actor born june english actor best known role british soap opera coronation street brought greater manchester thompson screen debut appeared film shortly turning appeared children comedy programme stupid thompson rose prominence cast teenager coronation street longstanding series involved storylines dealt varying topics including family life death coming age addition career actor thompson amateur musician member indie group largely influenced established manchester bands youth early career brought town bury england trained acting age bury years thompson educated nearby later reflected enjoyed time school interacted teachers went lesson wasn interesting thompson starred alongside directed film eddie movie man named eddie lynch social services branded innocent game children taken context years later shortly entering thompson successfully auditioned feature bbc children comedy programme stupid hopeful selected appear prior stupid launch channel thompson commented started going auditions nervous gets easier coronation street thompson auditioned role long standing british soap opera coronation street screen friends played thompson knew producers coronation street impressed thompson asked audition different role try successful given month contract option extend year cast boy moves fictional setting coronation street mother played actress hear band member brothers paul reported thompson spend days camera given set tutor help complete school work day filming july thompson grew watching coronation street day life room famous people added completely different imagined nice going prior airing connor family arrival famous street august thompson commented ryan story lines character bad good series producer said time held extensive casting sessions family right energy sean rob ben certainly joy watch screen continued century coronation street family hope viewers excited year coronation street thompson acted scenes involved character stealing car wall local discovering mother fiancée having gay affair male best friend impressed thompson acting ability producers series contract extended reflecting year soap thompson said strange year lot things happened absolutely brilliant filming wanted fantastic enjoy added favourite story lines far graffiti stealing car enjoyed filming opposite plays thompson filmed screen kiss said experience bizarre hadn knew line kiss knew time time said shaking continued mean don nervous stage like bizarre things got nervous screen romance controversial new year eve storyline featured characters attempting losing discovered ryan adoptive mother confirmed ryan recast played thompson chose return private life interests thompson keen interest music played guitar years takes instrument work means occupying takes actor group formed fellow high performed venues band set list includes material songs home town influences oasis james stone roses thompson expressed interest getting music industry later life attended bury left year filming commitments ben studied manchester went work filmography
Ben Thompson (actor)