Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 14, 1980
Place of Birth
Clifton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
Credits
82 titles
Ben Whishaw
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
Filmography
Elden Ring
Images: Making "Peter Hujar's Day"
Self
Peter Hujar's Day
Peter Hujar
The Gay Collection | Volume I | Presented by Shortz!
Black Doves
Sam Young
Paddington in Peru
Paddington Brown (voice)
An A to Z of Paddington
Self
Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing
Narrator
In Heat
Jon
Limonov: The Ballad
Eduard 'Eddie' Limonov
Bad Behaviour
Elon Bello
Passages
Martin
Good Boy
Danny
Women Talking
August
Ungentle
Narrator (voice)
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self
Paddington Meets The Queen
Paddington (voice)
This Is Going to Hurt
Adam Kay
Designing Bond
Self
No Time to Die
Q
Miss Fortunate
Humourless Man
Surge
Joseph
The Adventures of Paddington
Paddington (voice)
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Uriah Heep
Little Joe
Chris
O Holy Ghost
Charmaine
Mary Poppins Returns
Michael Banks
Palo Santo
Palo Santo Hologram
A Very English Scandal
Norman Scott
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
Marcus Brutus
His Picture In Little
Paddington 2
Paddington Brown (voice)
Family Happiness
The Brother
Queers.
Perce
A Hologram for the King
Dave
In the Heart of the Sea
Herman Melville
The Danish Girl
Henrik
London Spy
Danny
Spectre
Q
Suffragette
Sonny Watts
The Lobster
Limping Man
Unity
Narrator (voice)
Paddington
Paddington (voice)
Days and Nights
Eric
Lilting
Richard
The Muse
Edward
Fargo
Patrick 'Rabbi' Milligan
Beat
Man
The Zero Theorem
Doctor 3
Teenage
British Boy (voice)