Shaun Benson

Acting

Shaun Benson

Born

1976-01-16 (50)

Place of birth

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Known for

Acting

Credits

62 titles

Shaun Benson was born on January 16, 1976 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and director, known for The Boys (2019), ARQ (2016) and General Hospital (1963).

Known for

The Boys poster
8.4

A group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys” set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.

The Boys

2019

Cold Case poster
7.7

The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.

Cold Case

2003

Hudson & Rex poster
8.4

Detective Charlie Hudson teams up with what he calls his "highly trained law enforcement animal" German Shepherd dog named Rex who he prefers to team up with because he doesn't talk his ear off. Based on the Austrian–Italian series, Kommissar Rex.

Hudson & Rex

2019

Haven poster
7.5

FBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve a murder and soon discovers the town's many secrets—which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.

Haven

2010

The Unit poster
7.4

A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets.

The Unit

2006

The Listener poster
6.9

Toby Logan is a highly skilled paramedic with a secret – he can read minds. Toby never really knew his parents and grew up in foster care, this coupled with his secret, which he shares with no one, has made him a bit of a loner. Until now, Toby has kept his ability hidden, exploring its possibilities only with his long time mentor and confidante Dr. Ray Mercer.

The Listener

2009

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

Fatman poster
5.6

A rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus is fighting to save his declining business. Meanwhile, Billy, a neglected and precocious 12 year old, hires a hit man to kill Santa after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking.

Fatman

2020

Slash/Back poster
6.4

In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.

Slash/Back

2022

The Memory Keeper poster
7.0

In a dystopian future where all of humanity's memories have become government-regulated transactional products, mankind's crown-jewel memory is stolen - the answer to where we come from.

The Memory Keeper

2025

Pink Light poster
NR

Inspired by his real life, Harrison Browne’s self-assured directorial debut follows an ex-pro hockey player who time travels back to his pre-transitioned self, when he was waiting for life to begin — only to realize that he has always been the person he was waiting to become.

Pink Light

2025

A House on Fire poster
5.7

A House on Fire follows brilliant doctor and mother Deborah Green (Stephanie March) who had the epitome of a picture-perfect life with two children, an adoring husband (Shaun Benson) and a beautiful house in an opulent neighborhood. But behind the curtain is a rocky marriage that includes Deb’s difficult bedside manner, her inability to get along with other doctors and an abuse of pills and alcohol, major envy of her husband’s successful medical career and his easy social manner, that takes a terrible turn and leaves her family and marriage in ruin.

A House on Fire

2021

Good Wife's Guide to Murder poster
4.8

When an expert in spousal murder is accused of killing her husband, she must use her investigation skills to prove her innocence.

Good Wife's Guide to Murder

2023

Trader poster
6.1

When a manipulative sociopath discovers her passion for stock market trading, she sets out to conquer the financial world, all from the confines of her basement apartment.

Trader

2022

Loathe Thy Neighbor poster
10.0

When a neurotic city transplant inherits his late father's rural farm, he must survive his unhinged neighbor's psychological warfare while discovering that sometimes your worst enemy might just save your life.

Loathe Thy Neighbor

2025

Twin Lies poster
4.3

When a young barista takes her twin sister’s place for an escorting gig, all hell breaks loose when their mysterious client turns dangerous.

Twin Lies

2024

Home Free poster
NR

In 1997, a group of college misfits invite an unhoused professor to crash on their porch.

Home Free

2023

2010s · 20 titles

Code 8 poster
6.3

In Lincoln City, some inhabitants have extraordinary abilities. Most live below the poverty line, under the close surveillance of a heavily militarized police force. Connor, a construction worker with powers, involves with a criminal gang to help his ailing mother. (Based on the short film “Code 8,” 2016.)

Code 8

2019

I Still See You poster
6.4

Ten years after an apocalyptic event left the world haunted by ghosts, Veronica 'Ronnie' Calder receives a threatening message from beyond the grave. Joining forces with a mysterious classmate, Kirk, Ronnie descends into a shadow world that blurs the bounds of the living and the dead—and begins a desperate race against time to stop a cunning killer.

I Still See You

2018

Populaire poster
6.6

An insurance agent and his new secretary become locked in the grip of romance and competition as they train together for a speed-typing contest.

Populaire

2012

ARQ poster
6.1

Two old friends living in a dystopic future become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that may have something to do with an ongoing battle between an omnipotent corporation and a ragtag band of rebels.

ARQ

2016

22 Chaser poster
6.9

One of the city's last decent tow truck drivers risks everything on a desperate quest to become king of the road and provide for his struggling family.

22 Chaser

2018

Kept Woman poster
6.5

Jessica and her fiancé Evan have just moved from the city into their dream home on a quiet suburban street. Soon after, Jessica catches her seemingly friendly new neighbor, Simon, in a strange lie and can't let her suspicions rest. The danger escalates when Simon lures her inside his home and imprisons Jessica in his secret bunker, meticulously decorated in the idealized style of the 1950s.

