Ben Shenkman

Ben Shenkman

Born: September 26, 1968
in New York City, New York, USA
Benjamin Shenkman is an American actor, known for his roles in the comedy-drama series Royal Pains and the acclaimed HBO miniseries Angels in America, which earned him both Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations. 

Movies for Ben Shenkman...

Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
Title: Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
Character: Lenny
Released: May 17, 2024
Type: Movie
A rambunctious extended family descends upon their small Long Island hometown for the holidays where hijinks, generational squabbles, and family traditions ensue.
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The Conspiracy
Title: The Conspiracy
Released: November 17, 2022
Type: Movie
It’s an insidious, centuries-old conspiracy theory that continues to rear its ugly head today: Jews have a secret international plot to control the world. How do such preposterous ideas get started, and why do they flourish? Filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin orchestrates bold, striking animation and exceptionally talented voice artists to walk us through almost 250 years of anti-Semitic ideology, focusing on how times of uncertainty give rise to anxieties in marginalized populations, and how three Jewish family dynasties came to bear the brunt of irrational scapegoating.
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Forty Winks
Title: Forty Winks
Character: Daryl Camacho
Released: March 19, 2022
Type: Movie
Forty Winks follows Fabio Berker, struggling Hypnotist in New York City, as he is blackmailed into being the world's first hypnotist hit man by a mysterious woman who finds out his degree is fake.
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The Trial of the Chicago 7
Title: The Trial of the Chicago 7
Character: Leonard Weinglass
Released: September 25, 2020
Type: Movie
What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.
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Title: FBI
Character: ADIC Reynolds
Released: September 25, 2018
Type: TV
The New York office of the FBI brings to bear all their talents, intellect and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep their city and the country safe.
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Title: For The People
Character: Roger Gunn
Released: March 13, 2018
Type: TV
Brand new lawyers work for both the defense and the prosecution as they handle the most high profile and high stakes cases in the country – all as their personal lives intersect.
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Title: The Good Fight
Character: Ben-Baruch
Released: February 19, 2017
Type: TV
Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell, while simultaneously wiping out her mentor and godmother Diane Lockhart's savings. Forced out of her law firm, now called "Lockhart, Deckler, Gussman, Lee, Lyman, Gilbert, Lurie, Kagan, Tannebaum & Associates", they join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago's preeminent law firms.
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Title: Billions
Character: Ira Schirmer
Released: January 17, 2016
Type: TV
A complex drama about power politics in the world of New York high finance. Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power and influence to outmaneuver the other. The stakes are in the billions in this timely, provocative series.
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Title: Billions
Released: January 17, 2016
Type: TV
A complex drama about power politics in the world of New York high finance. Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power and influence to outmaneuver the other. The stakes are in the billions in this timely, provocative series.
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Breathe In
Title: Breathe In
Character: Sheldon
Released: January 18, 2013
Type: Movie
When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.
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Concussion
Title: Concussion
Character: Graeme
Released: January 17, 2013
Type: Movie
After a blow to the head, Abby decides she can't do it anymore. Her life just can't be only about the house, the kids and the wife. She needs more: she needs to be Eleanor.
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Title: The Paul Reiser Show
Character: Jonathan
Released: April 14, 2011
Type: TV
The Paul Reiser Show is an American television series that aired on NBC. In May 2010, NBC announced that it had green-lit the series for the 2010–11 television season, with the half-hour comedy expected to premiere as a midseason replacement. The series premiered on April 14, 2011, at 8:30 pm. Due to extremely low ratings, the program was canceled on April 22, 2011, after airing only two episodes.
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The Key Man
Title: The Key Man
Character: Martin
Released: February 18, 2011
Type: Movie
An insurance salesman gets mixed up with two gangsters in effort to make more money and provide for his family, but things don't go as he planned.
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Blue Valentine
Title: Blue Valentine
Character: Dr. Feinberg
Released: December 26, 2010
Type: Movie
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Title: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Character: Subject #14
Released: September 25, 2009
Type: Movie
After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East Coast university is left looking for answers as to what went wrong.
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Solitary Man
Title: Solitary Man
Character: Peter Hartofilias
Released: September 7, 2009
Type: Movie
A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.
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Title: Drop Dead Diva
Character: Dr. Bill Kendall
Released: July 12, 2009
Type: TV
A shallow model suddenly dies in an accident only to find her soul resurfacing in the body of a brilliant, plus-sized attorney.
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Title: Royal Pains
Released: June 4, 2009
Type: TV
A young E.R. doctor who, after being wrongly blamed for a patient's death, moves to the Hamptons and becomes the reluctant "doctor for hire" to the rich and famous. When the attractive administrator of the local hospital asks him to treat the town's less fortunate, he finds himself walking the line between doing well for himself and doing good for others.
