Michael Benz

Michael Benz is an English-American actor who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2007. Early television work included the British sitcom Mike and Angelo, in which he played Mike across six series and 60 episodes, and the title role in the BBC miniseries Little Lord Fauntleroy. After RADA he made his professional stage debut with Shakespeare's Globe in The Winter's Tale, and appeared there in Love's Labour's Lost, As You Like It and A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine. In 2011 he made his West End debut as Horatio in Trevor Nunn's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead and played Ferdinand in The Tempest opposite Ralph Fiennes. He played Hamlet for the Globe in 2012 and toured the United States with the production, and a Helen Hayes Awards nomination for outstanding lead actor followed. He also appeared in Downton Abbey and Joker (2019).