Benjamin Foster is an American actor. Best known for his recent leading role at the movie “Hell or High Water”, nominated for Oscars 2017. Let’s see some amazing facts and trivia about it!
1.His full name is Benjamin A. “Ben” Foster.
2. He wa born October 29, 1980.
3. Ben Foster was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of restaurant owners Gillian Kirwan and Steven Foster
4. He has described his parents as “free-spirited, Vietnam-protesting hippies”.
5. He has a younger brother, Jon, who is also an actor.
6. When Foster was four years old, his family relocated to Fairfield, Iowa, after their Boston home was broken into by robbers while they were present.
7. Ben Foster was raised Jewish, and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.
8. His paternal grandparents were Celia (Segal) and Abraham Foster, who was a prominent judge and politician in Boston; their families emigrated from Russia.
9. Ben Foster practices Transcendental Meditation, and, while living in Fairfield, attended the Maharishi University of Management.
10. Ben Foster began a relationship with actress Robin Wright in early 2012.
11. They became engaged in early 2014, but called off their engagement on November 12, 2014 before reconciling again.
12. On August 29, 2015, they announced they were ending their second engagement.
13. On October 5, 2016, Foster announced his engagement to actress Laura Prepon.
14. In January 2017, it was announced that the couple is expecting their first baby.
15. In 1996 and 1997, he appeared in the television series Flash Forward. Over the next three years, Foster obtained small roles in two made-for-TV movies as well as two episodes of the TV series Freaks and Geeks.
16. In 2001, he acted in the film Get Over It. Foster also had a recurring role as Russell Corwin (22 episodes) in the HBO Original Series, Six Feet Under.
17. After appearing in the films 11:14 and The Punisher, Foster appeared in Hostage with Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak and Michelle Horn. In 2006, Foster appeared in X-Men: The Last Stand as the comic-book hero Angel / Warren Worthington III.
18. In the crime thriller Alpha Dog, he played the character Jake Mazursky and added glaucoma drops to his eyes to simulate the appearance of a drug addict in the film.
19. In 2007, he played cold-blooded killer and outlaw Charlie Prince in the Western film 3:10 to Yuma.
20. In February 2013, he was cast to replace Shia LaBeouf in the Broadway play Orphans as his first theater performance.
21. In May 2014 it was announced that he would star opposite Gillian Anderson and Vanessa Kirby in Benedict Andrews’ new production of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Young Vic in London.
22. That production closed on September 19, 2014. The same production transferred to New York in 2016, opening at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn.
23. Ben Foster played Lance Armstrong in the biopic The Program, and co-starred in the fantasy adventure Warcraft, released in June 2016.
24. Also in 2016, Foster appeared in Hell or High Water as the dangerous Tanner Howard, opposite Chris Pine and Jeff Bridges.
26. Ben Foster was acclaimed for his roles and has received numerous awards nominations.
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