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Ben Starr (actor)
English actor (born 1988) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ben Starr is an English actor. After a string of minor roles, mainly on television, he had his breakthrough as a voice actor after voicing Clive Rosfield in the action role-playing game Final Fantasy XVI (2023). This role earned him the award for "Best Lead Performer" at the 2023 Golden Joystick Awards, a nomination for the "Best Performance" award at The Game Awards that year.
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Starr has subsequently gone on to voice many characters in video games, most notably Verso in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (2025), which earned him "Best Supporting Performer", at the 2025 Golden Joystick Awards and yet another nomination for the "Best Performance" award at The Game Awards 2025. The same year, he voiced Prometheus in another critically acclaimed title, Hades II.
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Biography
Starr was born in Bristol. He attended Queen Elizabeth's Hospital School and was captain of school 2005/6. While at school he was a member of Great Western Youth Theatre, Bristol Old Vic Youth Theatre and HTV Television Workshop. He studied history at Durham University and was president of Castle Theatre Company, a member of DULOG, as well as a founding member of DIM. On graduating from Durham he completed a two-year postgraduate acting course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
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Career
His first role was in Father Brown in 2013, followed by Doctors in 2013, and The Musketeers in 2015. He played Captain James Hawdon in the BBC series Dickensian.[2] In 2016, he had roles in Casualty as Nathan Mason and he starred in the role of Donatello in Medici: Masters of Florence. In 2017 he landed a recurring role as the Apothecary, Dr Christopher Priestley, in the Sky1 series Jamestown.[3]
Starr voiced the main character Clive Rosfield in the role-playing video game Final Fantasy XVI, for which his performance was widely acclaimed and enriched his stardom in the video game industry. He also hosted the Golden Joystick Awards in 2024, after having won the award for Best Lead Performer the previous year.[4] [5] He reprised his role as a DLC character in the first season pass for the fighting game Tekken 8.
Starr would also go on to star as Jimbo when advertising the 2024 indie game Balatro.[6] During the 21st British Academy Games Awards, he would reprise this role to accept the Debut Game Award on Balatro creator LocalThunk's behalf.[7] He voiced the character Verso in the 2025 video game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
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Filmography
Film
Television
Theatre
Video games
Web series
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Awards and nominations
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