Ben Masters (born May 6, 1947; Corvallis, Oregon, United States) is an American actor who plays the role of Julian Crane on the television soap opera Passions.
After graduating from the University of Oregon as a theater major, Masters moved to New York and landed a role in the off-Broadway play The Boys In The Band. Ben also had a thirteen month run in Kevin Wade's Key Exchange off-Broadway. An agent and a few Broadway plays -- including Captain ...
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Ben Masters (born May 6, 1947; Corvallis, Oregon, United States) is an American actor who plays the role of Julian Crane on the television soap opera Passions.
After graduating from the University of Oregon as a theater major, Masters moved to New York and landed a role in the off-Broadway play The Boys In The Band. Ben also had a thirteen month run in Kevin Wade's Key Exchange off-Broadway. An agent and a few Broadway plays -- including Captain Brassbound's Conversion with Ingrid Bergman and The Cherry Orchard with Meryl Streep -- soon followed.
After doing TV movies, miniseries and guest appearances, Masters was introduced to daytime dramas when he portrayed Vic Strang on Another World for three months in 1982. Seventeen years later, he signed a contract for NBC's Passions, as the womanizing billionaire Julian Crane. His role on the daytime drama landed him Soap Opera Digest Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in 2001 and 2002 and Outstanding Lead Actor in 2005. After...
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