Ben Foster

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Ben Foster (born October 29, 1980) is a Daytime Emmy- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American actor. He is known for his roles in the teen movies Liberty Heights and Get Over It, as well as the action films Hostage (2005), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and 3:10 To Yuma (2007). <p>Foster was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Stephen Foster, a restauranteur; he has a younger brother, Jon, who is also an actor. Foster's parents, whom he has described as "free-spirited, Vietnam-protesting hippies", relocated to the small town of Fairfield, Iowa four years after he was born, after their Boston house was burglarized while they were present. Foster's family was one of the few Jewish families in the town. Foster's parents were associated with the Transcendental Meditation movement, and Foster attended the private elementary school operated by the movement, which was known as the Maharishi School for the Age of Enlightenment. <p>At the age of sixteen, Foster dropped out of high school and moved...