Benjamin John Aldington Nealon OBE (born 29 December 1966 in Exeter, Devon) is best known for playing 2nd Lt/Lt/Capt Jeremy Forsythe in the ITV award-winning series Soldier Soldier. Nealon was attracted to a career in acting at the age of 7 when he saw Peter O'Toole's performance in Lawrence of Arabia but his part in Soldier Soldier was his second television role, having appeared in an episode of Between the Lines the previous year. He has since been in TV series such as Bugs, Casualty, The Bill, I Shouldn't Be Alive, Doctors and EastEnders.