About

Ben O’Toole graduated from WAAPA in 2011 and made his feature film debut playing Russell Crowe’s son in The Water Diviner. Ben featured in the Jerry Bruckheimer produced film 12 Strong opposite Chris Hemsworth and was also cast in Kathryn Bigelow’s drama DETROIT. Prior to this, he appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, and in the Mel Gibson directed WWII film Hacksaw Ridge opposite Andrew Garfield. Ben starred in the romantic comedy Everybody Loves Somebody opposite Karla Souza in 2017, and in the film Nekrotronic with Monica Belluci. In 2020 Ben played the lead role of “Rex” in the darkly comedic feature film Bloody Hell.

In 2020 Ben featured in the television reboot of the beloved series Halifax: Retribution starring Rebecca Gibney. Ben was a main cast member in the Channel Nine television series Amazing Grace which also starred Sigrid Thornton and Alex Dimitriades. Most recently Ben was seen in the ABC series Barons. He has also just completed filming for the television adaptation of Trent Dalton’s novel Boy Swallows Universe. Ben performed in the Sydney Theatre Company’s 2018 production of Harp in the South and was most recently seen on stage in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall for the Sydney Theatre Company in 2022.