Ben Richards
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Ben Richards is an English
actor. He is best known for playing Bruno Milligan
in series 4 and 5 of the British TV
drama
Footballers' Wives
and in series 1 and 2 of its spin-off
Footballers' Wives: Extra Time
. He also appeared in the final ever mini-episode of Footballers' Wives shown on 17 July 2006 as part of Sport Relief
night.
In 2006 he became a judge on Strictly Dance Fever
, hosted by Graham Norton
. He was alongside choreographers Stacey Haynes, Arlene Phillips
and Wayne Sleep
. He appeared in Holby City
in 2006, as physiotherapist Justin Fuller. He also appeared on Stars in their Eyes
as Ricky Martin
.
At the start of 2007 Richards joined ITV
drama The Bill
as PC Nate Roberts. He appeared with his family on All Star Family Fortunes
on 8 December 2007. It was revealed on the show that Ben had previously released a single to the UK charts, and it was played on the show, much to Richards' embarrassment. He has also appeared on Loose Women
several times.
He assumed the role of Tick (Mitzi) from Jason Donovan
in Priscilla Queen of the Desert – the Musical since 1 June 2010.
Ben playing Captin Hook in Peter Pan December 2011 at Southampton's May Flower
Ben is patron to Expressions Performing Arts in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. www.expressionsperformingarts.co.uk
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
actor. He is best known for playing Bruno Milligan
Bruno Milligan
Bruno Milligan is a fictional character on ITV British dramas Footballers' Wives and Footballers' Wives: Extra Time, played by English actor Ben Richards.-Series 4:Bruno was first introduced on the trip to Spain. He has a wife and daughter...
in series 4 and 5 of the British TV
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
Footballers' Wives
Footballers' Wives
Footballers' Wives is a British television drama surrounding the fictional Premier League Association football club Earls Park F.C., its players, and their wives. It was broadcast on the ITV network from 8 January 2002 to 14 April 2006...
and in series 1 and 2 of its spin-off
Spin-off (media)
In media, a spin-off is a radio program, television program, video game, or any narrative work, derived from one or more already existing works, that focuses, in particular, in more detail on one aspect of that original work...
Footballers' Wives: Extra Time
Footballers' Wives: Extra Time
Footballers' Wives: Extra Time is a British drama programme. A spin-off of Footballers' Wives, the programme aired on ITV2 for two series...
. He also appeared in the final ever mini-episode of Footballers' Wives shown on 17 July 2006 as part of Sport Relief
Sport Relief
Sport Relief is a biennial charity event from Comic Relief, in association with BBC Sport, which brings together the worlds of sport and entertainment to raise money to help vulnerable people in both the UK and the world's poorest countries...
night.
In 2006 he became a judge on Strictly Dance Fever
Strictly Dance Fever
Strictly Dance Fever is a British television programme, broadcast on BBC One on Saturday evenings. It was an amateur dance talent competition, hosted by Graham Norton, which ran during Spring 2005 and Spring 2006. It was, in many ways, similar to the BBC's popular Strictly Come Dancing, a celebrity...
, hosted by Graham Norton
Graham Norton
Graham William Walker, known by his stage name Graham Norton , is an Irish actor, comedian, television presenter and columnist...
. He was alongside choreographers Stacey Haynes, Arlene Phillips
Arlene Phillips
Arlene Phillips OBE is an English choreographer, theatre director, talent scout, TV presenter, TV judge and former dancer, who has worked in many fields of entertainment...
and Wayne Sleep
Wayne Sleep
Wayne Philip Colin Sleep OBE is a British dancer, director, choreographer and panelist. He was a Principal Dancer with the Royal Ballet and has appeared as a Guest Artist with several other ballet companies.-Early life:...
. He appeared in Holby City
Holby City
Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...
in 2006, as physiotherapist Justin Fuller. He also appeared on Stars in their Eyes
Stars In Their Eyes
Stars in Their Eyes is a British television talent show that ran on Saturdays nights from 21 July 1990 until 23 December 2006 in which contestants impersonate showbiz stars...
as Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin
Enrique "Ricky" Martín Morales , better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican and Spanish pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.During his career he has sold more than 60 million album copies worldwide...
.
At the start of 2007 Richards joined ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
drama The Bill
The Bill
The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
as PC Nate Roberts. He appeared with his family on All Star Family Fortunes
All Star Family Fortunes (series 2)
The second series of All Star Family Fortunes began on ITV on 27 October 2007. It is scheduled for a ten week run. It runs every Saturday night with the exception of the last two episodes of the series which are scheduled to air on 25 December and 5 January 2008 respectively...
on 8 December 2007. It was revealed on the show that Ben had previously released a single to the UK charts, and it was played on the show, much to Richards' embarrassment. He has also appeared on Loose Women
Loose Women
Loose Women is a British lunchtime television programme, first broadcast in 1999 on ITV. It consists of a panel of four women who interview celebrities and discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs, to celebrity gossip...
several times.
