg_%2819760355045%29.jpg/1280px-SDCC_2015_-_Olivia_Munn%2C_Ben_Hardy%2C_Alexandra_Shipp_%26_Simon_Kinberg_%2819760355045%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ben Hardy](https://film.one/media/person/8018/gallery-78e1c18b320c.jpg) Ben Hardy — Image via TMDB

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