Ben Mingay

Ben Mingay (born 1979) is an Australian actor and singer, perhaps best known for having played Buzz Graham in the series Packed to the Rafters and Rob Duffy in Wonderland. He played the role of Billy in the stage version of Dirty Dancing in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Mingay together with Michael Falzon, Luke Kennedy, and Matt Lee appeared in the Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2014. In 2015, Mingay joined the cast of soap opera Home and Away in the recurring role of Trystan Powell.

Background Growing up in Elermore Vale, New South Wales on the outskirts of Newcastle, Mingay went to boarding school, The Armidale School, from age 12. . He later completed his HSC at Shore in 1997. His mother suggested he do the school play to occupy his spare time. He thought it was for losers, but agreed to do it for her. That same year he starred as Jim Beatson on the medical series All Saints.

In 2013, Mingay scored his first major role on television when he joined the main cast of the sixth season of Australian series Packed to the Rafters. He played the young electrician Fergus "Buzz" Graham, father of Jackson Graham (Narek Arman) and employee of Dave Rafter (Erik Thomson). Mingay's Graham enters into a relationship with Emma Mackey (Zoe Cramond) until the series finale on 2 July of that year. That same year, Mingay joined the main cast of Wonderland in the role of Rob Duffy.

Mingay performed in the new cabaret act Swing on This at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival on 7 June 2014 with a cast that included Luke Kennedy, Michael Falzon, and Matt Lee. Festival artistic director, and singer in her own right, Kate Ceberano appeared as a special guest. Following Adelaide Cabaret Festival, they performed as the headline act at both the official black tie launch of the refurbished Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre on 25 July and at the community concert the next evening, again playing to a full house.

Mingay joined the cast of Home and Away as Trystan Powell in 2015.

Mingay has performed at several concerts including the charity benefit Pants Off for Beyond Blue, a concert involving several performers each singing in their underwear.

His professional opera debut came in 2024 in the role of Papageno in an English-language production Mozart's The Magic Flute for Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House. He had sung in this opera before in a school production in 2000.

In 2019, Mingay appeared in the ABC series Frayed. Mingay would reprise his role from the first season in the second series of the show, which aired in 2021. In February 2021, Mingay was announced as part of the cast for the first series of Foxtel legal drama The Twelve.

Training

2011

2015 The Phantom of the Opera

Bright Lights and Big Dreams Adelaide Symphony Orchestra La Cage Aux Folles George The Concert Hall 2023 Sweeney Todd Sweeney Todd Sydney Opera House 2024

2025 The Pirates of Penzance The Pirate King West Australian Opera His Majesty's Theatre Filmography Television

Film

Awards and nominations ARIA Music Awards The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony held by the Australian Recording Industry Association. They commenced in 1987. 2005 Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage (with Deone Zanotto) Best Original Cast or Show Album