Ben Browder is an American actor, writer, and director born on December 11, 1962, in Memphis, Tennessee, as Robert Benedict Browder.
After a successful college football career with the Furman University Paladins, Ben moved to London to study classical acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Ben's acting career started in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he was raised. He made TV commercials in the late 1960s and appeared in the children's movie Duncan's World (1977) playing Gates, one of Duncan's best friends.
While at drama school, Ben was highly influenced by Dame Judith Dench, who directed him in several Shakespeare productions. In 1987, he and his future wife, Francesca Buller, were cast in Dustin Hoffman's London West End production of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" (which went on to play on Broadway in New York).
Ben worked as a guest on various TV series, TV pilots, and movies before getting his first noted TV series role as Sam Brody in the 3rd season of Party of Five (1994).
In 1999, Ben was cast as the lead on the science fiction TV series Farscape (1999),which was filmed in Australia by a collaboration of The Jim Henson Company, Channel 9, Hallmark Company, and The Sci-fi Channel.
Ben played American astronaut John Crichton, unique among a crew of renegade aliens, in the dramatic and eccentric series Farscape, which ran for four seasons on the Sci-fi cable channel until 2002, when it was canceled.
After finding financing, "Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars" was filmed to complete the Farscape series. During his time as lead actor on Farscape, Ben wrote two scripts for the show: Season 3's "Green-Eyed Monster" and Season 4's "John Quixote."
Ben also starred as Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell in the 9th and 10th seasons of Sci-fi Channel's, "Stargate SG-1", after series star and producer Richard Dean Anderson left the show.
During his time as lead actor on the show, Ben was given credit for developing the story for Season 10's "Bad Guys."
In 2008, Stargate SG-1 filmed two made-for-TV movies starring the actors from the television show, including Ben playing Lt. Col. Cameron Mitchell.
Ben has been nominated for the genre industry's Saturn award five times. He took home the award in 2002 for Best Actor in a Television Series (Farscape) and again in 2005 for Best Actor on Television (Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars).
In 2014, Ben made his directorial debut with "Bad Kids of Crestview Academy," for which he also repeated his role as Max Rainwater, a rather dim janitor.
Ben recently played an extreme character named George Tildon in an independent art house western called "Outlaws and Angels" directed and written by JT Mollner, which debuted in theaters in January 2016.
Ben is married to actress Francesca Buller, whom he met in acting school in London. They have two children together.
