Benedick Bates

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Benedick Bates
BornNovember 1970 (age 55)
United Kingdom
OccupationActor
ChildrenSofia Bates, Ava Bates, Sienna Bates
Parent(s) Sir Alan Bates
Victoria Ward

Benedick Bates (born November 1970 [1] ) is a British actor.

He is the son of actor Sir Alan Bates and actress Victoria Ward and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

He has performed numerous times with the Glasgow Citizens Company, at the Chichester Festival Theatre and Edinburgh Festival, and in London's West End, in stage productions which include Don Carlos , Romeo and Juliet , The Return of A. J. Raffles , The Rose Tattoo , The Picture of Dorian Gray , and Semi-Monde . [2]

In 2002, Bates made his Broadway debut opposite his father in Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool . [3] [2]

Bates's twin brother Tristan, also an actor, Tristan died following an ingestion of alcohol and either opium or heroin in Tokyo in 1990. [4] Benedick Bates is a vice-president of the Tristan Bates Theatre, established at the Actors Centre in his memory. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Benedick BATES". Companies House. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  2. 1 2 Hernandez, Ernio (18 September 2003). "Benedick Bates, Son of Original Butley, Joins Lane in Boston Staging, Oct. 24-Nov. 30". Playbill. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  3. ↑ "Suffering Fools - Nymag". New York Magazine. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  4. ↑ Spoto, Donald (2007). Otherwise Engaged: The Life of Alan Bates. London: Hutchinson. pp. 320–321, 391
  5. ↑ "About Tristan Bates Theatre". Tristan Bates Theatre. Archived from the original on 8 January 2007. Retrieved 8 November 2007.
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