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Name: Robert Benedic Browder

Nickname: Benny
Birthday: December 11,1962 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Family: married to actress Francesca Buller since 1989. 2 kids.
Height: 6'1"
Hair: brown
Eyes: blue

Life so far: Ben Browder was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He attended Myers Park High School in Charlotte, North-Carolina and earned a BS in psychology at Furman University. He went on to study drama at Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England, where he met his wife Francesca Buller. 2002 he and his family moved to Australia where both he and Francesca worked on the SciFi television series "Farscape" (1999). The couple has two children which they both protect from the public eye.

After several appearances on stage, including traditional Shakespeare, Ben garnered a few minor appearances in feature films, including a small part as a rookie captain in Memphis Belle (1990) and the role of a short-lived boyfriend in A Kiss Before Dying (1991) with Sean Young and Matt Dillon. He was first widely exposed to the American and Canadian television viewing audiences as the recurring character of "Sam" on the series Party of Five (1994). In 1999, Jim Henson productions teamed with the SciFi Channel to produce Farscape (1999), where Browder was cast to play the main character, American astronaut John Crichton.

Browder's family used to own and operate a NASCAR Busch series race car, driven by his brother Neil Browder. He counts Diet Mountain Dew, Clark Bars, and Crisco among the comforts of home most missed while living abroad. His favourite movie is Jeremiah Johnson (1972), the concept of which was warped into an episode of his show, Farscape (1999). Ben joined the regular cast of Stargate SG-1 for it's ninth season in 2005 playing the new lead, Cameron Mitchell until the show was cancelled after it's 10th season. Ben currently develops a new show for SciFi together with former Farscape colleague, Andrew Prowse, called Going Homer.




Biography partly taken from the IMDB