Ben Shenkman

Ben Shenkman

Birthday: 1968-09-26

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Biography: Benjamin Shenkman is an American actor, known for his roles in the comedy-drama series Royal Pains and the acclaimed HBO miniseries Angels in America, which earned him both Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations. 

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Pi
Pi

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict...

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Quiz Show
Quiz Show

Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures vic...

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Chasing Sleep
Chasing Sleep

A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand he...

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Just Like Heaven
Just Like Heaven

Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his...

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Then She Found Me
Then She Found Me

A New York schoolteacher experiences a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves,...

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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthrop...

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Solitary Man
Solitary Man

A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and r...

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Breakfast with Scot
Breakfast with Scot

The lives of Eric, an ex hockey player, and his partner Sam, are thrown into turmoil when they are f...

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Blue Valentine
Blue Valentine

Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their fe...

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The Key Man
The Key Man

An insurance salesman gets mixed up with two gangsters in effort to make more money and provide for ...

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Concussion
Concussion

After a blow to the head, Abby decides she can't do it anymore. Her life just can't be only about th...

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Forty Winks
Forty Winks

Forty Winks follows Fabio Berker, struggling Hypnotist in New York City, as he is blackmailed into b...

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Breathe In
Breathe In

When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamic...

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Camp Stories
Camp Stories

A man named David Katz remembers the formative summer he spent as a kid in an Orthodox Jewish summer...

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Table One
Table One

Four friends (Stephen Baldwin, Michael Rooker, Luis Guzman and David Herman) who are misfits in the ...

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Thick as Thieves
Thick as Thieves

Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first, a su...

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30 Days
30 Days

Jordan meets Sarah on a blind date. His family announces they're moving, and his best friend is gett...

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People I Know
People I Know

A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal....

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Joe Gould's Secret
Joe Gould's Secret

Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who...

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Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, w...

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The Conspiracy
The Conspiracy

It’s an insidious, centuries-old conspiracy theory that continues to rear its ugly head today: Jews ...

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Requiem for a Dream
Requiem for a Dream

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep...

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Must Love Dogs
Must Love Dogs

Sarah Nolan is a newly divorced woman cautiously rediscovering romance with the enthusiastic but oft...

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Personal Velocity
Personal Velocity

In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who res...

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Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
Christmas Eve in Miller's Point

A family gathers on Christmas Eve for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home. As the...

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Americanese
Americanese

Long after their breakup, Chinese American Raymond Ding and Amerasian Aurora Crane struggle to let g...

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The Auction
The Auction

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Roger Dodger
Roger Dodger

A smooth-talking ad executive attributes his remarkable success with women to his ability to manipul...

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Jesus' Son
Jesus' Son

A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassio...

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The Trial of the Chicago 7
The Trial of the Chicago 7

What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followe...

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Eraser
Eraser

A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involv...

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The Siege
The Siege

The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of te...

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After
After

A man named Ethan, a retired true-crime podcaster, is forced to dive back into danger when his siste...

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Stella Shorts 1998-2002
Stella Shorts 1998-2002

STELLA is a three-man comedy troupe from New York City, comprised of well-known comedians/actors Mic...

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