nick robinson played ben parish in the 5th wave.
nick robinson played ben parish in the 5th wave.
who played ben parish in the 5th wave?
nick robinson
in late 2013, robinson was cast in "jurassic world", which was released in 2015. he co-starred with ty simpkins, playing a pair of brothers who visit their aunt played by bryce dallas howard at jurassic world. he played ben parish in the film adaptation of the novel "the 5th wave", which was released in january 2016. these roles made him unavailable for multiple episodes of the final season of "melissa & joey", but he returned for the final three episodes.
nick robinson (american actor)
the book opens in the midst of the fourth wave and follows cassie's quest to find her brother, sammy, after he is taken by u.s. army soldiers. cassie is shot by an other sniper, a ""silencer"", from the woods on her trek, and is later rescued by evan walker, who nurses her back to health and agrees to help her find her brother. meanwhile, sammy arrives at wright-patterson afb, and it is revealed over the course of the story that they are recruiting (truly, abducting) children into an army, telling them they are the last hope for fighting back against the others. sammy is placed in squad 53 befriends squadmate ben parish, who is coincidentally cassie's long-lost crush from high school. after the two set out, cassie and evan are attacked by a squad from wright-patterson, and, after seeing how easily evan dispatches them, cassie finds out that evan killed the silencer who shot her. he then helped her because he had fallen in love and couldn't bring himself to kill her. the two, though uneasily, coordinate a plan to extract sammy then begin executing it. while deployed, ben and his squadmate ringer start to piece together their true purposes and learn that wright-patterson is actually run by the others. it is revealed that the others are masquerading as a resistance force, abducting and training the children into a fighting force, which they will deploy as the fifth wave to end humanity. ben and ringer decide to bolt with the rest of squad 53, but ben insists on going back for sammy, who was left on base due to his age.
the 5th wave (series)