Ben Price
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| Born | 1 January 1972 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK |
Ben Price (born 1 January 1972) is a British actor, best known for playing the third incarnation of Nick Tilsley in the ITV soap opera, Coronation Street. He had previously played the role of Conrad Gates in the British television series' Footballers' Wives.
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[edit] Early life
Price grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne where he attended Gosforth East Middle School and Gosforth High School before taking acting classes at The Live Theatre.[1] He graduated from The Central School of Speech and Drama in 1996, in the same class as Sarah Manners and Rebecca Lenkiewicz.
[edit] Career
After starring in Wire in the Blood, he found fame when he starred as Conrad Gates, the captain of Earl's Park football team, in the British television series Footballers' Wives.[2] Price said he loved the role, driving around in expensive cars, living in mansions and working with a good crew, but he was not so keen on the large number of occasions that his posterior was shown.[citation needed] Nonetheless, the prolific nudity and onscreen sexual exploits that his character undertook greatly increased Ben's public profile, and he garnered in particular a large gay fanbase through the role. His character was later killed off in the fourth season finale.[3] After leaving the series he did some theatre work.
He co-stars in the horror film Blood Trails, which won the audience award for best feature at the Dead by Dawn International Horror Film Festival 2006 in Edinburgh.
He starred in Casualty as Corporate Director Nathan Spencer[4] between 2005 and 2007, and was recently voted one of the ten actors most likely to succeed in Hollywood by "Stage and Screen" magazine. Price appeared on the July 2006 cover of Out magazine.
In 2009 he appeared in the third season of showtimes hit show The Tudors, playing the martyr John Lambert.[5]
Price recently joined Coronation Street as Nick Tilsley. He began filming on Monday 19 October 2009 and was seen on screen for the first time on 21 December 2009.[6]
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Films
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Flyfishing | James | |
| 2006 | Blood Trails | Chris |
[edit] Television
| Year | Show | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Casualty | Jimmy Sellars | Episode: "Flesh and Blood" |
| 1997 | Soldier Soldier | Fus Chris Howden | Episode: "The Road to Damascus" |
| Underworld | Runner | Episode #1.4 | |
| 1998 | Supply & Demand | Jonathon | |
| Heartbeat | John Fraser | Episode: "Where There's a Will" | |
| 1999 | Peak Practice | Tom Wise | Episode: "Fighting Chance" |
| Hope & Glory | Mr. Jakes | Episodes #1.1 and #1.2 | |
| Bugs | Wymark | Episodes: "Money Spiders" and "The Enemy Within" | |
| 2000 | Badger | Dion | Episodes: "The Price of a Daughter" and "Cock o' the Walk" |
| 2001 | Table 12 | David | Episode: "Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner" |
| 2002 | Wire in the Blood | Michael Jordan | Episode: "The Mermaids Singing" |
| 2004–2005 | Footballers' Wives | Conrad Gates | Series regular |
| 2005 | The Bill | Greg Webster | Episode #343 |
| 2005–2007 | Casualty | Nathan Spencer | Series regular |
| 2009 | The Tudors | John Lambert | Episodes: "The Death of a Queen" and "Search for a New Queen" |
| 2009–present | Coronation Street | Nick Tilsley | Series regular |
[edit] References
- ^ "Ben Price plays Nathan Spencer". holby.tv. http://www.holby.tv/db/index.php?id=39,1591,0,0,1,0. Retrieved 12 September 2009.
- ^ I scored with Zoe to join Mile High Club, Sunday Mirror, 8 February 2004 (Archived at FindArticles.com)
- ^ "Footballers Wives' Episode 4.9". Shed Productions. http://www.footballerswives.tv/episodes/s4ep9.html. Retrieved 12 September 2009.
- ^ "Ben Price plays Nathan Spencer". holby.tv. http://www.holby.tv/db/index.php?id=39,1591,0,0,1,0. Retrieved 12 September 2009.
- ^ "United Artists: Ben Price". United Agents. http://unitedagents.co.uk/film/ben-price/. Retrieved 12 September 2009.
- ^ Daniel Kilkelly (16 October 2009). "Ben Price to play Corrie's Nick Tilsley". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s3/coronationstreet/news/a182284/ben-price-to-play-corries-nick-tilsley.html. Retrieved 10 December 2009.
[edit] External links
- Ben Price at the Internet Movie Database
