Ben Willbond

Benjamin Thomas Willbond born 18 January 1973 is an English actor and screenwriter He is best known for his numerous roles in a childrens program Horrible Histories 20092013 as well as Yonderland 20132016 where he also played various different roles and Ghosts 2019 where he played The Captain He is also known for appearing in movies such as St Trinians 2007 Bill 2015 and Bridget Joness Baby 2016 He was part of the comedy duo Ben Arn for which he won Perrier Award for Best Newcomer in 1999 and formed the selfproclaimed thinking mans French pop duo Priorité à Gauche He then went on to perform his solo character shows at several Edinburgh Fringe Festivals He is best known for his regular role in CBBCs Horrible Histories in which he played a wide variety of historical figures most memorably recurring roles as Henry VIII and Alexander the Great He is also the cocreator writer and star of Yonderland a family fantasy comedy series that premiered on SkyOne on 10 November 2013 In addition he is the cowriter of Bill a BBCproduced comedy film based loosely around the early life of William Shakespeare Other notable television work includes the recurring roles of Steve Warwick in the BBC comedy Rev Adam Kenyon in BBC Fours The Thick of It and as a television director in the movielength final episode of the Ricky Gervais comedy Extras BBC Two He has also appeared in Katy Brands Big Ass Show for ITV2 and Mayo for BBC One His 2010 short film Tootys Wedding which he cowrote with Solon won numerous international comedy awards and was screened as part of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival Other notable film work includes the movie Starter for 10 2006 In 2007 and he had a short appearance in St Trinians as a nervous school inspector Description above is from the Wikipedia article Ben Willbond licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia