Ben Barnes attended two schools:  Homefield Preparatory School (Sutton) and King's College School (Wimbledon). After high school, he continued his education at Kingston University in Kingston-upon-Thames. In 2004 he successfully graduated from University with a bachelor’s degree in English literature.

Apart from this, Benjamin attended The National Youth Music Theatre, where he studied different arts, including music. He loved music very much and from his childhood he dreamed about a big stage. He joined the music group “Hyrise” as a singer and soon after he was chosen to represent UK in the Eurovision Song Contest with their song “Leading Me On”. Though they did not win, Ben Barnes got another reward – he has been caught on eye by TV producers and this changed his life drastically.

In 2006 he played in British medical soap opera Doctors as Craig Unwin and in The History Boys, where his character was attractive man Dakin. His first film was Stardust (2007), where he played Russian bully Cobakka. The film was very successful on box office, gained 135.6 million dollars.

The role, that boosted up his popularity came unexpectedly. In 2007 he received an invitation to play the main character “Prince Caspian” in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. The film received critical acclaims and was extremely popular (almost 420 million dollars of box office). Ben coped with his role brilliantly, and he immediately involved in preparations for the second part of this film, titled The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010), where he played the same character. For portraying Caspian X, Ben Barnes was nominated on National Movie Awards in the category Best Performance – Male, Teen Choice Awards in the category Choice Movie Breakout Male, MTV Movie Awards as Breakthrough Performance Male and in 2010 National Movie Awards in the category Performance of the Year.

Besides this hit movie, Ben Barnes played in such films as: Easy Virtue (2008), Dorian Gray (2009), Locked In (2010), The Words (2012), By the Gun (2014) and other. Now he is working upon his new role in science fiction TV series Westworld.

In one of his interviews, he mentioned, that he is an active user of tumblr, instagram, twitter and Facebook. So if you would like to see his posts or pictures, go visit his pages on those web sites and you will always be aware of the latest news in his life.

Ben Barnes still has not been married, though he has a long list of beautiful girlfriends, who he was dating with. Along the other his girlfriends, on the internet you can find the information about his affairs with Amanda Seyfried, Felicity Jones, Felicity Jones and Tamsin Egerton. He is very handsome and rich (his net worth is about two million dollars), so he is a very attractive for women. He knows that and does not hurry to tie the knot.