20. Ben Woolf was a teacher turned actor
Ben Woolf, who played the character ‘Meep’ in season 4, was actually a full time pre-school teacher before his acting career.
Ben Woolf and his two A.H.S characters
The Colorado born teacher also appeared in two episodes of season 1 as he played ‘Thadeus Montgomery’, a.k.a ‘Infantata’ in Murder House.
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Ben Woolf also had small roles in Leigh Whannell’s ‘Insidious’, and the TV show ‘Dexter’, where he was a stuntman.
This is not the only link between Insidious and A.H.S
Although never a main character, Woolf’s performances as ‘Meep’ and ‘Infantata’ were widely applauded and in 2015 he was awarded in Moscow for his services to the horror genre.
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Sadly, Ben Wolf recently passed away when he was struck in head by the wing mirror of an SUV whilst crossing the street in L.A. in 2015.
R.I.P Ben
At the age of 34, Ben was taken from us too young and will be sorely missed by American Horror Story fans across the world.
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