
Ben Whishaw
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Peter Hujar's Day as Peter Hujar
- 2024 · Black Doves as Sam Young
- 2024 · Paddington in Peru as Paddington Brown (voice)
- 2024 · An A to Z of Paddington as Self
- 2024 · Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing as Narrator
- 2024 · In Heat as
- 2024 · Limonov: The Ballad as Eduard 'Eddie' Limonov
- 2023 · Bad Behaviour as Elon Bello
- 2023 · Passages as Martin
- 2023 · Good Boy as Danny
- 2022 · Women Talking as August
- 2022 · Ungentle as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self
- 2022 · Paddington Meets The Queen as Paddington (voice)
- 2022 · This Is Going to Hurt as Adam Kay
- 2021 · Designing Bond as Self
- 2021 · No Time to Die as Q
- 2021 · Miss Fortunate as Humourless Man
- 2020 · Surge as Joseph
- 2019 · The Adventures of Paddington as Paddington (voice)
- 2019 · The Personal History of David Copperfield as Uriah Heep
- 2019 · Little Joe as Chris
- 2019 · O Holy Ghost as Charmaine
- 2018 · Mary Poppins Returns as Michael Banks
- 2018 · Palo Santo as Palo Santo Hologram
- 2018 · A Very English Scandal as Norman Scott
- 2018 · National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar as Marcus Brutus
- 2018 · His Picture In Little as
- 2017 · Paddington 2 as Paddington Brown (voice)
- 2017 · Family Happiness as The Brother
- 2017 · Queers. as Perce
- 2017 · Queers. as
- 2016 · A Hologram for the King as Dave
- 2015 · In the Heart of the Sea as Herman Melville
- 2015 · The Danish Girl as Henrik
- 2015 · London Spy as Danny
- 2015 · Spectre as Q
- 2015 · Suffragette as Sonny Watts
- 2015 · The Lobster as Limping Man
- 2015 · Unity as Narrator (voice)
- 2014 · Paddington as Paddington (voice)
- 2014 · Days and Nights as Eric
- 2014 · Lilting as Richard
- 2014 · The Muse as Edward
- 2014 · Fargo as Patrick 'Rabbi' Milligan
- 2013 · Beat as Man
- 2013 · The Zero Theorem as Doctor 3
- 2013 · Teenage as British Boy (voice)
- 2012 · Cloud Atlas as Cabin Boy / Robert Frobisher / Store Clerk / Georgette / Tribesman
- 2012 · Skyfall as Q
- 2012 · The Hollow Crown as King Richard
- 2012 · Playhouse Presents as Ezra
- 2011 · The Hour as Freddie Lyon
- 2010 · The Tempest as Ariel
- 2009 · Bright Star as John Keats
- 2009 · Love Hate as Tom
- 2008 · Brideshead Revisited as Sebastian Flyte
- 2008 · Criminal Justice as Ben Coulter
- 2007 · I'm Not There as Arthur
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · Perfume: The Story of a Murderer as Jean-Baptiste Grenouille
- 2005 · Stoned as Keith Richards
- 2005 · Nathan Barley as Pingu
- 2004 · Enduring Love as Spud
- 2004 · Layer Cake as Sidney
- 2004 · Ready When You Are, Mr McGill as Bruno
- 2003 · 77 Beds as Ishmael
- 2003 · The Booze Cruise as Daniel
- 2003 · Spiritual Rampage as Eric
- 2001 · My Brother Tom as Tom
- 2000 · Other People's Children as Sully
- 2000 · Baby as Little Joe
- 1999 · The Escort as Jay
- 1999 · The Trench as Pte. James Deamis
- 1948 · Bambi-Verleihung as Self
- Future · Untitled Paddington 4 as Paddington Brown (voice)
- Future · All Signs of Death as Web
- Future · Diamond Shitter as Nigel
- Future · The Man I Love as