Ben Rosenfield

Ben Rosenfield is an American actor and musician, best known for playing Willie Thompson on the fourth and fifth seasons of HBO's period crime drama series Boardwalk Empire (2013–2014). His first role was in the Off-Broadway stage adaptation of the Ingmar Bergman film Through a Glass Darkly. He has starred as Tim Buckley in the bio-pic Greetings from Tim Buckley. Rosenfield played Henry Ellis in the musical drama Song One (2014), starred as Fisher Miller in the teen drama Affluenza (2014), and Bertram Flusser in the period drama Indignation. In 2016 Ben starred as Dan Mercer the romantic drama 6 Years. In 2017, he portrayed Sam Colby in the third season of Twin Peaks. In 2017 Rosenfield also starred in the dramatic comedy Person to Person. He played Aron Church in 2019 film Mickey and the Bear. In 2019 Rosenfield also appeared in the Netflix documentary series The Family. In 2020 he was cast opposite Cate Blanchett in the limited series Mrs. America. Early life Rosenfield was raised in Montclair, New Jersey. His father, Stephen Rosenfield, is a teacher of stand-up comedy and the founder of the American Comedy Institute in New York City. His mother, Kate Redway Rosenfield, is an actress and teaches improv. Rosenfield has one younger brother, Nate. He is Jewish, and has said that he "used to be rather religious" despite his family's atheism. His ancestors were from Ukraine, Romania, Denmark, and Scotland. Rosenfield attended Glenfield Middle School where, in eighth grade, he portrayed Tevye in a production of Fiddler on the Roof. He then attended and graduated from Montclair High School in 2010. Career In 2011, Rosenfield made his stage debut in the Off-Broadway production of the play Through a Glass Darkly, alongside Carey Mulligan and Chris Sarandon. In August of the same year, it was announced that Rosenfield had been cast to co-star as Tim Buckley in the drama film Greetings from Tim Buckley (2012). The film also featured Penn Badgley and Imogen Poots in main roles. The following year, he starred as Tommie Scheel in the documentary film Teenage, and joined the cast of Boardwalk Empire in the recurring role of Willie Thompson, Eli's (Shea Whigham) son. For the fifth and final season, he was promoted to a series regular. Rosenfield then co-starred in the films Jamesy Boy (2014) and Song One (2014), before having his first leading role in the film Affluenza (2014), which also starred Grant Gustin and Nicola Peltz.