Kept Woman

2015

Edge of Winter poster
5.8

When two brothers are stranded by a brutal winter storm with an unpredictable father they barely know, the boys begin to suspect their supposed protector may be their biggest threat.

Edge of Winter

2016

Flight of the Butterflies poster
6.2

It takes two or three generations for the monarch butterfly to reach the Canadian breeding grounds, but it is one "supergeneration" that makes the 2,000 mile return trip back south into central Mexico. The documentary film covers Dr Fred Urquhart's interest in monarch butterflies, with perspectives of Urquhart as a child wondering where the butterflies went, his years of research and study into their life and migration, to his time decades-later as a senior scientist looking back at his investigations and discoveries about the insect's life pattern.

Flight of the Butterflies

2012

Trench 11 poster
5.3

In the final days of WWI a shell-shocked soldier must lead a mission deep beneath the trenches to stop a German plot that could turn the tide of the war.

Trench 11

2017

Prescription for Danger poster
5.6

Ivy and Skyler have started a popular web site and Ivy's health suffers from the stress. Her doctor has her scanned: she only has short time to live and she starts on expensive, illegal, experimental drugs. But is the doctor lying?

Prescription for Danger

2018

Never Saw It Coming poster
5.5

Keisha Ceylon is a psychic. At least, that’s what she passes herself off as. Her real powers have more to do with separating troubled families from their money than actually seeing into the netherworld. When Keisha targets the family of the missing Ellie Garfield she becomes entangled in the dark secrets of Ellie’s husband Wendell Garfield and his daughter Melissa.

Never Saw It Coming

2018

Boys vs. Girls poster
5.0

When camps around the country were shutting down every year and Camp Kitchikewana made the economically necessary move to turn co-ed, the result was a very real clash of the sexes.

Boys vs. Girls

2019

(rough cut) poster
NR

A director pressures an actress into full nudity on the morning of her first sex scene.

(rough cut)

2016

Shadow Island Mysteries: Wedding for One poster
4.4

TV Movie directed by Gary Yates. Claire is hosting her best friend's wedding. Guests arrive, old family conflicts resurface and the night before the wedding, the Groom goes missing. Only Claire knows of Danny's disappearance and she is determined to find him and bring him back before her best friend finds out.

Shadow Island Mysteries: Wedding for One

2010

The Beautiful Risk poster
3.3

William, a respected artist who lost everything after his divorce, arrives in Montreal on a job prospect. When the job falls through he then is saved and forms an erotic friendship and exposes his soul with a young woman named Paulette.

The Beautiful Risk

2014

Queen of the Morning Calm poster
4.6

Follows 29-year-old immigrant sex worker Debra, and her self-aware 10-year-old daughter Mona, as they embark on a journey of emancipation. Debra attempts to escape cycles of abuse and poverty while learning to become a more nurturing mother and discovering her own self-worth.

Queen of the Morning Calm

2019

Home Sweet Home poster
5.3

A young married couple comes home from a date night to discover that they are imprisoned in their own house with a killer inside.

Home Sweet Home

2013

Interlude: City of a Dead Woman poster
3.0

A former opera singer, a priest and a bullfighter meet on the island of Patmos, seeking redemption; their encounter will affect each other’s lives irrevocably.

Interlude: City of a Dead Woman

2017

Unearthing poster
2.0

Healy James and Fisher Hart share a deep secret, but they don't know what it is. While Healy is tormented by compulsions he doesn't understand, Fisher studies the science of love, and avoids Healy, who triggers feelings she can't explain. When Healy suspects the answers to their mystery are buried on a suspected killer's property, his curiosity turns reckless, and Fisher must choose between a life in hiding and a frightening truth.

Unearthing

2016

Barn Wedding poster
NR

When a young couple have to reschedule their picturesque summer wedding to the rural and remote dead of winter, they are forced to face how well they truly know each other and the people closest to them.

Barn Wedding

2015

2000s · 5 titles

Series credits

The Boys poster
8.4

A group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys” set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.

The Boys

2019

Cold Case poster
7.7

The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.

Cold Case

2003

Hudson & Rex poster
8.4

Detective Charlie Hudson teams up with what he calls his "highly trained law enforcement animal" German Shepherd dog named Rex who he prefers to team up with because he doesn't talk his ear off. Based on the Austrian–Italian series, Kommissar Rex.

Hudson & Rex

2019

Haven poster
7.5

FBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve a murder and soon discovers the town's many secrets—which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.

Haven

2010

The Unit poster
7.4

A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets.

The Unit

2006

The Listener poster
6.9

Toby Logan is a highly skilled paramedic with a secret – he can read minds. Toby never really knew his parents and grew up in foster care, this coupled with his secret, which he shares with no one, has made him a bit of a loner. Until now, Toby has kept his ability hidden, exploring its possibilities only with his long time mentor and confidante Dr. Ray Mercer.

The Listener

2009

The Girlfriend Experience poster
7.0

Explore the relationships between exclusive escorts and their clients, for whom they provide far more than just sex. Known as GFEs, they are women who provide “The Girlfriend Experience”—emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price.

