Ben Shockley was born on 3rd February, 1965 in Hythe, Kent, England. He is an actor, director, producer, and writer. As an actor he is known for On The Ropes, Vendetta, and After Death.He is the son of Alan and Elsie White.After first appearing in Rep, Ben began his career doing sketch comedy. Shortly after he started to appear as an actor in TV shows such as Spatz, Streetwise, Crime Monthly and The Bill.He has been in numerous stage plays and shows and has toured extensively throughout the UK and Ireland, as well as appearing at the San Francisco Fringe festival, The Edinburgh Festival and in the West End, where he worked with David Tennant, Andy Serkis, Mark Benton and Rupert Graves in Hurlyburly.After appearing in over a dozen short films, Ben then moved into feature films. He played bit parts in the independent feature films Written in Blood and Left for Dead, and since 2005 has appeared in many other feature films, which include independent and more mainstream movies.In 2005 actor and film maker Ken Colley asked Ben to play a lead role in his feature film directorial debut called Greetings.Since then Ben has played lead roles, character parts, as well as the odd bit parts in feature films such as Ten Dead Men (narrated by the Horror Legend Doug Bradley), Dark Secrets (with martial artist Gary Daniels), Counterfeit Butterfly, Bad Day (with Sarah Harding from 'Girl's Aloud'), Bloodmyth, Dark Rage, The Firm and The Shouting Men (with Craig Fairbrass), most of which are available to buy on DVD.Ben's recent feature Films include On The Ropes in which he co-starred with Mark Noyce, Death in which he co-starred with Leslie Phillips, and the Danny Dyer film Vendetta.He has just shot a short film with Mark Benton and is also co-starring in the feature film The Blazing Cannons which he also co-wrote and is co-directing.