Benjamin Walker

Benjamin Walker is one of those actors who quietly does something genuinely bold and then somehow doesn't become a household name for it — which is baffling to me. His turn as Andrew Jackson in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson on Broadway was electric: playing one of American history's most complicated figures as an emo-rock antihero takes real nerve and physical commitment, and Walker pulled it off with a swagger that felt earned, not gimmicky. Growing up in Cartersville, Georgia gives him that grounded Southern weight that comes through even in his bigger genre work like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. He's got range — stage chops, screen presence, a dry comedic edge — and I keep expecting Hollywood to figure that out on a larger scale. Underrated is too soft a word for him; he's genuinely gifted.

Name (English)

Benjamin Walker

Name (Japanese)

ベンジャミン・ウォーカー

Reading

べんじゃみん・うぉーかー

Born

June 21, 1982 (age 44)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dog

Origin

Cartersville, Georgia, United States

Height

2 cm

Occupation

film actor / stage actor / television actor / stand-up comedian / actor

High school

Cartersville High School

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%9F%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC

Tags

• Georgia
• film actor
• stage actor
• television 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.