British actor Ben Hardy first rose to prominence when he essayed the role of Peter Beale in the long-running soap opera EastEnders, from 2013 to 2015. Subsequently, he made his feature film debut with X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), where he essayed the role of the superhero Warren Worthington III a.k.a. Archangel.

Other notable acting credits include the romantic period drama Mary Shelley (2017), the biographical drama Only the Brave (2017) and the BBC TV series The Woman in White. In 2018, Hardy portrayed Roger Taylor - the renowned English musician and former drummer of the rock band Queen - in the biographical drama Bohemian Rhapsody. Hardy`s career has continued to expand with his role in the action film 6 Underground (2019) and his appearance in The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025).