Ben ShenkmanFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Actor Ben Shenkman received a Masters of Fine Arts degree from New York University in 1992, and soon launched an acting career, dividing his time between regional theater, film, and television work. He made his TV debut in 1993 in an episode of the courtroom drama series Law & Order, and, in 1994...Read More

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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

Actors: Julianne Nicholson, John Krasinski, Bobby Cannavale, Timothy Hutton, Dominic Cooper

Synopsis: Adapted from the book by David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men tells the story of Sara Quinn, a graduate student in anthropology who's left feeling lost after her boyfriend breaks up with her and offers little explanation as to why. With her dissertation looming, Sara begins a Read More

9/25/09
Solitary Man

Actors: Michael Douglas, Mary-Louise Parker, Jenna Fischer, Jesse Eisenberg, Imogen Poots

Synopsis: Michael Douglas stars as a former car dealer who's turned his life upside down from years of infidelity and bad business practices in this Millennium Films production. Brian Koppelman directs from a script he wrote with David Levien; Susan Sarandon, Mary-Louise Parker, Danny DeVito, and Jenna Fischer Read More

2009
Breakfast With Scot

Actors: Tom Cavanagh, Ben Shenkman, Noah Bernett, Jeananne Goossen

Synopsis: A decidedly non-stereotypical gay male couple finds their efforts to keep their personal and professional lives completely separate challenged by the arrival of the gay nephew whose presence threatens to reveal their closely guarded secret in director Laurie Lynd's drama. Eric (Tom Cavanagh) is a Read More

10/10/08
Then She Found Me

Actors: Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick, Ben Shenkman

Synopsis: Academy Award-winning actress Helen Hunt makes her feature directorial debut with this adaptation of Elinor Lipman's best-selling novel about a Philadelphia schoolteacher (Hunt) whose long-lost birth mother (Bette Midler) reappears at the very moment her daughter is careening into a midlife Read More

4/25/08
Canterbury's Law [TV Series]

Actors: Julianna Margulies, Ben Shenkman, Trieste Dunn, Keith Robinson, Aidan Quinn

Synopsis: Created by Dave Erickson and co-produced by actor Denis Leary, the weekly, 60-minute legal drama Canterbury's Law starred Juliana Margulies as Elizabeth Canterbury, a tough, ruthless Providence (R.I.) attorney who specialized in defending such "controversial" clients as accused child murderers and Read More

2008
Stephen King's N [Animated Web Series]

Actors: Jeff Perry, Ben Shenkman, Karen Ziemba, Holter Graham

Synopsis: Award-winning comic book artist Alex Maleev collaborates with accomplished comic book colorist José Villarrubia to bring Stephen King's short story N to life in a series of twenty-five graphic video episodes. A respected scientist has fallen victim to the same deadly obsession as his troubled Read More

2008
Americanese

Actors: Chris Tashima, Allison Sie, Kelly Hu, Ben Shenkman, Joan Chen

Synopsis: Writer-director Eric Byler adapted his ensemble comedy-drama Americanese from Shawn Wong's bestselling 1995 roman American Knees. The film, like the novel, dramatizes the seriocomic, day-to-day experiences of a number of Asian American immigrants in the City of Angels. At the story's center Read More

8/10/07
Just Like Heaven

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, Donal Logue, Dina Waters, Ben Shenkman, Jon Heder, Ivana Milicevic

Synopsis: A couple who live on different sides of the divide of life and death discover just how many boundaries love can cross in this romantic comic fantasy. Elizabeth (Reese Witherspoon) is a hardworking and dedicated medical resident who, after 20 hours on duty, is heading home when she falls asleep at Read More

9/16/05
Must Love Dogs

Actors: Diane Lane, John Cusack, Elizabeth Perkins, Christopher Plummer, Dermot Mulroney

Synopsis: A woman finds herself drafted into the battle of finding the perfect man in this romantic comedy. Sarah Nolan (Diane Lane) is a kindergarten teacher in her mid-thirties who is still dealing with the emotional aftermath of her divorce eight months ago. While her sisters, Christine (Ali Hillis) and Read More

7/29/05
Waking Dreams

Actors: Ben Shenkman, Tina Holmes

2004
Angels in America

Actors: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeffrey Wright, Justin Kirk, Patrick Wilson, Ben Shenkman

Synopsis: The epic HBO miniseries Angels in America is directed by Mike Nichols and written by the play's author, Tony Kushner. This six-part drama is adapted from the two full-length award-winning plays (Part I: The Millennium Approaches and Part II: Perestroika) originally performed on Broadway in 1993. Read More

2003
Personal Velocity: Three Portraits

Actors: John Ventimiglia, Kyra Sedgwick, David Warshofsky, Brian Tarantina, Mara Hobel, Parker Posey, Fairuza Balk

