Name
Ben Whishaw
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1980-10-14 (46 years old)
Place of Birth
Clifton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
Biography
Benjamin John Whishaw (born 14 October 1980) is an English actor. He has received various accolades, including three British Academy Television Awards, two Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe.
Beginning his career in the 2000s, he played the title role in a 2004 production of the play Hamlet. Television roles followed this in Nathan Barley (2005), Criminal Justice (2008) and The Hour (2011–12); and film roles in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), I'm Not There (2007), Brideshead Revisited (2008), and Bright Star (2009).
In 2012, Whishaw played the title role in a BBC Two adaptation of Richard II, for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. The same year, he appeared as Q in the James Bond film Skyfall (2012), going on to reprise the role in Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021). He has voiced Paddington Bear in several projects since Paddington (2014). His other film roles in the 2010s include Cloud Atlas (2012), The Lobster (2015), Suffragette (2015), The Danish Girl (2015), and Mary Poppins Returns (2018).
Whishaw had a leading role in London Spy (2015). For his portrayal of Norman Scott in the miniseries A Very English Scandal (2018), he won a BAFTA, a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor. In 2020, he had a leading role in the fourth season of the black comedy drama Fargo. He has since starred in the BBC medical drama series This Is Going to Hurt (2022), the short film Good Boy (2023), and the Netflix spy thriller series Black Doves (2024).
Known For
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- 2006 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer as Jean-Baptiste Grenouille
- 2007 I'm Not There as Arthur
- 2004 Layer Cake as Sidney
- 2008 Brideshead Revisited as Sebastian Flyte
- 1999 The Trench as Pte. James Deamis
- 2004 Enduring Love as Spud
- 2023 Passages as Martin
- 2009 Bright Star as John Keats
- 2012 Skyfall as Q
- 2010 The Tempest as Ariel
- 2005 Stoned as Keith Richards
- 1999 The Escort as Jay
- 2023 Good Boy as Danny
- 2012 Cloud Atlas as Cabin Boy / Robert Frobisher / Store Clerk / Georgette / Tribesman
- 2021 Miss Fortunate as Humourless Man
- 2001 My Brother Tom as Tom
- 2009 Love Hate as Tom
- 2013 The Zero Theorem as Doctor 3
- 2025 Peter Hujar's Day as Peter Hujar
- 2024 Limonov: The Ballad as Eduard 'Eddie' Limonov
- 2000 Baby as Little Joe
- 2015 In the Heart of the Sea as Herman Melville
- 2015 Spectre as Q
- 2013 Teenage as British Boy (voice)
- 2014 Days and Nights as Eric
- 2014 Lilting as Richard
- 2015 Suffragette as Sonny Watts
- 2023 Bad Behaviour as Elon Bello
- 2022 Ungentle as Narrator (voice)
- 2014 Paddington as Paddington (voice)
- 2015 The Lobster as Limping Man
- 2021 Designing Bond as Self
- 2014 The Muse as Edward
- 2015 Unity as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 The Danish Girl as Henrik
- 2017 Paddington 2 as Paddington Brown (voice)
- 2013 Beat as Man
- 2004 Ready When You Are, Mr McGill as Bruno
- 2003 Spiritual Rampage as Eric
- 2003 The Booze Cruise as Daniel
- 2016 A Hologram for the King as Dave
- 2018 Mary Poppins Returns as Michael Banks
- 2018 National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar as Marcus Brutus
- 2021 No Time to Die as Q
- Soon All Signs of Death as Web
- 2019 The Personal History of David Copperfield as Uriah Heep
- 2018 His Picture In Little
- 2018 Palo Santo as Palo Santo Hologram
- 2017 Family Happiness as The Brother
- 2019 Little Joe as Chris
- 2024 Paddington in Peru as Paddington Brown (voice)
- 2020 Surge as Joseph
- 2019 O Holy Ghost as Charmaine
- 2022 Women Talking as August
- 2024 In Heat as Jon
- 2024 Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing as Narrator
- 2024 An A to Z of Paddington as Self
- 2022 Paddington Meets The Queen as Paddington (voice)
- Soon High End as Nigel
- 2003 77 Beds as Ishmael
- 2025 The Gay Collection | Volume I | Presented by Shortz!
- 2028 Elden Ring
- 2009 The International as Renee
- Soon Bruvvas
- 2026 Images: Making "Peter Hujar's Day" as Self
- 2008 Criminal Justice ( 5 episodes ) as Ben Coulter
- 2000 Other People's Children ( 4 episodes ) as Sully
- 2011 The Hour ( 12 episodes ) as Freddie Lyon
- 2015 London Spy ( 5 episodes ) as Danny
- 2022 This Is Going to Hurt ( 7 episodes ) as Adam Kay
- 2017 Queers. ( 1 episode ) as Perce
- 2024 Black Doves ( 6 episodes ) as Sam Young
- 2018 A Very English Scandal ( 3 episodes ) as Norman Scott
- 1948 Bambi ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2012 The Hollow Crown ( 1 episode ) as King Richard
- 2014 Fargo ( 11 episodes ) as Patrick 'Rabbi' Milligan
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2019 The Adventures of Paddington ( 154 episodes ) as Paddington (voice)
- 2017 Queers. ( 8 episodes )
- 2022 Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2005 Nathan Barley ( 5 episodes ) as Pingu
- 2000 Black Cab ( 1 episode ) as Ryan
- 2012 Playhouse Presents ( 1 episode ) as Ezra
