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Ben Foster (born October 29, 1980) is an American actor.

Foster was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a Jewish American family; he has a younger brother, Jon, who has also become an actor. Foster's parents were former Vietnam-protesters who settled in Fairfield, Iowa, a small town, after their Boston house was burglarized.[1]

At the age of 16, Foster dropped out of high school and moved to Los Angeles. In 1996, he appeared in the television series Flash Forward. In the following years, Foster was predominantly cast in guest roles on various television shows. In 2001, he acted in Get Over It. Foster also had a recurring role as Russell Corwin (22 episodes) in the HBO Original Series, Six Feet Under. After he made 11:14 and The Punisher, Foster also appeared in Hostage at the side of Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak and Michelle Horn. In 2006, Foster appeared in X-Men: The Last Stand as the comic-book hero Angel/Warren Worthington III.

Filmography

• 3:10 to Yuma (2007) currently in pre-production
• X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) ... as Angel/Warren Worthington III
• Alpha Dog (2005) ... as Jake Mazursky
• Hostage (2005) ... as Mars Krupcheck
• The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004) ... as Fleshy Boy
  • ... aka Livre de Jérémie, Le (France)
• The Punisher (2004) ... as Spacker Dave
• 11:14 (2003) ... as Eddie
• Northfork (2003) ... as Cod
• Phone Booth (2002) (uncredited) .... as Big Q
• Bang Bang You're Dead (2002) ... as Trevor Adams
• Big Trouble (2002) ... as Matt Arnold
• The Laramie Project (2002) ... as Aaron Kreifels
• Get Over It (2001) ... as Berke Landers/Lysander
  • ... aka Get Over It! (USA: promotional title)
• Liberty Heights (1999) .... as Ben Kurtzman
• Breakfast with Einstein (1998) ... as Ryan
• I've Been Waiting for You (1998) ... as Charlie
• Flash Forward (1996) ... as Tucker 'Tuck' James
• Kounterfeit (1996) ... as Travis

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