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Ben Shenkman - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Shankman was born in New York to Shepard A. Shankman, who worked for a consulting company, and his wife Katherine, a lawyer at a law firm. He graduated from Brown University and then received his Master of Fine Arts from New York University in 1993, completing the acting program at the Tisch School of the Arts. Shankman's sister Elizabeth is married to British publicist Jamie Byng, with whom she has two children: Ivy and Nathani.
Since 2005, Shankman has been married to Lauren Bennett Greilshemer.
Shankman began his professional acting career with a small role in Robert Redford's 1994 film Trivia and a guest role on the television series Law & Order, which was the first of seven appearances for the actor on the show. He also began working at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, playing the role of Luis Irons in Tony Kushner's Angels in America.
While at New York University, Shankman played the role of Roy Cohn in a studio production of this play, and eight years later he again played the role of Louis Irons in the HBO miniseries Angels in America, receiving Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. ". In the 1990s, Shankman combined his work in off-Broadway productions in New York with minor roles in films such as The Eraser (1996), The Siege (1998), Pi (1998), Son of Jesus (1999) , "Obsessive Dream" (2000) and "Requiem for a Dream" (2000). In 2000, he successfully starred in the theatrical production of the Manhattan Theater Club of Proof with Mary-Louise Parker. For this work, he received a Tony Award nomination. After the HBO miniseries Angels in America, he returned to the Manhattan Theater Club to stage Behind the Eyes with Laura Linney in 2004.
Shankman continued to build a career by combining studio films such as Must Love Dogs (2005) and Between Heaven and Earth (2005) and independent films such as So She Found Me (2007). "Short Interviews with Scum" (2007), and "Obnoxious Boy" (2007). In 2010, he appeared in Sexaholic with Michael Douglas and Valentine with Ryan Gosling.