Synopsis: Three women whose lives have followed very different paths ponder their pasts and their futures in this omnibus film from second-time director Rebecca Miller, adapted from her acclaimed short story collection of the same name. Delia (Kyra Sedgwick) grew up in a fractured household; her mother Read More

11/22/02
Roger Dodger

Actors: Campbell Scott, Jesse Eisenberg, Isabella Rossellini, Elizabeth Berkley, Jennifer Beals

Synopsis: Writer/director Dylan Kidd got a chance to make his script for Roger Dodger into a feature film when he boldly approached Campbell Scott in a café in Greenwich Village and made his pitch. Eventually, Scott would agree to executive produce and star in the film, and was responsible for bringing Jennifer Beals Read More

10/25/02
People I Know

Actors: Al Pacino, Kim Basinger, Ryan O'Neal, Téa Leoni, Richard Schiff

Synopsis: A powerful behind-the-scenes man in politics and show business finds himself skidding into a very public scandal in this taut drama. Eli Wurman (Al Pacino) was raised in the deep South, attended Harvard Law School, and has devoted his spare time to progressive political causes since working Read More

10/11/02
Law & Order: Undercovered

Synopsis: The murder at the center of this episode is that of an insurance executive. The killer may well be the father of a nine-year-old leukemia victim, to whom the victim denied funding for special treatment. In their efforts to prosecute the case, A.D.A.'s McCoy (Sam Waterston) and Southerlyn (Elisabeth Rohm Read More

2002
30 Days

Actors: Ben Shenkman, Arija Bareikis, Alexander Chaplin, Bradley White, Thomas McCarthy

Synopsis: Writer-director Aaron Harnick debuts with this quirky romantic comedy set in New York. Jordan (Ben Shenkman) works in his father's upscale liquor shop. Over the years, he has honed both his wine-tasting skills and a deep fear of commitment. One day, he goes on a blind date with Sarah (Arija Bareikis Read More

9/15/00
Joe Gould's Secret

Actors: Ian Holm, Marc Alan Austen, Stanley Tucci, Andrei Belgrader, Ted Blumberg, Patricia Clarkson, Hope Davis, Harry Bugin, Nell Campbell, Steve Martin

Synopsis: This historical comedy-drama is based on the true story of Joe Gould, a bohemian eccentric who was a fixture in New York's Greenwich Village from his arrival in 1916 to his death in 1964. Gould, who claimed to be a graduate of Harvard, would cadge drinks and subsist on catsup as he regaled patrons Read More

4/7/00
Chasing Sleep

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Emily Bergl, Gil Bellows, Zach Grenier, Julian McMahon

Synopsis: Ed Saxon (Jeff Daniels) is an English professor of some repute whose life is thrown into serious chaos when his wife, Eve, fails to return home one day. After a sleepless night, Ed phones the police, who find no trace of Eve, save her abandoned car. Later Ed, by now exhausted and disheveled, is Read More

2000
Law & Order: Refuge, Part 1

Synopsis: In this first episode of a two-part story, a shootout between the police and a motorist leads to the uncovering of a mob hit -- in which both victim and assassin were killed. The crime was the handiwork of the Russian mafia and the only witness is traumatized ten-year-old Billy Woodson (Cameron Bowen Read More

1999
Law & Order: Refuge, Part 2

Synopsis: In this conclusion of a two-part story, the detectives and the lawyers vow to avenge the slaying of a woman whose son witnessed a Russian Mafia hit. Relentlessly digging up every possible lead, the forces of law and order endeavor to expose a widespread money-laundering scheme -- and to prevent Read More

1999
Pi

Actors: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart, Stephen Pearlman

Synopsis: Darren Aronofsky scripted and made his directorial debut with this experimental feature with mathematical plot threads hinting at science-fictional elements. In NYC's Chinatown, recluse math genius Max (Sean Gullette) believes "everything can be understood in terms of numbers," and he looks for a Read More

7/10/98
Eraser

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Caan, Vanessa Williams, James Coburn, Robert Pastorelli

Synopsis: Top-notch action sequences and exciting stunt work highlight this fast-moving thriller. John Kruger (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a top agent in the U.S. Marshalls' Witness Protection Program; it's his job to "erase" the pasts of Federal witnesses under his watch and deal with anyone who tries to Read More

1996
Law & Order: Born Bad

Synopsis: The D.A.'s office charges teenager Chris Pollit (Wil Horneff) as an adult in a murder case. The teen's lawyer, Helen Brolin (Maria Tucci), aims for a not-guilty plea by claiming that her client is "violently predisposed." Her argument: The killer was born with an extra Y chromosome, and thus is Read More

1993