Ben Starr is an English actor. After a string of minor roles, mainly on television, he had his breakthrough as a
voice actor after starring as
Clive Rosfield in ''
Final Fantasy XVI'', for which he received a
Golden Joystick Award for Best Lead Performer, and has subsequently gone on to do voice work in multiple other video games.
Biography
Starr was born in
Bristol
Bristol () is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region. Built around the River Avon, Bristol, River Avon, it is bordered by t ...
. He attended
Queen Elizabeth's Hospital School and was Captain of School 2005/6. While at school he was a member of Great Western Youth Theatre, Bristol Old Vic Youth Theatre and HTV Television Workshop. He studied History at the
Durham University and was President of Castle Theatre Company, a member of DULOG, as well as a founding member of DIM. On graduating from Durham he completed a 2 year postgraduate acting course at the
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
Career
His first role was in ''
Father Brown'' in 2013, followed by ''
Doctors'' in 2013, and ''
The Musketeers'' in 2015. He played Captain James Hawdon in the BBC series ''
Dickensian''. In 2016, he had roles in ''
Casualty'' as Nathan Mason and he starred in the role of
Donatello
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi ( – 13 December 1466), known mononymously as Donatello (; ), was an Italian Renaissance sculpture, Italian sculptor of the Renaissance period. Born in Republic of Florence, Florence, he studied classical sc ...
in ''
Medici: Masters of Florence''. In 2022, he appeared as Friar Tuck in “Robin Hood, on the run” at the Solihull Fringe Festival. In 2017 he landed a recurring role as the Apothecary, Dr Christopher Priestley, in the
Sky1 series ''
Jamestown''.
Starr voiced the main character
Clive Rosfield in the role-playing video game ''
Final Fantasy XVI'', for which his performance was widely acclaimed and enriched his stardom in the video game industry. He also hosted the
Golden Joystick Awards in 2024, after having won the award for Best Lead Performer the previous year. He reprised his role as a
DLC character in the first season pass for the fighting game ''
Tekken 8
is a 2024 fighting game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Arika and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is the eighth main installment (and tenth overall entry) in the ''Tekken'' series and the first one to debut on home systems ins ...
''.
Starr would also go on to star as ''Jimbo'' when advertising the 2024 indie game ''
Balatro''. During the
21st British Academy Games Awards, he would reprise this role to accept the
Debut Game Award on ''Balatro'' creator LocalThunk's behalf.
Filmography
Film
Television
Theatre
Video games
Web series
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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1988 births
Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Alumni of University College, Durham
English male film actors
English male television actors
English male video game actors
English male voice actors
Golden Joystick Award winners
Living people
Male actors from Bristol
21st-century English male actors