Darkness and Bones: 10 curiosities about Ben Barnes aka General Kirigan

Ok, don’t lie, we’ve all fallen in love with Ben Barnes aka it Generale Kirigan watching Darkness and Bones.

I mean:

Ben Barnes, at the registry office Benjamin Thomas Barnes is an English actor born in 1981. And recently he has gained a lot of new fans thanks to his role in Darkness and Bones. Would you like to know more? Here it is 5 curiosities about Ben Barnes that you surely do not know but that you absolutely must recover:

1- His father is a psychiatrist and his mother is a therapist. He is English, the mother was born in South Africa, and is of Jewish origin.

2- He studied Dramatic Art and English Literature at Kingston University of London, where he graduated with honors in 2004.

3- He can play drums and piano and was formerly a member of the boyband Hyrise. In 2004 they even participated in theEurovision Song Contest with the song Leading Me On.

4- Among his most famous roles there is certainly the part of Caspian born The Chronicles of Narnia e Dorian Gray in the film of the same name.

5- Tried to buy the painting used in Dorian Gray to give it to his mother, but the portrait was not available for sale. It is now in a museum.

6- He wore hair extensions for the role of the prince Caspian.

7- He was among the candidates for the role of Edward Cullen in Twilight.

8- He appeared in the video Sofa Song gods The Kooks.

9- It looks like at the moment Ben both single while dating the actress in the past Tamsin Egerton and connects it Meganne Young.

10- Initially he had turned down the role of Kirigan because the character had appeared to him a bit too secluded and secondary, but then he was convinced – fortunately – by the producers of the series.

Now tell me: after all these curiosities, don’t you love her even more?