Ben Whishaw
Known For
Acting
Born
1980-10-14 in 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Whishaw, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
Fargo
as Patrick 'Rabbi' Milligan
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
Bambi
as Self
Spectre
as Q
No Time to Die
as Q
Skyfall
as Q
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
as Self
The Hollow Crown
as King Richard
Paddington in Peru
as Paddington Brown (voice)
The Adventures of Paddington
as Paddington (voice)
Black Doves
as Sam Young
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
as Jean-Baptiste Grenouille
Paddington 2
as Paddington Brown (voice)
Cloud Atlas
as Cabin Boy / Robert Frobisher / Store Clerk / Georgette / Tribesman
The Lobster
as Limping Man
Paddington
as Paddington (voice)
London Spy
as Danny
Lilting
as Richard
The Hour
as Freddie Lyon
Mary Poppins Returns
as Michael Banks