Ben Price

Ben Price (born 1 January 1972) is a British actor, best known for playing the third incarnation of Nick Tilsley in the ITV soap opera, Coronation Street. He had previously played the role of Conrad Gates in the British television series' Footballers' Wives.

 Price grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne where he attended Gosforth East Middle School and Gosforth High School before taking acting classes at The Live Theatre. He then attended The Drama Centre and graduated from The Central School of Speech and Drama in 1996, in the same class as Sarah Manners and Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

 He started his career at the Manchester Royal Exchange and went on to appear at the Bush in London,the Gate Dublin and Sheffield Crucible amongst others.  After starring in Wire in the Blood, he found fame when he starred as Conrad Gates, the captain of Earl's Park football team, in the British television series Footballers' Wives. Price said he loved the role, driving around in expensive cars, living in mansions and working with a good

crew, but he was not so keen on the large number of occasions that his posterior was shown.  Nonetheless, the prolific nudity and onscreen sexual exploits that his character undertook greatly increased Ben's public profile, and he garnered in particular a large gay fan base through the role. His character was later killed off in the fourth season finale. After leaving the series he did some theater work.

He co-stars in the horror film Blood Trails, which won the audience award for best feature at the Dead by Dawn International Horror Film Festival 2006 in Edinburgh.

He starred in Casualty as Corporate Director Nathan Spencer between 2005 and 2007, and was recently voted one of the ten actors most likely to succeed in Hollywood by "Stage and Screen" magazine. Price appeared on the July 2006 cover of Out magazine.

In 2009 he appeared in the third season of Showtime's hit show The Tudors, playing the martyr John Lambert.

Price joined Coronation Street as Nick Tilsley in 2009. He began filming on Monday 19 October 2009 and was seen on screen for the first time on 21 December 2009.