Ben Whishaw

Born: 1980-10-14 in Clifton, Bedfordshire, England, UK

Known For: Acting

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Whishaw, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2025

Peter Hujar's Day as Peter Hujar

2024

Paddington in Peru as Paddington Brown (voice)
Black Doves as Sam Young
Limonov: The Ballad as Eduard 'Eddie' Limonov
In Heat
An A to Z of Paddington as Self
Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing as Narrator

2023

Good Boy as Danny
Bad Behaviour as Elon Bello
Passages as Martin

2022

Women Talking as August
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self
This Is Going to Hurt as Adam Kay
Ungentle as Narrator (voice)
Paddington Meets The Queen as Paddington (voice)

2021

No Time to Die as Q
Miss Fortunate as Humourless Man
Designing Bond as Self

2020

Surge as Joseph

2019

Little Joe as Chris
The Adventures of Paddington as Paddington (voice)
The Personal History of David Copperfield as Uriah Heep
O Holy Ghost as Charmaine

2018

Mary Poppins Returns as Michael Banks
A Very English Scandal as Norman Scott
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar as Marcus Brutus
His Picture In Little
Palo Santo as Palo Santo Hologram

2017

Paddington 2 as Paddington Brown (voice)
Family Happiness as The Brother
Queers. as Perce

2016

A Hologram for the King as Dave

2015

Spectre as Q
Unity as Narrator (voice)
The Lobster as Limping Man
The Danish Girl as Henrik
In the Heart of the Sea as Herman Melville
Suffragette as Sonny Watts
London Spy as Danny

2014

Fargo as Patrick 'Rabbi' Milligan
Lilting as Richard
Paddington as Paddington (voice)
Days and Nights as Eric
The Muse as Edward

2013

Teenage as British Boy (voice)
The Zero Theorem as Doctor 3
Beat as Man

2012

Skyfall as Q
Cloud Atlas as Cabin Boy / Robert Frobisher / Store Clerk / Georgette / Tribesman
The Hollow Crown as King Richard
Playhouse Presents as Ezra

2011

The Hour as Freddie Lyon

2010

The Tempest as Ariel

2009

Bright Star as John Keats
Love Hate as Tom

2008

Brideshead Revisited as Sebastian Flyte
Criminal Justice as Ben Coulter

2007

The Graham Norton Show as Self
I'm Not There as Arthur

2006

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer as Jean-Baptiste Grenouille

2005

Nathan Barley as Pingu
Stoned as Keith Richards

2000

Baby as Little Joe
Other People's Children as Sully

1999

The Trench as Pte. James Deamis
The Escort as Jay

1948

Bambi as Self