Personal Info
Birth date
1968-09-26 (56 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also known as
Бен Шенкман
Ben Shenkman
Biography
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.
Filmography
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
7.936
Overview:
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.Grey's Anatomy
8.221
Overview:
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.Law & Order
7.4
Overview:
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.FBI
7.9
Overview:
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.Curb Your Enthusiasm
8.019
Overview:
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.Billions
7.742
Overview:
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.The Good Fight
7.6
Overview:
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.Burn Notice
7.5
Overview:
A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.Private Practice
7.5
Overview:
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.Drop Dead Diva
7.756
Overview:
A shallow model suddenly dies in an accident only to find her soul resurfacing in the body of a brilliant, plus-sized attorney.Damages
7.466
Overview:
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.Royal Pains
6.747
Overview:
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.Ed
7.7
Overview:
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.The Night Of
8
Overview:
After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.For The People
7.297
Overview:
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.Blue Valentine
6.948
Overview:
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.20 Questions
10
Overview:
A young State Department employee accidentally stumbles upon conspiracy to undermine the United States.Requiem for a Dream
8.015
Overview:
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.Law & Order: Trial by Jury
8.1
Overview:
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.Eraser
6.076
Overview:
A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.Just Like Heaven
6.956
Overview:
Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Masterson, 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.Pi
7.108
Overview:
A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.The Siege
6.3
Overview:
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.The Trial of the Chicago 7
7.678
Overview:
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.Angels in America
7.66
Overview:
Follow six New Yorkers whose lives intersect amidst the AIDS crisis and the rapidly changing socio-political climate of 1985.Must Love Dogs
5.93
Overview:
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.Quiz Show
7.3
Overview:
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.Made in Jersey
6.8
Overview:
A young working-class woman who uses her street smarts to compete among her pedigreed Manhattan colleagues at a prestigious New York law firm.Acting
TBAAfter as Unknown
TBA20 Questions (1 Episode) as Unknown
2025The Auction as Unknown
2024Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point as Lenny
2022The Conspiracy as Unknown
2022Forty Winks as Daryl Camacho
2020The Trial of the Chicago 7 as Leonard Weinglass
2018FBI (2, 2 Episode) as ADIC Reynolds, FBI ADIC Reynolds
2018For The People (20 Episodes) as Roger Gunn
2017The Good Fight (3 Episodes) as Ben-Baruch
2016The Night Of (3 Episodes) as Sergeant Klein
2016Billions (8, 2 Episode) as Ira Schirmer, Unknown
2013Breathe In as Sheldon
2013Concussion as Graeme
2012Made in Jersey (1 Episode) as Andrew Treaster
2011The Paul Reiser Show (4 Episodes) as Jonathan
2011The Key Man as Martin
2010Blue Valentine as Dr. Feinberg
2009Brief Interviews with Hideous Men as Subject #14
2009Solitary Man as Peter Hartofilias
2009Drop Dead Diva (5 Episodes) as Dr. Bill Kendall
2009Royal Pains (54 Episodes) as Jeremiah Sacani
2008Stephen King's "N" (13 Episodes) as Dr. John Bonsaint
2008Canterbury's Law (6 Episodes) as Russell Krauss
2007Breakfast with Scot as Sam
2007Private Practice (1 Episode) as Rob Harmon
2007Then She Found Me as Dr. Freddy Epner
2007Damages (13 Episodes) as Curtis Gates
2007Burn Notice (4 Episodes) as Tom Strickler
2006Americanese as Steve
2006Love Monkey (1 Episode) as Scott Tucker
2006Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner as Self
2005Just Like Heaven as Dr. Brett Rushton
2005Must Love Dogs as Charlie
2005Grey's Anatomy (3 Episodes) as Rob Harmon
2005Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2 Episodes) as Irv Kressel
2003Angels in America (6 Episodes) as Louis Ironson / The Angel Oceania
2002Stella Shorts 1998-2002 as Hans
2002People I Know as Radio Announcer (voice)
2002Roger Dodger as Donovan
2002Personal Velocity as Max
2001Chasing Sleep as Officer Stewart
2000Curb Your Enthusiasm (3 Episodes) as Roger Swindell
2000Ed (2, 1 Episode) as Frank Carr, Andy Bednarik
2000Requiem for a Dream as Dr. Spencer
2000Jesus' Son as Tom
2000Joe Gould's Secret as David
2000Table One as Scott
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 Episode) as Max Knaack
199930 Days as Jordan Trainer
1999Thick as Thieves as Veterinarian
1998The Siege as Kaplan, INS
1998Pi as Lenny Meyer
1997Camp Stories as Yehudah
1996Eraser as Reporter
1994Quiz Show as Childress
1990Law & Order (1, 6 Episode) as Mark Ferris, Nick Margolis