Ben Rosenfield

Ben Rosenfield is an American actor and musician. He is best known for playing Willie Thompson on the fourth and fifth seasons of HBO's period crime drama series Boardwalk Empire (2013–2014). He starred in leading roles in Greetings from Tim Buckley (2012), Affluenza (2014), and 6 Years (2016) as well as supporting roles in Song One (2014), Indignation (2016), Person to Person (2017), and Mickey and the Bear (2019). On television, he portrayed Sam Colby in Twin Peaks: The Return (2017), and played John Schlafly in the Hulu limited series Mrs. America. He also had supporting roles in Netflix docu-series The Family in 2019, and the Amazon Prime comedy series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in 2023. Rosenfeld's first role on the Off-Broadway stage was as Max in the adaptation of the Ingmar Bergman film Through a Glass Darkly at the Atlantic Theater Company. He has since acted in Jennifer Haley's science fiction play The Nether (2015), and Simon Stephens' family drama On the Shore of the Wide World (2017). He currently stars in Itamar Moses' political comedy-drama The Ally (2024) at The Public Theater.