Ben Price (born 30 June 1972) is a British actor, director and writer. He has played the role of

Nick Tilsley Nick Tilsley (also Platt) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street''. He was born off screen during an episode broadcast on 31 December 1980, but made his first appearance on 5 January 1981. He was played b ...

in the ITV soap opera ''

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'' and has made four films as a writer/director, the first of which, ''I'm Sorry To Tell You'', was BAFTA-shortlisted.

Early life

Price grew up in

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, where he attended

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and

Gosforth High School Gosforth Academy (formerly Gosforth High School) is an English secondary school in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne. As well as having a sixth form department it is a specialist Language College. Many of its mainstream students come from three lar ...

before taking acting classes at the

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. He then attended London's Drama Centre and graduated from the

Central School of Speech and Drama The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama was founded by Elsie Fogerty in 1906, as The Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students. It became a ...

in 1996.

Career

Price started his career at the

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, and went on to appear at the Bush in London, the Gate in Dublin and Sheffield Crucible among others. He made his first appearance on television, in a 1996 episode of '' Casualty'', before guest roles in ''

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'', '' Heartbeat'', ''

Peak Practice ''Peak Practice'' is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale—a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District—and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their m ...

'', and an episode of the Australian soap opera, ''

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'', in 1998, when the show filmed a storyline in England. After starring in ''

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'', he played Conrad Gates, captain of Earl's Park

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, in the British television series ''

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''. After leaving the show at the end of the fourth series, he went on to appear in ''Dancing at Lughnassa'' at the Gate theatre, Dublin. He co-stars in the horror film '' Blood Trails'', which won the audience award for best feature at the Dead by Dawn International Horror Film Festival 2006 in Edinburgh. He returned to ''Casualty'' and starred as corporate director Nathan Spencer between 2005 and 2007, and was recently voted one of the ten actors most likely to succeed in Hollywood by ''Stage and Screen'' magazine. Price appeared on the July 2006 cover of ''

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'' magazine. In 2009 he appeared in the third season of showtimes hit show ''

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'', playing the martyr

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. Price joined ''

'' as

in 2009. He began filming on 19 October 2009 and was seen on screen for the first time on 21 December 2009. Ben's first 4 films have played at over 60 International Film festivals, 25 of which were BAFTA- or Academy-qualifying. His first short, "I'm Sorry To Tell You", was shortlisted at BAFTA and is distributed worldwide by Shorts International. His second film, "Taubman", was shown at the Oscar-qualifying Athens Film Festival, opened the Manchester film festival and was shown as part of a special section at the BAFTA qualifying Jewish Film Festival. His latest film, “Hope Dies Last”, is part of the British Film Council short support scheme. BAFTA- and Oscar-qualified, it is currently touring the international festival circuit. In 2020 he filmed "3 Minutes of Silence" funded by the BFI and starring Bella Ramsey and Molly Wright. It's gone onto International recognition and has formed the basis for a Feature Film funded by the BFI. On 27 January 2017 it was announced he would be leaving the role of Nick Tilsley in ''Coronation Street'' later in 2017. On 23 April 2018 it was announced Price would be returning to ''Coronation Street'' in summer 2018 and would appear on screen from autumn 2018 following a year away from the role. Price has a podcast called Sofa Cinema Club with ''Coronation Street'' co-actors Jack P. Shepherd and Colson Smith.

Filmography

Films

Television

Stage

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Price, Ben 1972 births Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama English male television actors English male soap opera actors Living people People from Gosforth Male actors from Tyne and Wear People educated at Gosforth Academy Male actors from Newcastle upon Tyne 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors