--- name: "Finn Bennett" canonical: "https://film.one/person/finn-bennett" fi1m_id: "finn-bennett" imdb_id: "nm3882611" tmdb_id: 1512452 wikidata_id: "Q124455435" roles: ["Actor"] born: "27 December 1999" reviewed_on_fi1m: 6 average_fi1m_score: 75 average_as: "actor" average_over: 6 updated: "2026-10-07T18:24:14.225810+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." --- # Finn Bennett ## Identity Finn Bennett - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/finn-bennett - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** finn-bennett - **IMDb ID:** nm3882611 - **TMDB ID:** 1512452 - **Wikidata ID:** Q124455435 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn_Bennett, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124455435, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3882611/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1512452 Actor. Born 27 December 1999 in Hackney, London, England, UK. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 27 December 1999, Hackney, London, England, UK - **Active:** 2011–present - **Also known as:** 菲恩·班尼特 - **Average Fi1m score:** 75, as actor, over 6 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 80 (3), 2020s 71 (3) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 75 across 4 titles - **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 5 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 4, Mystery 2, Action 1, Action & Adventure 1, Crime 1, Horror 1 - **Screen time:** 3 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $429m across 2 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn_Bennett, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124455435, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3882611/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1512452 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*True Detective*](https://film.one/tv/true-detective.md) (80), [*Warfare*](https://film.one/film/warfare.md) (76) - **Netflix:** [*Top Boy*](https://film.one/tv/top-boy.md) (81) - **Apple TV:** [*Kiri*](https://film.one/tv/kiri.md) (78) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Finn Bennett > Finn Bennett has spent his career so far as the young man who is waiting to be told what to do, and he is convincing enough at it that directors keep casting him that way. Whether he can take charge is the open question. In *Backrooms* (2026) he and Lukita Maxwell carry the camcorder half of the film, as Bobby and Kat, two young people who film everything because they have never known another way of looking at a room. It is a small part and it asks for the thing Bennett does most naturally: he watches, and he lets the older actors have the weight. Chiwetel Ejiofor does the film's best acting with his shoulders. Bennett does his with a camera between him and whatever is coming, and he is entirely plausible as someone who has never put it down. He started as a child, with a guest part in *Top Boy* (2013), and spent the following years in the kind of television that gets you noticed by casting directors and nobody else: *Liar* (2017), *Kiri* (2018), *Domina* (2021), where he played Marcellus. *Hope Gap* (2019) was his first feature. The turn came with *True Detective: Night Country* (2024), where Issa López gave him Officer Peter Prior, a main role, and scenes opposite Jodie Foster and John Hawkes. Most critics thought he held his own, and the settled view since has been of an actor good at earnest, conflicted young men caught between the people giving the orders. We have not written about that season on its own, so we will leave the praise to others. *Warfare* (2025) is the best thing we have seen him in and the one that tells us least about him, which is how Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza wanted it. Bennett is John, one of the platoon alongside Cosmo Jarvis, Joseph Quinn and Kit Connor. Nobody has a photograph of a girlfriend or a story about home; we know these men by their jobs and their fear. We spent the second half of that film watching the men at the edge of the frame, Bennett among them, and found them harder to bear than the men at the centre, because with no story to hold on to there was nothing to read on their faces except how frightened they were. An ensemble like that lives or dies on whether the men at the back look as if they belong there, and he does. The question now is what else he can do. In *A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms* (2026) he plays Prince Aerion Targaryen, a vain and cruel young man under a peroxide wig, and it is by his own account a departure: "I've always been a really lovely boy." We have not reviewed it and will not pretend to a view. But an actor who has built a career on being the decent one, and who has had the sense to notice, is usually more interesting once he stops. Lovely boys get cast for a decade. We are more curious about the wig. ## Biography Finn Bennett (born 27 December 1999) is an Irish-British actor. He grew up in Hackney, London, and began acting as a child, attending the Islington branch of Stagecoach from the age of 11. He is known for his role as Peter Prior in the HBO series *True Detective: Night Country* (2024). His film credits include *Hope Gap* (2019), *Warfare* (2025) and *Backrooms* (2026). On television he has also appeared in *Black Doves* (2024), *A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms* (2026) and *Prisoner* (2026). Bennett received the Trophée Chopard at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and was named a Screen International Star of Tomorrow. He shared a British Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Performance for *Warfare*. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, screendaily.com.* ## On Fi1m (6) - *A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms* (2026), Fi1m 73, as Prince Aerion 'Brightflame' Targaryen — [page](https://film.one/tv/a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms.md) - *Backrooms* (2026), Fi1m 64, as Bobby — [page](https://film.one/film/backrooms.md) - *Warfare* (2025), Fi1m 76, as John — [page](https://film.one/film/warfare.md) - *Kiri* (2018), Fi1m 78, as Si Warner — [page](https://film.one/tv/kiri.md) - *True Detective* (2014), Fi1m 80, as Peter Prior — [page](https://film.one/tv/true-detective.md) - *Top Boy* (2011), Fi1m 81, as Noah — [page](https://film.one/tv/top-boy.md) ## Complete filmography (21) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Backrooms* (2026), as Bobby — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/backrooms.md) - *Prisoner* (2026), series, as Olly Hatton - *A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms* (2026), series, as Prince Aerion 'Brightflame' Targaryen — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/tv/a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms.md) - *Eye for an Eye* (2025), as Shawn - *Warfare* (2025), as John — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/warfare.md) - *Black Doves* (2024), series, as Cole Atwood - *The Mouse* (2022), as Jakub - *A Banquet* (2022), as Sean - *Domina* (2021), series, as Marcellus - *The Nevers* (2021), series, as Pink Shirt - *Surge* (2020), as Teenager at Crash - *Hope Gap* (2019), as Robbie - *Sick of It* (2018), series, as Dylan - *Kiri* (2018), series, as Si Warner — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/kiri.md) - *Liar* (2017), series, as Ewen - *Cider with Rosie* (2015), as Older Jack - *True Detective* (2014), series, as Peter Prior — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/true-detective.md) - *Top Boy* (2011), series, as Noah — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/top-boy.md) - *Foyle's War* (2002), series, as Young James Devereaux — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/foyles-war.md) - *Loser*, as Benji Lambert · Executive Producer - *The Backrooms Part II*, as Bobby ## Gallery - ![Finn Bennett](https://film.one/media/person/6678/gallery-f199226bdf62.jpg) Finn Bennett — HBO Max, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/True_Detective_Night_Country_Officer_Peter_Prior_ice_rink_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Finn Bennett](https://film.one/media/person/6678/gallery-09fff52ba6b1.jpg) Finn Bennett — Image via TMDB - ![Finn Bennett](https://film.one/media/person/6678/gallery-4e0a8ae535ac.jpg) Finn Bennett — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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