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Name: Ben Browder
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Date of Birth:
December 11, 1962
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Place of Birth:
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Mini-bio:
Robert Benedic Browder was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He attended Myers Park High
School in Charlotte, North Carolina, earned a BaS in psychology at Furman
University, and then went on to study dra
...( read more)ma at Central School of Speech and Drama in
London, England, where he met his wife, Francesca Buller. They married in 1989. He and Buller have two
children. As
of 2002, he resides in Australia, where the SciFi television series "Farscape" was filmed, which he starred in for four years. After several appearances on stage, including traditional Shakespeare,
Browder garnered a few minor appearances in feature films, including a small part as
a rookie captain in Memphis Belle and the role of a short-lived boyfriend in A Kiss
Before Dying, with Sean Young and Matt Dillon. He was first widely exposed to the
American and Canadian television viewing audience as the recurring character of Sam
on the series "Party of Five. In 1999, Jim Henson productions teamed with the SciFi
channel to produce "Farscape", where Browder was cast to play the main character,
American astronaut John Crichton. He now stars as Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell on
"Stargate SG-1" as of season 9.