Benn Northover

Benn Northover
Benn Northover (Photo by Andrew H. Walker)
Born	(1981-01-03) 3 January 1981 (age 36) Suffolk
Nationality	English

Benn Northover (born 3 January 1981) is an English actor and artist.

He made his screen debut in the drama Hostage to Terror. Northover's other notable film roles include Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Batzan Trilogy, Lotus Eaters, House of Boys, crime thriller Tutti i rumori del mare and director Mike Figgis' Lucrezia Borgia.

Northover was born in Ipswich, Suffolk. After high school he studied art and film before moving to New York to study drama at The Stella Adler Studio.

Northover's early screen appearances included dramas Ultimate Force and Silent Witness.His first lead role was in gritty TV drama, Hostage to Terror, for which he received The Times Critics Choice. He later reunited with director Finn McGough on Avalanche of Terror about British climber Ken Jones. The series received critical acclaim around the world.

In 2010 Northover made his feature film debut in the hard hitting AIDS drama House of Boys opposite Stephen Fry and Udo Kier, shedding 40 lbs to play the film's lead character, a young street hustler living with AIDS in the early 1980s. The film went on to receive several international awards. Northover then appeared in the 7th installment of the Harry Potter franchise, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In an interview with Paper Magazine, he described his experience on the production as "the biggest machine I have ever encountered."

In 2012 he starred in the hit indie feature Lotus Eaters opposite Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Johnny Flynn and the film adaptation of Donizetti's opera Lucrezia Borgia by director Mike Figgis.

In 2013 Italian director Federico Brugia cast Northover as the villain in his feature debut Tutti i rumori del mare. Set in the bleak underworld of the Hungarian human trafficking business. In an interview with AnOther Magazine Northover commented on his character in the film, saying "It's his personal demons that keep his conscience at a safe distance and eventually it's his human weaknesses that get the better of him." The film went on to win the special jury prize at the Annecy Italian Film Festival.

In 2014 Northover appeared in Je m'appelle Hmmm..., the directorial debut by agnès b., and in Frédéric Auburtin's epic ensemble film United Passions as Max Kahn, one of the founding members of FIFA, alongside Gérard Depardieu and Tim Roth.