Ben English

What interests me about Derek Hay, who performs as Ben English, is not the nearly 800 films or even the AVN Hall of Fame nod, but the pivot. Plenty of performers simply retire; he built and ran LA Direct Models, moving from in front of the camera to the business side of the industry. That takes a kind of nerve and commercial sense most never develop. His is a polarizing field, and I understand why some will look away, but I find it hard not to respect someone from rural Lincolnshire who mastered one lane and then expanded into management on his own terms. That trajectory is genuinely uncommon.

Name (English)

Ben English

Name (Japanese)

ベン・イングリッシュ

Reading

べん・いんぐりっしゅ

Born

August 12, 1964 (age 61)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Dragon

Origin

Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

Occupation

pornographic actor

Awards & achievements

• 2014 AVN Hall of Fame
• 2004 XRCO Award
• 2004 AVN Award for Best Male Newcomer
• 2009 AVN Award for Best Supporting Actor

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5

Tags

• pornographic actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.