Ben Shields

Ben Shields was raised in eastern Kansas, finally landing in suburban Kansas City - on the Kansas side. His mother is a critical care nurse, and his father is an attorney. He is a great, great grandson of an undertaker who created one of the first mortuaries in Kansas in 1890, and a grandfather was a decorated WWII pilot. He is a distant nephew of the legendary Betsy Ross. Shields began acting at the age of eleven, when he was cast as an understudy in "Oliver" at Kansas City's Starlight Theatre. He went on to perform in every major production in school, then went on to college and received a theatre degree from Northwestern University.