Ben Folds

Ben Folds

music department, actor, composer

Ben Folds was born on Sep 12, 1966 in USA. Ben Folds's big-screen debut came with 100 Girls directed by Michael Davis in 2000. Ben Folds is known for You're the Worst directed by Stephen Falk, Chris Geere stars as Jimmy Shive-Overly and Aya Cash as Gretchen Cutler. The most recent award Ben Folds achieved is Music City Walk Of Fame. The upcoming new movie Ben Folds plays is Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie which will be released on May 05, 2017.

Ben Folds is widely regarded as one of the major music influencers of our generation.He's created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, and collaborative records with artists from Sara Bareilles and Regina Spektor, to William Shatner. His last album was a blend of pop songs and his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra that soared to #1 on both the Billboard classical and classical crossover charts.For over a decade he's performed with some of the world's greatest symphony orchestras, and in 2017 was named as the first ever Artistic Advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center.Folds continues to perform with symphonies and also recently returned to solo touring around the globe reminiscent of his earliest years, delivering a high energy rock performance using the intimacy of just a piano.He is also no stranger to television, having been featured for five seasons as a judge on NBC's critically-acclaimed a capella show "The Sing Off." He continues to appear in cameo roles on cable and network TV shows from "Billions," to "You're The Worst" and "Community," and recently composed the soundtrack for the Netflix show "Handsome."An avid photographer, Folds is a member of the prestigious Sony Artisans of Imagery, completed an assignment in 2017 as a photo editor for National Geographic, and was recently featured in a mini-documentary by the Kennedy Center's Digital Project on his photographic work.An outspoken champion for arts education and music therapy funding in our nation's public schools, in 2016 Ben held the distinction as the only artist to appear at both national political conventions advocating for arts education, and has served for over five years as an active member of the distinguished Artist Committee of Americans For The Arts.

  • Birthday

    Sep 12, 1966
  • Place of Birth

    Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
  • Also known

    Benjamin Scott Folds

Known For

Awards

1 wins & 0 nominations

Music City Walk Of Fame
2018
Artist
Winner - Walk of Fame Star Guitar