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Home/People/Ben Smith
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Born
Dec 27, 1989
Age 36
Place of Birth
Edgware, London, England, UK
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male

Career Highlights

6
Movies
15
TV Shows
Also Known As
Benjamin Smith
IMDb Profile

Ben Smith

Acting

Biography
Benjamin Smith is an English actor. Smith's most known famous role is Damien Trotter in Only Fools and Horses. Among Smith's other early roles are Holby City, Goodnight Mister Tom and Second Sight. He played Luke in the 2006 Doctor Who episode "School Reunion" and Joey Frazier in BBC's Hustle. He played Jack in the BBC's Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007). In 2008, he played Tegs on EastEnders and Donny on Skins. He was also in the stage production of Dennis Kelly's DNA. Smith also appeared in Teachers, The Bill and Help! I'm a Teenage Outlaw. He had a recurring guest role in the first series of the E4 series Misfits (2009). That year he also appeared in the film Nowhere Boy. In 2010 he was the main character in episode 2 of the Jimmy McGovern-penned BBC drama serial Accused, where he played Frankie, a young soldier who seeks revenge on an army corporal after his friend commits suicide due to the corporal's actions. In the following few years, Smith had roles in Scott & Bailey, The Honourable Woman and Common, also written by Jimmy McGovern. In 2015 he appeared in the Channel 4 police comedy-drama No Offence. In 2019 he appeared as Lennox, a British journalist sympathetic to Irish republicanism, in Netflix/RTÉ's Irish war of Independence drama Resistance.
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Come Out of the Woods

as Sam
2017
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Pan

as Orphan
2015
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Common

as Patrick O'Shea
2014
Cherries poster

Cherries

as Robin
2007
Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind poster

Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind

as Sam Tanner
2001
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Daisy-Head Mayzie

as Butch (voice)
1995