Ben Chaplin (born Benedict John Greenwood; 31 July 1969) is a British actor.\n', '

Ben Chaplin was born Benedict John Greenwood on 31 July 1969 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, the son of Cynthia (née Chaplin), a teacher, and Peter Greenwood, a civil engineer. He has two sisters, Sarah and Rachel, and one brother, Justin. Chaplin became interested in acting as a teenager when he appeared in a school play. Chaplin attended the Princess Margaret Royal Free School and, at the age of 17, enrolled at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He pursued his early acting career between odd jobs, working various clerical jobs and as a statistician for the London Transport Authority. Chaplin eventually began appearing in BBC dramas and various British films. He took his stage name from his mother\'s maiden name.\n', '

In 1992, Chaplin appeared in his first major role, starring alongside James Purefoy and Jason Flemyng in "Bye Bye Baby" for Channel Four. James Ivory and Ismail Merchant cast him as a servant in The Remains of the Day, and as the socially inept Con Wainwright in Feast of July (1995). Chaplin received positive reviews as Tom Wingfield in Sam Mendes\' stage production of The Glass Menagerie (1995) in London, and played the lead in the first series of the British sitcom, Game On (BBC Two, 1995). In the United States, Chaplin was cast by director Michael Lehmann as a photographer caught between two women (Uma Thurman and Janeane Garofalo) in The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996), a retelling of "Cyrano de Bergerac".\n', '

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