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Benedick Bates
British actor (born 1970)
Benedick Bates | |
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| Born | November 1970 (age 54) United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Children | Sofia Bates, Ava Bates, Sienna Bates |
| Parent(s) | Sir Alan Bates Victoria Ward |
Benedick Bates (born November 1970[1]) is a British actor.
He is the son of actor Sir Alan Bates and actress Victoria Ward and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
He has performed numerous times with the Glasgow Citizens Company, at the Chichester Festival Theatre and Edinburgh Festival, and in London's West End, in stage productions which include Don Carlos, Romeo and Juliet, The Return of A.
J. Raffles, The Rose Tattoo, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Semi-Monde.[2]
In 2002, Bates made his Broadway debut opposite his father in Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool.[3][2]
Bates's twin brother Tristan, also an actor, died unexpectedly of an asthma-related respiratory ill