Ben Hull

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Ben Hull (born November 8, 1972) is an English actor best known for playing Lewis Richardson in the Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks.

[edit] Career

Ben's first television appearance was in 1994 when he appeared in the TV series Revelations. In the same year he also appeared in the children's TV series Children's Ward. In 1997 he got his big break playing Lewis Richardson in the Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks, a role which he also played in a couple of the soap's spin-off TV series Hollyoaks: Movin On and Hollyoaks: Breaking Boundaries; he left this role in 2001. In 2002 he starred in another of Channel 4's soaps, the now defunct Brookside, playing Dr Gary Parr, but this was not Ben's first appearance in the soap, as a few years before he played a character called Syd Watts in one of the soap's spin-off videos, Brookside: Double Take. In 2003 he joined the BBC1 medical drama Casualty for 3 episodes, playing Dale Charters. Ben returned to soap operas when, in 2005, he joined Channel 5's now defunct Family Affairs, playing Adam Green, and in 2006 he starred in BBC1's day-time soap Doctors, playing John Myson. In 2007 it was announced that Ben would be starring in a new ITV1 TV series The Royal Today, which is a modern day spin-off from ITV1's 1960s TV series The Royal, playing Charge nurse Adam Fernley. The series is to be aired in 2008.

[edit] Personal life

He is married to actress and former Family Affairs co-star Anna Acton, with whom he runs a firm called The Next Big Thing, which helps actors find work.