Background and career
Ben Hardy (born Ben Jones; 2 January 1991) is an English actor. A graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, he began his professional career on stage before moving into television and film. He made his film debut as Archangel in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and portrayed Queen drummer Roger Taylor in the biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) for which the cast received an Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. His other film roles include Only the Brave (2017), 6 Underground (2019), The Voyeurs (2021), Love At First Sight (2023) and The Conjuring: Last Rites. (2025) On television, Hardy has appeared in the miniseries The Woman in White (2018) and The Girl Before (2021). Earlier in his career, he played Peter Beale in the BBC soap opera EastEnders (2013–2015).
Hardy was born 2 January 1991 in Bournemouth, Dorset, and grew up in Sherborne. He attended Sherborne Abbey Primary School and the Gryphon School. As a student at Gryphon, Hardy starred as Sergeant Francis Troy in a school film adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd.
In 2012, Hardy starred as Arthur Wellesley in the David Hare play The Judas Kiss, also featuring Rupert Everett. The production initially had a limited run at the Hampstead Theatre from September to October 2012 followed by a short tour to Bath, Richmond, Brighton and Cambridge before, after rave reviews, transferring to the West End's Duke of York's Theatre in January 2013. On 19 April 2013, it was announced that Hardy would play Peter Beale in the long-running BBC soap opera EastEnders. He made his first appearance on 7 June 2013. On 19 November 2014, it was announced that Hardy would leave the series. He made his final appearance on 24 February 2015.
Hardy made his film debut in Bryan Singer's superhero film X-Men: Apocalypse, released on 27 May 2016, co-starring as the winged mutant Archangel. He subsequently portrayed John William Polidori in Haifaa Al-Mansour's period romance film Mary Shelley and Granite Mountain Hotshots firefighter Wade Parker, who lost his life in the 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, in Joseph Kosinski's action-drama Only the Brave. Both films were released in 2017. In 2018, he played the lead role of Walter Hartright in the BBC adaptation of the Wilkie Collins novel The Woman in White. That year, he also portrayed Queen drummer Roger Taylor in the biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody. Hardy and the film's ensemble were nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards. Hardy next appeared in the Netflix action thriller film 6 Underground, directed by Michael Bay. The film was released on 13 December 2019. In 2020, he played Frank in the movie Pixie, alongside Olivia Cooke and Daryl McCormack, among others and directed by Barnaby Thompson. In 2021, he starred opposite Sydney Sweeney in the Amazon Prime Video Thriller The Voyeurs and appeared in the HBO Max and BBC psychological thriller miniseries The Girl Before. In 2023, he starred in the romantic comedy Love at First Sight, an adaptation of Jennifer E Smith's novel The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. The film topped Netflix's global English language film chart during each of its first two weeks of release. That year, Hardy starred in the drama Unicorns, directed by Sally El Hosaini and James Krishna Floyd. Hardy portrayed Luke, a single father who begins a relationship with a British Indian drag performer. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Hardy and co-star Jason Patel were nominated for Best Joint Lead Performance at the British Independent Film Awards. In 2025, Hardy portrayed Tony Spera in Michael Chaves' supernatural horror film The Conjuring: Last Rites, the ninth installment in The Conjuring Universe.
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Net-worth figure: Celebrity Net Worth (October 2026), in USD. Biography and career facts: the person's Wikipedia article and linked reporting. Snapshot date for all StarWorth figures: 28 October 2026.
