Ben Hardy

Ben Hardy, born in Bournemouth and raised in Sherborne, is an English actor who trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and started out in theater, playing Arthur Wellesley in David Hare's The Judas Kiss at the Hampstead Theatre before it transferred to the West End. He became known to British television viewers as Peter Beale in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 2013 to 2015. His film debut came as the winged mutant Archangel in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), followed by the firefighter drama Only the Brave (2017) and Mary Shelley (2017). He played Queen drummer Roger Taylor in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), a role that brought the cast a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, and later appeared in 6 Underground (2019) and Pixie (2020). His television work includes The Woman in White (2018) and The Girl Before (2021), and he appeared in The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025).