Ben Foster (born October 29, 1980) is a Daytime Emmy- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American actor. He is known for his roles in the teen movies Liberty Heights and Get Over It, as well as the action films Hostage (2005), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Alpha Dog (2007) and 10 to Yuma (2007).

Biography

Early life

Foster was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Stephen Foster, a restaurateur. He has a younger brother, Jon, who is also an actor. Foster's parents, whom he has described as "free-spirited, Vietnam-protesting hippies", relocated to the small town of Fairfield, Iowa four years after he was born, and after their Boston house was burglarized while they were present. Foster is Jewish; his paternal grandmother emigrated from Russia to escape Pogroms.

Career

At the age of sixteen, Foster dropped out of high school and moved to Los Angeles. In 1996-97, he appeared in the television series Flash Forward. In the next three years, Foster had small roles in two made-for-TV movies and in two episodes of the series Freaks and Geeks. In 2001, he acted in Get Over It. Foster also had a recurring role as Russell Corwin (22 episodes) in the HBO Original Series, Six Feet Under. After he made and The Punisher, Foster also appeared in Hostage with Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak and Michelle Horn. In 2006, Foster appeared in X-Men: The Last Stand as the comic-book hero Angel/Warren Worthington III. A notable role was in the crime thriller Alpha Dog, in which he played Jake Mazursky, a drug addict. Foster added glaucoma drops to his eyes during filming in order to simulate the appearance of a drug abuser. In 2007, he played cold-blooded killer Charlie Prince in the critically acclaimed 10 to Yuma.

Personal life

According to Gossip, Foster has been dating Zoe Kravitz for over five months, and he took her to the premiere of 3:10 to Yuma. Most recently the two were seen together at LAX on January 4, 2008.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Kounterfeit	Travis
1996	Flash Forward	Tucker James
1998	Breakfast with Einstein	Ryan
	I've Been Waiting for You	Charlie
2000	Freaks and Geeks	Eli
1999	Liberty Heights	Ben Kurtzman
2001	Get Over It	Berke Landers/Lysander
2002	Big Trouble	Matt Arnold
	The Laramie Project	Aaron Kreifels
	Bang, Bang, You're Dead	Trevor Adams
2003	Phone Booth	Big Q	uncredited
	Northfork	Cod
		Eddie
2004	The Punisher	Spacker Dave
2005	The Dead Zone	Darren Foldes
2005	Hostage	Mars Krupcheck
2006	The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things	Fleshy Boy	limited release
	X-Men: The Last Stand	Angel/Warren Worthington III
2007	Alpha Dog	Jake Mazursky
	10 to Yuma	Charlie Prince
	30 Days of Night	The Stranger
2008	Birds of America	Jay
2009	The Messenger	Will Montgomery	post-production
	Pandorum	Bower	filming

References

External links

• Ben Foster at the Internet Movie Database