Benjamin Cooke (born 17 March 1974 in Leeds) is an English stunt performer and actor. Cooke started his career in the 1990s as a stunt performer. At first, he acted in numerous television series and movies. For the TV series Hercules, he worked as a stunt performer from 1995 until 1998. In 1999, he was involved for the first time as an actor for an episode in the same series. In 2001, he first starred in the New Zealand production of Snakeskin. In that same year, he contributed as a stunt perf