Ben Matthias

Ben Matthias is the main protagonist in the 2023 live-action Disney feature film Haunted Mansion. He is a widowed CERN astrophysicist and tour guide who gets drawn into the mystery of the haunted Gracey mansion.
He is portrayed by .
==Background==
===Personality===
===Physical Appearance===
Ben is a middle-aged African-American man with brown eyes and black hair. He is mostly seen wearing tank tops underneath unbuttoned dress shirts, complete with a pair of black jeans and shoes. He wears his deceased wife's wedding ring around his neck and wears a small pair of gold earrings. He sometimes a gray fedora and pair of round sunglasses when going out in public.
==Role in the film==
==Gallery==
==Trivia==
*Ben is LaKeith Stanfield's first Disney role, discounting the by extension production Atlanta on FX.
*Ben is the second protagonist from an adaptation of The Haunted Mansion to be African American, the first being Jim Evers.
*Ben's surname "Matthias" means "Gift of God".
*Ben is similar to Mighty Thor from the Marvel Cinematic Universe as both were astrophysicists trying to prove the existence of something unnatural. The only difference is Jane was trying to prove the existence of different realms while Ben was focused on proving the existence of ghosts.
*It said that Ben is a middle-age man but his actor is really in his 30s.
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