He assumed the role of Tick (Mitzi) from Jason Donovan
Jason Donovan
Jason Donovan is an Australian actor and singer. He initially achieved fame in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, before beginning a career in music in 1988. In the UK he has sold over 3 million records, and his début album Ten Good Reasons was one of the highest-selling albums of 1989...
in Priscilla Queen of the Desert – the Musical since 1 June 2010.
Ben playing Captin Hook in Peter Pan December 2011 at Southampton's May Flower
Ben is patron to Expressions Performing Arts in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. www.expressionsperformingarts.co.uk
Theatre credits
- Time FliesTime FliesTime Flies was an American straight edge hardcore punk band from Virginia in the late 1990s and the height of the youth crew revival . They shared members with the band Count Me Out, also from Virginia...
- Robin Hood & Babes in the Wood
- The All New Jimmy Cricket Show
- Radio Times
- The Joe Longthorne Summer Show
- The Magic of the Musicals Tour
- The Golden Songs of the Silver Screen Tour
- Tribute to Rudolf Nuryev
- Meet the Boys
- Up on the RoofUp on the RoofUp on the Roof is a musical by Simon Moore and Jane Prowse, which follows a decade in the lives of five friends who form an a cappella singing group at university....
- Hot MikadoHot MikadoHot Mikado is a musical comedy, based on Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, adapted by David H. Bell and Rob Bowman...
- GreaseGrease (musical)Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School , follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love,...
- Smokey Joe's Cafe
- Saturday Night FeverSaturday Night FeverSaturday Night Fever is a 1977 drama film directed by John Badham and starring: John Travolta as Tony Manero, an immature young man whose weekends are spent visiting a local Brooklyn discothèque; Karen Lynn Gorney as his dance partner and eventual friend; and Donna Pescow as Tony's former dance...
- The Full MontyThe Full MontyThe Full Monty is a 1997 British comedy film directed by Peter Cattaneo, starring Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, William Snape, Steve Huison, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Barber, and Hugo Speer. The screenplay was written by Simon Beaufoy...
- Priscilla Queen of the Desert – the Musical
- Peter PanPeter PanPeter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie . A mischievous boy who can fly and magically refuses to grow up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang the Lost Boys, interacting with...
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007–2010 | The Bill The Bill The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work... |
PC Nathaniel Roberts | 90 episodes |
| 2006 | Holby City Holby City Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999... |
Justin Fuller | 10 episodes |
| 2005–2006 | Footballers' Wives: Extra Time Footballers' Wives: Extra Time Footballers' Wives: Extra Time is a British drama programme. A spin-off of Footballers' Wives, the programme aired on ITV2 for two series... |
Bruno Milligan Bruno Milligan Bruno Milligan is a fictional character on ITV British dramas Footballers' Wives and Footballers' Wives: Extra Time, played by English actor Ben Richards.-Series 4:Bruno was first introduced on the trip to Spain. He has a wife and daughter... |
11 episodes |
| 2005–2006 | Footballers' Wives Footballers' Wives Footballers' Wives is a British television drama surrounding the fictional Premier League Association football club Earls Park F.C., its players, and their wives. It was broadcast on the ITV network from 8 January 2002 to 14 April 2006... |
Bruno Milligan Bruno Milligan Bruno Milligan is a fictional character on ITV British dramas Footballers' Wives and Footballers' Wives: Extra Time, played by English actor Ben Richards.-Series 4:Bruno was first introduced on the trip to Spain. He has a wife and daughter... |
17 episodes |
| 2001 | Doctors | Jimmy Lancaster | 3 episodes |
| 2001 | Holby City Holby City Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999... |
Glen Acfield | 1 episode |
| 1999 | Dad Dad (TV series) Dad is a BBC1 sitcom that ran for 13 episodes over two series and a Christmas special. Described by the BBC as a 'generation-gap comedy', it starred George Cole as Brian Hook, Kevin McNally as his son Alan Hook, and Toby Ross-Bryant as his son Vincent Hook and Julia Hills as his wife Beryl Hook... |
Tod | 1 episode |
Film
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Julie and the Cadillacs | Mike Williams | Musical film |
| 1997 | Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis is a British comedy film directed by John Henderson, originally released in 1997.-Plot:The film stars Rik Mayall as a rock manager who recruits Jane Horrocks... |
Mark | Comedy film |
External links
- Ben Richards at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...