Benjamin Stender
Eye Color: Blue/greenHeight: 1,88
Education:BA in performing arts – European Academy of Dramatic Arts
Shakespeare & Elizabethan stage combat workshop
Theatrical biomechanics and fencing workshop
Performers House – Institute of Performing Arts
Sankt Annae Gymnasium – music and arts high school
Languages:Mother Tongue: DanishFluent in: Italian, English
Biography
Benjamin Stender is a Danish born actor graduated from The European Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome, Italy in 2012.
Benjamin has spent a big time of his adolescent life in Los Angeles, California where he went to state school. He then returned to Denmark where he was accepted into the music high school Sank Annae Gymnasium. After finishing, he moved to Italy to get his training as an actor, graduating with a BA in performing arts.
He started off with his first professional job taking on the role of Christian de Neuvillette, in one of Italy’s biggest productions of Cyrano de Bergerac, that toured the country for 2 years. Soon after he was given his first role alongside Oscar winning Murray Abraham in “The Unseen World”, that led to numerous parts for Italian TV productions and international films and series.
While working in front of the camera, he also kept himself busy on the stage, travelling between Rome and Copenhagen. In 2014 he was awarded the Reumert for up-coming talent, for his portrayal of the young Arthur Kipps in ”The Woman in Black” and has since 2016 been a permanent member of the Hamlet production at Kronborg Castle in Elsinore every summer, as Hamlet.
The latest of his works include the American produced film ”Gore” staring Kevin Spacey, and the international series ”The Name of The Rose”, based on Umberto Eco’s bestseller from 1980 and currently a new Spaghetti Western series produced by Bron Studio that will be released in 2021!
Curriculum Vitae
Awards
Winner: Reumert Talentpris for leading role in “The Woman in Black” |
Film
Finalmente l’alba | Stephen | Saverio Costanzo | Wildside |
Il sol dell'avvenire | Mark | Nanni Moretti | Sacher Film |
Scappo A Casa | Bojan | Enrico Lando | AGIDI/Rosebud Entertainment |
Gore | George | Michael Hoffman | Netflix |
EBOLA | Ralfie Bruhn | Christian Marazziti | Camaleo Film |
De Serpentis Munere | Father Benjamin | Roberto Leoni | MDL Creations |
Sights of Death 2047 | Jimmy | Alessandro Capone | AMBI Pictures - Red New Line S.r.l. |
The Unseen World | Carter | Liana Marabini | Condor Pictures |
Short films
Crooks | Snorre Ruhe | Hobby Films |
Disconnected | Christoffer Boe | Circus Alphaville |
Glade, dejlige jul | Marc Louis Sutton | Shoot Happens |
Lonely Satisfaction | Maria Nørgaard | Zentropa |
Surrau | Danilo Costa | Vinge Surrau | |
Miss Wolf and the Lamb | Roberto Leoni | MDL Creations S.r.l. |
TV
Unwanted | Sec | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Indiana Production |
Concordia | Ole | Barbara Eder | Intaglio Films |
Television
That Dirty Black Bag | Nathan | Mauro Aragoni, Brian O'Malley | BRON Studio/Palomar |
The Name of the Rose | Benno of Uppsala | Giacomo Battiato | BBC/RAI/Palomar/11 Marzo |
Don Matteo | Gerard | Raffaele Androsiglio | RAI |
The Bodyguard | Enricho Biancho | Edoardo Margheriti | Leader Film Company |
DR Kirken | Judas Iscariot | Janne Wibroe | DR |
Blekingegade | Frank | Anders Riss-Hansen | Zentropa - Denmark |
Theater
A Midsummer Night's Dream | Lysander | Thomas Magnussen & Lars Mikkelsen | Det Kongelige Teater |
Art | Serge | Ian Burns | That Theatre Company |
After Miss Julie | John | Ian Burns | That Theatre Company |
Hamlet | Hamlet | Barry McKenna | Kronborg Castle |
Marathon | Mark | Ian Burns | That Theatre Company |
Hamlet Shortcut | Hamlet | Lars Roman Engel | Hamlet Scenen |
The Seagull | Konstantin Treplyov | Fabiana Iacozzilli | Teatro Vascello, Rome |
The Woman In Black | Arthur Kipps | Barry McKenna | That Theatre Company |
Scenes From The Big Picture | Cooper | Silvio Peroni | Teatro Vascello |
Cyrano De Bergerac | Chistian de Neuvillette | Alessandro Preziosi & Nikolai Karpov | TSA and Khora Teatro |
A Chorus Line | Paul St. Marco | Ailleen Moir | Teatro della Cometa |
The Long Goodbye | Bill | Michael Walkup | The English Theater of Rome |