Former EastEnders star Ben Hardy returns to screens in Agatha Christie film which also stars Game of Thrones actor
Ben Hardy played Peter Beale in EastEnders more than 10 years ago (Image: BBC)
Former Peter Beale actor Ben Hardy is set to begin filming an exciting new ‘Hunit’ based on real life events.
Vincent Cassel to star in new film Eleven Missing Days felicity jones and tell the story of Agatha Christie’s The disappearance of real life.
The novelist’s disappearance made national and international headlines during the 1920s, with famous names involved in the search for him, including prominent politicians and fellow writers such as Arthur Conan Doyle. deadline.
There has been much speculation as to what happened to the author, and now, 100 years later, Some details still remain a mystery.
The film’s synopsis reads: “In December 1926, at the height of her fame, Agatha Christie became front page news when she disappeared from her home under strange circumstances.
“In a case of life imitating art, this whodunit traces the investigation behind her disappearance, which strangely resembles an Agatha Christie novel, where everyone in her life became a suspect.”
Ben Hardy will be joined by a stellar cast in the upcoming film, including Nothing star Ryan McParland, Game of Thrones’ Alfie Allen, The Brutalist’s Stacey Martin, He’s Watching You’s Nicole Elizabeth Berger, and The Gorge actor Oliver Trevena.
Currently in pre-production, the picture is to be shot in the UK this summer.
Who did Ben Hardy play in EastEnders?
35 year old rose to fame BBC The soap in 2013 when he arrived in Walford as legendary character Peter Beale. He took over the role from Thomas Law, who played the role between 2006 and 2010, before returning in 2023.
Ben’s version of Peter in ‘Who Killed Lucy Beale?’ The most memorable was due to being caught in. For dating with Saga and Lola Peace (Danielle Harold) before rekindling his romance with Lauren Branning (Jacqueline Jossa).
After discovering that his own brother Bobby (Eliot Carrington) has murdered Lucy, Peter struggles with life in Walford and moves to New Zealand in 2015 to start a new life.
in an interview with IndependentBen said he “struggled for a year with how to run things” before ultimately deciding to leave the show.
“I have so much respect for everyone who worked on that show, I felt like I was being lazy as an actor,” he said. “I realized I was constantly saying, ‘This scene doesn’t work.’
Ben added: “That laziness scared me. I said, ‘I have to get out of here.’
He has since traded in his fruit-and-vegetable market stall for the bright lights of Hollywood and landed a role in the 2016 film X-Men: Apocalypse.
He also played Roger Taylor in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody and played Four in Netflix Film ‘6 Underground’ together Ryan Reynolds.
Ben also played Frank McLeod in the film Pixie, Seb in The Voyagers, Simon in The Girl Before and Trey in Tagged.
Most recently, he starred as Oliver Jones in the Netflix film Love at First Sight (2023) and the 2025 horror film The Conjuring: Last Rites.
EastEnders airs Monday to Thursday on BBC One and iPlayer
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