Ben Price

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Ben Price (born 1972) is a British actor, known for his roles in the British television series' Footballers' Wives and Casualty.

He grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne where he attended Gosforth East Middle School^[1] and Gosforth High School^[2] before taking acting classes at The Live Theatre. He graduated from The Central School of Speech and Drama in 1996, in the same class as Sarah Manners and Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

After starring in Wire in the Blood, he found fame when he starred as bisexual Conrad Gates, the captain of Earl's Park football team, in the British television series Footballers' Wives. Price said he loved the role, driving around in expensive cars, living in mansions and working with a good crew, but he was not so keen on the large number of occasions that his posterior was shown.^{[citation needed]} After leaving the series he did some theatre work.

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, though the film has received mixed reviews following its DVD release in 2007.

He has starred in Casualty 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 Out magazine.