Ben Addis

Acting

Ben Addis

Place of birth

Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

17 titles

Ben Addis is a Welsh actor known for his work in theatre and television. Addis was born in Blaenavon. He was part of Gwent Young People's Theatre (GYPT) in Abergavenny and The National Youth Theatre of Wales. He trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Theatre credits include: Rock and Roll (Duke of York's Theatre), King Lear (RSC), Never So Good (National Theatre),[1] Antigone and Widower's Houses (Manchester Royal Exchange),[2] Cinderella (Warwick Arts Centre / Lyric Hammersmith)[3] and Eurydice (ATC/Plymouth Drum/Young Vic). Film and TV credits include: Lewis (ITV) and Martin Scorsese's Hugo. In February 2020, Addis played the role of Dr. Parker in Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks. In Augus…

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 6 titles

Hugo poster
7.2

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.

Hugo

2011

The Decoy Bride poster
6.0

A local woman is hired to draw paparazzi away from a Hollywood actress who has come to Scotland to get married.

The Decoy Bride

2011

Doctor Who: The Snowmen poster
7.7

The Doctor has retired to 1892 London. Despite the protests of his allies, he is determined to keep out of mankind's affairs. However, a governess named Clara has stumbled upon a plot which only the Doctor can unravel, involving the death of her predecessor in ice and the sinister Dr. Simeon, who controls monsters made of sentient snow. And there is another mystery afoot: Clara is the spitting image of Oswin Oswald, whom the Doctor saw die in the Dalek asylum...

Doctor Who: The Snowmen

2012

The Eichmann Show poster
6.7

The behind-the-scenes true life story of a groundbreaking producer, Milton Fruchtman, and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz who, overcoming enormous obstacles, set out to capture the testimony of one of the war's most notorious Nazis, Adolf Eichmann, who is accused of executing the 'final solution' and organising the murder of 6 million Jews. This is the extraordinary story of how the trial came to be televised and the team that made it happen.

The Eichmann Show

2015

The Mysterious Mr Webster poster
6.0

Professor James Shapiro goes in search of the mysterious man behind The Duchess of Malfi, the son of a coachmaker who ended up rivalling Shakespeare.

The Mysterious Mr Webster

2014

Murder on the Victorian Railway poster
7.0

Part documentary, part recreation, this movie is an exploration of Britain's first railway murder. Based on the book by Kate Colquhoun.

Murder on the Victorian Railway

2013

Series credits

Vera poster
7.4

A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.

Vera

2011

Has Fallen poster
7.0

A protection officer and an MI6 operative team up after a terrorist attack. They suspect a mole as they race to thwart a larger conspiracy threatening Paris.

Has Fallen

2024

Lewis poster
7.6

Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.

Lewis

2007

The Girl Before poster
6.2

A traumatized woman falls in love with an extraordinary minimalist house, which remains under the spell of the architect who originally designed it, but everything may not be as it seems.

The Girl Before

2021

Bodies poster
7.1

One victim, found dead on a London street. Four detectives, in four different time periods, must solve the mystery to protect Britain's future.

Bodies

2023

Code of Silence poster
6.7

A deaf catering worker who is struggling to make ends meet is called upon by a police detective superintendent to lip-read the conversations of criminals.

Code of Silence

2025

Maryland poster
6.4

Becca and her sister, Rosaline, have forged ahead with family lives and careers, growing distant through time and circumstance. But when the body of an older woman is discovered at sunrise on Laxey Beach in the Isle of Man, it brings devastating news for the sisters.

Maryland

2023

Dark Matters: Twisted But True poster
7.4

Hosted by actor John Noble of Fringe and Lord of the Rings, the show takes the viewer inside the laboratory to profile strange science and expose some of history's most bizarre experiments. This show uses narration and reenactments to portray the stories in this show. A new season of episodes, under the title Dark Matters: Extra Twisted, premiered on January 23, 2013. The episodes revisit previous stories with "deeper insight and new information."

Dark Matters: Twisted But True

2011

Judge Rinder's Crown Court poster
NR

Crown Court, the iconic courtroom drama of the seventies and eighties is back on our screens after a thirty-year hiatus with a brand new case, presided over by Judge Rinder. Originally running for over 800 episodes, this classic series featured the good and the great of British acting talent from Colin Firth to Ben Kingsley, Bob Hoskins and Alison Steadman to name just a few. Now the court is ready to be sworn-in again, with a shocking new two-part murder trial inspired by a real-life arsenic poisoning.

Judge Rinder's Crown Court

2017