Actor / Director Profile

Benjamin Busch was born in 1968 in Manhattan and grew up in rural central New York state. He graduated from Vassar College in 1991 with a major in Studio Art and soon thereafter accepted a commission in the United States Marine Corps. He served four years as an active duty infantry officer and then from 1996 to the present in the Selected Marine Reserve. In 1997 he turned to acting and had small appearances in "Michael Hayes, US Attorney", "Party of Five", "Homicide", and "The West Wing". He deployed to Iraq in 2003 as the Commanding Officer of Delta Company, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion and then again in 2005 with a Civil Affairs unit in Ar Ramadi. The images in his exhibits of photographs, "The Art in War" (2003) and "Occupation" (2005), are from these two deployments. In 2004, he began playing the role of Officer Anthony Colicchio on the HBO series "The Wire", now in its final season, and has just wrapped the new HBO series, "Generation Kill" in Africa. His first film as a writer/director, "Sympathetic Details", is due for release in February of 2008 along with a new exhibit of photographs, "Abstract Matter", and his final exhibit of new images from Iraq, "Patrols". He lives in Michigan with his wife, Tracy, and their three year old daughter, Alexandra.