Ben Starr is an English actor. After a string of minor roles, mainly on television, he had his breakthrough as a voice actor after voicing Clive Rosfield in the action role-playing game Final Fantasy XVI (2023). This role earned him the award for "Best Lead Performer" at the 2023 Golden Joystick Awards, a nomination for the "Best Performance" award at The Game Awards that year and another nomination at the 2024 New York Game Awards.
Starr has subsequently gone on to voice many characters in video games, most notably Verso in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (2025), which earned him a second award, for "Best Supporting Performer" this time, at the 2025 Golden Joystick Awards and yet another nomination for the "Best Performance" award at The Game Awards 2025. The same year, he voiced Prometheus in another critically acclaimed title, Hades II. Since 2024, he has also portrayed Raidion Thornbear in the Fallen Fates' play web series Natural Six alongside other professionals from the UK gaming industry.
Biography
Starr was born in Bristol. He attended Queen Elizabeth's Hospital School and was Captain of School 2005/6. While at school he was a member of Great Western Youth Theatre, Bristol Old Vic Youth Theatre and HTV Television Workshop. He studied History at the Durham University and was President of Castle Theatre Company, a member of DULOG, as well as a founding member of DIM. On graduating from Durham he completed a 2 year postgraduate acting course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
Starr voiced the main character Clive Rosfield in the role-playing video game Final Fantasy XVI, for which his performance was widely acclaimed and enriched his stardom in the video game industry. He also hosted the Golden Joystick Awards in 2024, after having won the award for Best Lead Performer the previous year.[3][4] He reprised his role as a DLC character in the first season pass for the fighting game Tekken 8.
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