Benjamin Wainwright is an English actor.

Career

He played the lead role of Frederick Trenchard in

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period-drama '' Belgravia: The Next Chapter'' in 2024. His credits also include '' Gangs of London'', and ''

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'' series' '' World on Fire'' and '' The Split''. He has a voice role in '' The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim''. In September 2024, he started production in the title role of an adaptation of ''

Maigret Jules Maigret (), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a '' commissaire'' ("commissioner") of the Paris ''Brigade Criminelle'' ('' Direction Régionale de la Police Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres''), created ...

'' for ''

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'', based on

Georges Simenon Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (; 12/13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer who created the fictional detective Jules Maigret. One of the most prolific and successful authors of the 20th century, he published around 400 ...

’s novels about

Jules Maigret Jules Maigret (), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a '' commissaire'' ("commissioner") of the Paris ''Brigade Criminelle'' ('' Direction Régionale de la Police Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres''), created ...

, a chief inspector for the Paris police.

Partial filmography

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wainwright (actor), Benjamin Date of birth unknown Living people 21st-century English male actors Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Alumni of the University of Leeds Place of birth unknown British film actors British television actors