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Ben Starr (actor)
Ben Starr (born 1 April 1988) is an English actor. After a string of minor roles, mainly on television, he had his breakthrough as Clive Rosfield, the protagonist of the role-playing game Final Fantasy XVI (2023). This role earned him the award for Best Lead Performer at the Golden Joystick Awards 2023 and a nomination for Best Performance at the Game Awards 2023.
Starr has subsequently voiced many characters in video games, including Verso in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (2025), which earned him the award for Best Supporting Performer at the Golden Joystick Awards 2025 and another nomination for Best Performance at the Game Awards 2025. The same year, he voiced Prometheus in Hades II.
Starr was born in Bristol. He attended Queen Elizabeth's Hospital School and was captain of school 2005/6. While at school he was a member of Great Western Youth Theatre, Bristol Old Vic Youth Theatre and HTV Television Workshop. He studied history at Durham University and was president of Castle Theatre Company, a member of DULOG, as well as a founding member of DIM. On graduating from Durham he completed a two-year postgraduate acting course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
His first role was in Father Brown in 2013, followed by Doctors in 2013, and The Musketeers in 2015. He played Captain James Hawdon in the BBC series Dickensian. In 2016, he had roles in Casualty as Nathan Mason and he starred in the role of Donatello in Medici: Masters of Florence. In 2017 he landed a recurring role as the Apothecary, Dr Christopher Priestley, in the Sky1 series Jamestown.
Starr voiced the main character Clive Rosfield in the role-playing video game Final Fantasy XVI, for which his performance was widely acclaimed and enriched his stardom in the video game industry. He also hosted the Golden Joystick Awards in 2024, after having won the award for Best Lead Performer the previous year. He reprised his role as a DLC character in the first season pass for the fighting game Tekken 8.
Starr would also go on to star as Jimbo when advertising the 2024 indie game Balatro. During the 21st British Academy Games Awards, he would reprise this role to accept the Debut Game Award on Balatro creator LocalThunk's behalf. Starr hosted the Magic: the Gathering panel at PAX East 2025 for the debut showcase for the Final Fantasy set. He voiced the character Verso in the 2025 video game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. In 2026 he joined the cast of Fortnite as part of fictional organisation "The Seven" including other star names like Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Brie Larson.
In May 2026, Starr announced that he will play the role of Tempest Bayor in the upcoming video game Soulframe, and will be debuting in the game's playable Pre-alpha version at TennoCon 2026.
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Ben Starr (actor)
Ben Starr (born 1 April 1988) is an English actor. After a string of minor roles, mainly on television, he had his breakthrough as Clive Rosfield, the protagonist of the role-playing game Final Fantasy XVI (2023). This role earned him the award for Best Lead Performer at the Golden Joystick Awards 2023 and a nomination for Best Performance at the Game Awards 2023.
Starr has subsequently voiced many characters in video games, including Verso in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (2025), which earned him the award for Best Supporting Performer at the Golden Joystick Awards 2025 and another nomination for Best Performance at the Game Awards 2025. The same year, he voiced Prometheus in Hades II.
Starr was born in Bristol. He attended Queen Elizabeth's Hospital School and was captain of school 2005/6. While at school he was a member of Great Western Youth Theatre, Bristol Old Vic Youth Theatre and HTV Television Workshop. He studied history at Durham University and was president of Castle Theatre Company, a member of DULOG, as well as a founding member of DIM. On graduating from Durham he completed a two-year postgraduate acting course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
His first role was in Father Brown in 2013, followed by Doctors in 2013, and The Musketeers in 2015. He played Captain James Hawdon in the BBC series Dickensian. In 2016, he had roles in Casualty as Nathan Mason and he starred in the role of Donatello in Medici: Masters of Florence. In 2017 he landed a recurring role as the Apothecary, Dr Christopher Priestley, in the Sky1 series Jamestown.
Starr voiced the main character Clive Rosfield in the role-playing video game Final Fantasy XVI, for which his performance was widely acclaimed and enriched his stardom in the video game industry. He also hosted the Golden Joystick Awards in 2024, after having won the award for Best Lead Performer the previous year. He reprised his role as a DLC character in the first season pass for the fighting game Tekken 8.
Starr would also go on to star as Jimbo when advertising the 2024 indie game Balatro. During the 21st British Academy Games Awards, he would reprise this role to accept the Debut Game Award on Balatro creator LocalThunk's behalf. Starr hosted the Magic: the Gathering panel at PAX East 2025 for the debut showcase for the Final Fantasy set. He voiced the character Verso in the 2025 video game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. In 2026 he joined the cast of Fortnite as part of fictional organisation "The Seven" including other star names like Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Brie Larson.
In May 2026, Starr announced that he will play the role of Tempest Bayor in the upcoming video game Soulframe, and will be debuting in the game's playable Pre-alpha version at TennoCon 2026.