en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_(Animal_Farm)
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In the 2025 film, he is depicted as a female and voiced by Kathleen Turner.
Benjamin is not described as female in the 2025/2026 film adaptation. A Motion Picture Association interview about the film explicitly identifies Benjamin as a male role voiced by Kathleen Turner.
Full reasoning
A May 6, 2026 interview in The Credits (published by the Motion Picture Association) quotes the film’s casting director, Margery Simkin, describing Benjamin as one of the adaptation’s “male roles”: “we have male roles like Benjamin … who is voiced by Kathleen Turner.” That directly contradicts the article’s claim that Benjamin is depicted as female in the film.
The same interview then discusses the adaptation’s gender-related changes and specifically points to Frieda Pilkington and Snowball as examples, not Benjamin. So while Kathleen Turner does voice Benjamin, the available industry source identifies Benjamin as male, not female.
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- Casting the Revolution: Margery Simkin on Finding an All-Star Barnyard for “Animal Farm”
“He is so open-minded and you see that – we have male roles like Benjamin [a cynical donkey skeptical of all political -isms], who is voiced by Kathleen Turner.”