Benjamin Evan Ainsworth

While growing up in the village of Lund, Ainsworth attended the Northern Lights Drama Theatre School in Hull.^[2] His younger sister Erin Ainsworth also acts.^[3]

At the age of ten, Ainsworth made his television debut in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale in 2018,^[4] and in the same year performed in a production of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert on board the Norwegian Epic cruise liner.^[1]

Two years later, Ainsworth debuted in his first major production as Miles in the Netflix series The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), a continuation of the series The Haunting of Hill House.^[5] Ainsworth starred in the Disney film Flora & Ulysses, which was released on Disney+ in 2021.^[6][7] In 2022, he voiced the title character in the live-action Disney film Pinocchio.^[8] Also that year, Ainsworth began portraying Mark Critch in the semi-autobiographical Canadian comedy series Son of a Critch,^[9] for which he received a Best Leading Performance in a Comedy Series nomination at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards.^[10]

In 2025, Ainsworth starred in Everything's Going to Be Great.^[11] That same year, it was announced that he would star as Link in an upcoming film adaptation of The Legend of Zelda.^[12] In 2026, Ainsworth portrayed Daeron Targaryen in the third season of House of the Dragon.^[13]