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Title: Royal Pains
Character: Dr. Jeremiah Sacani
Released: June 4, 2009
Type: TV
A young E.R. doctor who, after being wrongly blamed for a patient's death, moves to the Hamptons and becomes the reluctant "doctor for hire" to the rich and famous. When the attractive administrator of the local hospital asks him to treat the town's less fortunate, he finds himself walking the line between doing well for himself and doing good for others.
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Title: Stephen King's "N"
Character: Dr. John Bonsaint
Released: July 28, 2008
Type: TV
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Title: Canterbury's Law
Character: Russell Krauss
Released: March 10, 2008
Type: TV
Elizabeth Canterbury is a force of nature. An attorney on the rise, she puts her career on the line to take on risky and unpopular cases, even when they take a toll on her personal life. Elizabeth and her law professor husband, Matt Furey, haunted by the unsolved disappearance of their young son, struggle to distance themselves from the tragedy and put their relationship back together. But those goals become elusive whenever Elizabeth's work provides a stark reminder of the justice absent in their own lives.
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Breakfast with Scot
Title: Breakfast with Scot
Character: Sam
Released: November 16, 2007
Type: Movie
The lives of Eric, an ex hockey player, and his partner Sam, are thrown into turmoil when they are forced to take in Scot, a flamboyant 11-year-old.
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Title: Private Practice
Character: Rob Harmon
Released: September 26, 2007
Type: TV
Having left behind Seattle Grace Hospital, renowned surgeon Addison Forbes Montgomery moves to Los Angeles for sunnier weather and happier possibilities. She reunites with her friends from medical school, joining them at their chic, co-op, Oceanside Wellness Center in Santa Monica.
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Then She Found Me
Title: Then She Found Me
Character: Dr. Freddy Epner
Released: September 7, 2007
Type: Movie
A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father of one of her students.
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Title: Damages
Character: Curtis Gates
Released: July 24, 2007
Type: TV
Damages is an American legal thriller television series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kessler. The plot revolves around the brilliant, ruthless lawyer Patty Hewes and her protégée, recent law school graduate Ellen Parsons. Each season features a major case that Hewes and her firm take on, while also examining a chapter of the complicated relationship between Ellen and Patty. The first two seasons center around the law firm Hewes & Associates. Later seasons center more on Patty and Ellen's relationship as Ellen begins to distance herself from Hewes & Associates and begins an independent career.
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Title: Burn Notice
Character: Tom Strickler
Released: June 28, 2007
Type: TV
A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.
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Americanese
Title: Americanese
Character: Steve
Released: March 15, 2006
Type: Movie
Long after their breakup, Chinese American Raymond Ding and Amerasian Aurora Crane struggle to let go. Torn apart by mismatched ideals, meddling friends, and the complexities of racial identities, they find other suitable mates but cannot stay away from each other
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Title: Love Monkey
Released: January 17, 2006
Type: TV
Love Monkey is a television series created by Michael Rauch and based on a book of the same name, by Kyle Smith. It starred Tom Cavanagh as a 30-something, single, record executive who navigated the tumultuous and highly amusing waters of work and dating in New York City. Its first episode aired on January 17, 2006 on CBS, attracting an audience of about 8.6 million viewers. By its third episode on February 7, viewership was down to 6.2 million, and CBS pulled it from the schedule, with no plans for its return. At the end of March, VH1 announced plans to re-broadcast the three episodes broadcast on CBS and air the five remaining unaired episodes. The last episode aired on May 16, 2006 on VH1. CBS has one episode available free for online viewing via its new Innertube website and intends to make the other 7 episodes available for viewing there as well. As it was bought for syndication by VH1, it now airs on MuchMoreMusic in Canada. In the summers of 2009 and 2010, the series was shown on the Universal HD cable network. It was a co-production of Paramount Television and Sony Pictures Television.
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Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Title: Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Character: Self
Released: January 15, 2006
Type: Movie
Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his play Homebody/Kabul and running through 2004, as he worked on John Kerry's presidential campaign, got married to Mark Harris, worked with Maurice Sendak, and opened the Broadway musical Caroline, or Change.
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Just Like Heaven
Title: Just Like Heaven
Character: Dr. Brett Rushton
Released: September 16, 2005
Type: Movie
Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Martinson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at will, David thinks she's a ghost, while Elizabeth is convinced she's alive.
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Must Love Dogs
Title: Must Love Dogs
Character: Charlie
Released: July 21, 2005
Type: Movie
Sarah Nolan is a newly divorced woman cautiously rediscovering romance with the enthusiastic but often misguided help of her well-meaning family. As she braves a series of hilarious disastrous mismatches and first dates, Sarah begins to trust her own instincts again and learns that, no matter what, it's never a good idea to give up on love.
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Title: Grey's Anatomy
Character: Rob Harmon
Released: March 27, 2005
Type: TV
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
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Title: Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Character: Irv Kressel
Released: March 3, 2005
Type: TV
The inner workings of the judicial system, beginning with the arraignment, and continuing through the prosecutors' complicated process of building a case, investigating leads and preparing witnesses for trial.
