Benjamin James Ayres is an actor best known for his roles as Dr. Zach Miller of the CTV series Saving Hope.

He also recurred on the Gemini Award-winning HBO Canada series Less Than Kind for which he has been nominated for a Canadian Screen Award.

His first series regular role was Casper Jesperson (aka “Cancer Cowboy”), the chain-smoking sex addict who is morbidly obsessed with death, in the critically acclaimed cult hit CBC Television series JPod, based on the Douglas Coupland novel of the same title.