On August 20, 1981, Ben Barnes was born in London, England. He goes by Benjamin Thomas Barnes. He was born in Britain. In a similar vein, he will be 43 years old and a Leo in 2024.
Tricia Barnes, a relationship therapist, and Thomas Barnes, a professor of psychiatry, were Barnes’ parents at birth. His brother Jack Barnes is younger.
Barnes credits his father’s scientific training, his mother’s Jewish upbringing in South Africa, and his time spent attending a “vaguely Christian” school where he “liked the hymns” as his early inspirations.
Germany and the Netherlands were the birthplaces of his grandparents, respectively. He is therefore English on his father’s side and Dutch, German, and Jewish on his mother’s side.
After attending two independent boys’ schools, Homefield Preparatory School in Sutton and King’s College School in Wimbledon, south-west London, where he majored in drama and English literature and graduated with a BA with honors in 2004.
Barnes attended Kingston University in Kingston-upon-Thames. Among his classmates were comedian Tom Basden and film actor Khalid Abdalla.