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Title: Angels in America
Character: Louis Ironson / The Angel Oceania
Released: December 7, 2003
Type: TV
In 1985, two couples' relationships dissolve amidst the backdrop of Reagan era politics, the spreading AIDS epidemic, and a rapidly changing social and political climate.
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People I Know
Title: People I Know
Character: Radio Announcer (voice)
Released: November 21, 2002
Type: Movie
A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.
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Roger Dodger
Title: Roger Dodger
Character: Donovan
Released: May 9, 2002
Type: Movie
A smooth-talking ad executive attributes his remarkable success with women to his ability to manipulate their emotions from the moment he first meets them. When his teenage nephew drops in for a visit, he soon learns that his approach isn't as foolproof as he thought when he attempts to teach the boy how to pick up women.
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Personal Velocity
Title: Personal Velocity
Character: Max
Released: January 12, 2002
Type: Movie
In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.
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Chasing Sleep
Title: Chasing Sleep
Character: Officer Stewart
Released: May 16, 2001
Type: Movie
A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.
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Title: Curb Your Enthusiasm
Character: Roger Swindell
Released: October 15, 2000
Type: TV
The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.
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Title: Ed
Character: Andy Bednarik
Released: October 8, 2000
Type: TV
After his wife leaves him and he's fired from his job at a high-profile New York city law firm, Ed Stevens moves back to his small hometown of Stuckeyville where he buys the local bowling alley and attempts to win the heart of his high school crush.
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Title: Ed
Character: Frank Carr
Released: October 8, 2000
Type: TV
After his wife leaves him and he's fired from his job at a high-profile New York city law firm, Ed Stevens moves back to his small hometown of Stuckeyville where he buys the local bowling alley and attempts to win the heart of his high school crush.
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Requiem for a Dream
Title: Requiem for a Dream
Character: Dr. Spencer
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: Movie
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
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Jesus' Son
Title: Jesus' Son
Character: Tom
Released: June 16, 2000
Type: Movie
A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
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Joe Gould's Secret
Title: Joe Gould's Secret
Character: David
Released: January 21, 2000
Type: Movie
Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull," bringing Gould some celebrity and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he's often crashed. Gould's touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat lead to a breakup, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould's death and Mitchell's unveiling of the secret.
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Table One
Title: Table One
Character: Scott
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Four friends (Stephen Baldwin, Michael Rooker, Luis Guzman and David Herman) who are misfits in the New York City social scene have trouble meeting available women. They come up with the idea of opening a trendy restaurant -- funding their new venture with the help of a local gangster -- in hopes of attracting a large female clientele. It's one comedy situation after another as they stumble through their various misadventures.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Max Knaack
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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30 Days
Title: 30 Days
Character: Jordan Trainer
Released: September 15, 1999
Type: Movie
Jordan meets Sarah on a blind date. His family announces they're moving, and his best friend is getting a quickie wedding. Jordan panics and breaks up with Sarah by asking her to marry him.
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Thick as Thieves
Title: Thick as Thieves
Character: Veterinarian
Released: January 28, 1999
Type: Movie
Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first, a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own privacy, listening to old jazz records and caring for his ailing dog, Wally. The other is a local gangster with a taste for the finer life, who decides to eliminate the competition. This ignites a war between the two men and their aides. An angry mob boss and a female police officer try to sort the mess before things get too out of hand.
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The Siege
Title: The Siege
Character: Kaplan, INS
Released: November 6, 1998
Type: Movie
The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent and his team attempt to locate and decommission the enemy cells, but must also deal with an Army General gone rogue and a female CIA agent of uncertain loyalties.
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Pi
Title: Pi
Character: Lenny Meyer
Released: July 10, 1998
Type: Movie
A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.
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Camp Stories
Title: Camp Stories
Character: Yehudah
Released: April 18, 1997
Type: Movie
A man named David Katz remembers the formative summer he spent as a kid in an Orthodox Jewish summer camp.
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Eraser
Title: Eraser
Character: Reporter
Released: June 21, 1996
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshall John Kruger erases the identities of people enrolled in the Witness Protection Program. His current assignment is to protect Lee Cullen, who's uncovered evidence that the weapons manufacturer she works for has been selling to terrorist groups. When Kruger discovers that there's a corrupt agent within the program, he must guard his own life while trying to protect Lee's.
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Quiz Show
Title: Quiz Show
Character: Childress
Released: August 25, 1994
Type: Movie
Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-One.' However, when the show introduces the highly skilled contestant Charles Van Doren to replace Stempel, it compels Stempel to let out his frustrations and call out the show as rigged. Lawyer Richard Goodwin steps in and attempts to uncover the orchestrated deception behind the scenes.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Nick Margolis
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Mark Ferris
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: 20 Questions
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV