---
name: "Ben Platt"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ben-platt"
fi1m_id: "ben-platt"
imdb_id: "nm4805317"
tmdb_id: 1107296
wikidata_id: "Q16236455"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 September 1993"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-24T02:44:19.982835+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 Platt

## Identity

Ben Platt

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ben-platt
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ben-platt
- **IMDb ID:** nm4805317
- **TMDB ID:** 1107296
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16236455
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Platt, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16236455, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4805317/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1107296

Actor. Born 24 September 1993 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 September 1993, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Active:** 2012–present
- **Also known as:** Benjamin Schiff Platt, בן פלאט, ベン・プラット
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 77 (1), 2020s 68 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 70 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 2 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Drama 1, Music 1, Romance 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 3 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $120m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Platt, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16236455, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4805317/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1107296

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*Pitch Perfect*](https://film.one/film/pitch-perfect.md) (77)
- **Disney+:** [*Theater Camp*](https://film.one/film/theater-camp.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Ben Platt

> Ben Platt makes awkwardness hard to miss, with precise singing and performances that can be too emphatic for a close-up. We like him best when that excess is the joke, as it is in *Theater Camp*.

In *Theater Camp* (2023), Ben Platt’s Amos Klobuchar teaches drama with no apparent suspicion that he might be too much. Platt does not soften him or ask us to admire the performer’s good sense behind the character’s lack of it. We laughed at Amos because his self-importance goes unchecked, including by the actor playing him. We rate that willingness to be ridiculous, particularly in a film so fond of the people it is teasing.

He was already playing an outsider in *Pitch Perfect* (2012), as the magic-obsessed a cappella singer Benji Applebaum. We liked its musical invention, which does much to keep a familiar competition story moving. It remains a sound recommendation, though our enthusiasm is for the ensemble rather than Platt alone. The role that defined him came on stage, originating the anxious title character in the Broadway production of *Dear Evan Hansen* (2016).

Reprising Evan in the film of *Dear Evan Hansen* (2021) exposed the difficulty of bringing that stage performance close to a camera. The physical tics and emphatic posture attracted criticism for making a high-school character harder to believe. His precision with voice and body can make anxiety unmistakable, but it can also leave us noticing the acting. A performance does not become more intimate simply because we can see it better.

Amos gives those emphatic habits a comic purpose. Platt co-wrote *Theater Camp* with Molly Gordon, Noah Galvin and Nick Lieberman; Gordon and Lieberman direct, and Gordon plays his fellow drama teacher Rebecca-Diane. Their familiarity with children’s theatre gives the comedy conviction, although we wanted a less indulgent script. The thin middle is a writing problem, and Platt shares responsibility for it.

There is a useful contrast in Ayo Edebiri’s Janet, who teaches stage combat by asking the children what they think it is. She does almost nothing and gets the biggest laughs, while Platt commits himself to Amos’s excesses. We would like to see him trust that smaller scale more often, without losing the nerve that makes Amos work. Start with *Theater Camp*, provided bursts of comedy will do and a consistently sharp script is not a requirement.

## Biography

Ben Platt is an American actor and singer. Born Benjamin Schiff Platt on 24 September 1993 in Los Angeles, he is the son of film and theatre producer Marc Platt. He began his career in musical theatre as a child and appeared in productions including The Sound of Music (2006) and The Book of Mormon (2012–2015).

Platt originated the title role in the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen (2015–2017), winning the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical, as well as a Grammy and a Daytime Emmy. He reprised the role in the 2021 film adaptation.

His film credits include the Pitch Perfect series (2012–2015) and Theater Camp (2023), on which he also served as writer and producer. He has starred in the Netflix series The Politician (2019–) and appeared in Ricki and the Flash (2015) and The People We Hate at the Wedding (2022).

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Beauty* (2026), Fi1m 65, as Manny — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-beauty.md)
- *Theater Camp* (2023), Fi1m 70, as Amos Klobuchar — [page](https://film.one/film/theater-camp.md)
- *Pitch Perfect* (2012), Fi1m 77, as Benji Applebaum — [page](https://film.one/film/pitch-perfect.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

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

- *The Beauty* (2026), series, as Manny — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-beauty.md)
- *Chow* (2024), as Mike
- *Theater Camp* (2023), as Amos Klobuchar · Writer, Producer, Original Film Writer, Songs — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/theater-camp.md)
- *The People We Hate at the Wedding* (2022), as Paul
- *Dear Evan Hansen* (2021), as Evan Hansen
- *The Premise* (2021), series, as Ethan Streiber
- *Broken Diamonds* (2021), as Scott
- *25 Years of Rent: Measured in Love* (2021), Actor
- *Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish)* (2020), as Georgie
- *Ben Platt: Live from Radio City Music Hall* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Theater Camp* (2020), as Angelo Bassett · Writer, Producer
- *Run This Town* (2020), as Bram
- *The Politician* (2019), series, as Payton Hobart · Executive Producer
- *Drunk Parents* (2019), as Jason Johnson
- *The Other Two* (2019), series, as Ben Platt
- *Will & Grace* (2017), series, as Blake
- *The Female Brain* (2017), as Joel
- *Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk* (2016), as Josh
- *Ricki and the Flash* (2015), as Daniel
- *Pitch Perfect 2* (2015), as Benji Applebaum
- *Pitch Perfect* (2012), as Benji Applebaum — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/pitch-perfect.md)
- *Red Riding Hood* (2006), as Boy Scout #1
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, as Blake (voice) — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)
- *Merrily We Roll Along*, as Charley Kringas
- *The Technique*, Actor
- *I Am Not Your Mother*, as Ollie
- *Last Dance*, as Songs

## Gallery

- ![Ben Platt at the Opening Night of "Old Friends" on Broadway, 2025](https://film.one/media/person/16004/gallery-051ce874e6f2.jpg) Ben Platt at the Opening Night of "Old Friends" on Broadway, 2025 — PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/BenPlatt-byPhilipRomano.jpg/1280px-BenPlatt-byPhilipRomano.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ben Platt in an elevator in 2017.](https://film.one/media/person/16004/gallery-59e2cb863d77.jpg) Ben Platt in an elevator in 2017. — Kirstenschleicher, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/BenPlattInAnElevator.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Ben Platt and Cynthia Erivo look over a special collections display during a tour of the Library of Congress, December 4, 2023. Photo by Elaina Finkelstein/Libr](https://film.one/media/person/16004/gallery-e7e1005a43b5.jpg) Ben Platt and Cynthia Erivo look over a special collections display during a tour of the Library of Congress, December 4, 2023. Photo by Elaina Finkelstein/Libr — Library of Congress Life, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Ben_Platt.jpg/1280px-Ben_Platt.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![The 71st Tony Award winner for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical, Ben Platt, and Tony Award winner for Best Performance by an Actress  (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/16004/gallery-acf1ed3b355d.jpg) The 71st Tony Award winner for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical, Ben Platt, and Tony Award winner for Best Performance by an Actress  (2017) — The Tony Awards on YouTube, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Ben_Platt_%26_Rachel_Bay_Jones_with_their_Tony_Awards.jpg/1280px-Ben_Platt_%26_Rachel_Bay_Jones_with_their_Tony_Awards.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ben Platt](https://film.one/media/person/16004/gallery-5b35c44a9149.jpg) Ben Platt — Image via TMDB
- ![Ben Platt](https://film.one/media/person/16004/gallery-d58160131f23.jpg) Ben Platt — Image via TMDB
- ![Ben Platt](https://film.one/media/person/16004/gallery-75c24435e46b.jpg) Ben Platt — Image via TMDB
- ![Star of Pitch Perfect. NYC Oct '16 (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/16004/gallery-505c5758e00d.jpg) Star of Pitch Perfect. NYC Oct '16 (2016) — Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Ben_Platt_%2830503789031%29.jpg/1280px-Ben_Platt_%2830503789031%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ben Platt, American theater actor, the 71st Tony Award winner on #TheatreInspires at The Tony Awards YouTube channel. (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/16004/gallery-68f1444de097.jpg) Ben Platt, American theater actor, the 71st Tony Award winner on #TheatreInspires at The Tony Awards YouTube channel. (2017) — The Tony Awards on YouTube, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Ben_Platt_June_2017.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Ben Platt](https://film.one/media/person/16004/gallery-2a22e99c6012.jpg) Ben Platt — Image via TMDB
- ![Ben Platt](https://film.one/media/person/16004/gallery-bab523de36f8.jpg) Ben Platt — Image via TMDB
- ![Ben Platt](https://film.one/media/person/16004/gallery-0c3ea5b368f3.jpg) Ben Platt — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 4 won

- Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album 2018: Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album (won)
- Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical 2017: Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical (won)
- Time 100 2017: Time 100 (won)
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical 2017: Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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