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Benedick Bates
BornNovember 1970
Parent(s)Alan Bates
Victoria Ward

Benedick Bates (born 1970) is a British actor.

He is the son of actor Alan Bates and actress Victoria Ward and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

He has performed numerous times with the Glasgow Citizens Company, at the Chichester Festival Theatre and Edinburgh Festival, and in London's West End, in such productions as Don Carlos, Romeo and Juliet, The Return of A. J. Raffles, The Rose Tattoo, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Semi-Monde.

Bates made his Broadway debut opposite his father in Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool in 2002.[1][2]

Bates' twin brother Tristan, also an actor, died unexpectedly in 1990 at the age of 19.

References

  1. ^ "Suffering Fools - Nymag". New York Magazine. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  2. ^ Hernandez, Ernio (18 September 2003). "Benedick Bates, Son of Original Butley, Joins Lane in Boston Staging, Oct. 24-Nov. 30". Playbill. Retrieved 23 April 2020.