The Girlfriend Experience

2016

Mayans M.C. poster
8.0

Set in the aftermath of Jax Teller’s death, Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes is fresh out of prison and a prospect in the Mayans M.C. charter on the Cali/Mexi border. Now, EZ must carve out his new identity in a town where he was once the golden boy with the American Dream in his grasp.

Mayans M.C.

2018

Killjoys poster
6.9

An action-packed adventure series following a fun-loving, hard living trio of interplanetary bounty hunters (a.k.a. Killjoys) sworn to remain impartial as they chase deadly warrants around the Quad, a system of planets on the brink of revolution.

Killjoys

2015

Republic of Doyle poster
7.0

Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Doyles don't always land on the right side of the law.

Republic of Doyle

2010

Republic of Doyle poster
7.0

Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Doyles don't always land on the right side of the law.

Republic of Doyle

2010

Frankie Drake Mysteries poster
6.3

Toronto’s only female private detective in the 1920s takes on the cases the police don’t want or can’t handle. From airplanes and booze running to American G-men, Communists and union busters, Frankie’s fearless sense of adventure gets her into all kinds of trouble, but she always manages to find her way out.

Frankie Drake Mysteries

2017

Channel Zero poster
7.0

A horror anthology series inspired by “Creepypasta” online tales.

Channel Zero

2016

Billy the Kid poster
7.7

An epic romantic adventure series based on the life of famous American outlaw Billy the Kid — from his humble Irish roots, to his early days as a cowboy and gunslinger in the American frontier, to his pivotal role in the Lincoln County War and beyond.

Billy the Kid

2022

The Nature of Things poster
7.2

The Nature of Things is a Canadian television series of documentary programs. It debuted on CBC Television on November 6, 1960. Many of the programs document nature and the effect that humans have on it. The program was one of the first to explore environmental issues, such as clear-cut logging. The series is named after an epic poem by Roman philosopher Lucretius: "Dē Rērum Nātūrā" — On the Nature of Things.

The Nature of Things

1960

Against the Wall poster
6.5

This Chicago-set family drama follows a policewoman who causes a rift with her three cop brothers when she decides to join the department's Internal Affairs division.

Against the Wall

2011

Hell Motel poster
5.1

A group of ten true crime obsessives are invited to the opening weekend of the newly renovated Cold River Motel, the site of a 30-year-old unsolved satanic mass murder. History repeats itself when the guests get stranded and start getting knocked off one by one during a murder spree that grows exponentially more gruesome than the original with each kill.

Hell Motel

2025

Played poster
6.8

The Covert Investigations Unit (CIU) risks going undercover to infiltrate and bring down criminal organizations. In this new style of short-term, high-intensity undercover work, each covert “play” is crafted quickly and executed at an even faster pace. Placed into various worlds of crime without a safety net, the cops are in constant danger, as they repeatedly go off the grid. Wearing wires, coaxing confessions, and setting up stings, the cops of the CIU must think quickly, talk smoothly, and rely on pure instinct. They slip in and out of characters so often that, sometimes, they lose track of who they really are.

Played

2013

Tiny Pretty Things poster
7.3

When an attack brings down the star student at an elite ballet school, her replacement enters a world of lies, betrayal -- and cutthroat competition.

Tiny Pretty Things

2020

Slasher: Ripper poster
7.0

There's a killer stalking the mean streets, but instead of targeting the poor and downtrodden like Jack the Ripper, The Widow is meting out justice against the rich and powerful.

Slasher: Ripper

2023

Lucky 7 poster
4.8

What would you do if you won the lottery? How would it change your life? Follow a group of seven gas station employees in Queens, New York, who have been chipping into a lottery pool for years, never thinking they'd actually win. They need to be careful what they wish for, because while the money could solve problems for each of them, it will forever change the close-knit bonds these friends have formed.

Lucky 7

2013

Just Cause poster
9.0

Just Cause is an award-winning Canadian legal drama television series produced by Mind's Eye Entertainment. Filming was done in Vancouver, British Columbia but the series is set in San Francisco, California.

Just Cause

2002

Tom Holland's Twisted Tales poster
NR

A collection of nine chilling tales featuring dark magic, werewolves, vampires, and other supernatural elements, with stories about a new drug with beastly consequences, a murderous husband stalked by his cell phone, and a jilted lover's satanic revenge.

Tom Holland's Twisted Tales

2013

No artwork available
7.5

The Associates is a Canadian television drama series that aired on CTV in 2001 and 2002. The show features five junior associate lawyers at a Toronto law firm, played by Demore Barnes, Shaun Benson, Tamara Hickey, Gabriel Hogan and Jennie Raymond. R.H. Thomson also stars as the firm's senior partner. The show was successful in its first two years of ratings, but due to tax cutbacks from the government, the show could not continue into a third season.

The Associates

2001

Defiance: The Lost Ones poster
5.3

5 mini-episodes of what's happening between season 1 and 2 of Defiance.

Defiance: The Lost Ones

2014

Behind the camera