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Ben Whishaw

Ben Whishaw

Birthday: 1980-10-14 | Place of Birth: Clifton, Bedfordshire, England, UK

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Paddington in Peru

as    Paddington Brown (voice)

2025
Peter Hujar's Day

as    Peter Hujar

2024
Limonov: The Ballad

as    Eduard 'Eddie' Limonov

2024
Black Doves

as    Sam Young

2024
Black Doves

as    Sam Young

2024
An A to Z of Paddington

as    Self

2023
Good Boy

as    Danny

2023
Bad Behaviour

as    Elon Bello

2023
Passages

as    Martin

2022
This Is Going to Hurt

as    Adam Kay

2022
Women Talking

as    August

2022
Ungentle

as    Narrator (voice)

2022
Paddington Meets The Queen

as    Paddington

2022
Paddington Meets The Queen

as    Paddington (voice)

2022
Ma'amalade Sandwich, Your Majesty?

as    Paddington Bear (voice)

2021
Miss Fortunate

as    Humourless Man

2021
No Time to Die

as    Q

2021
Being James Bond

as    Q (archive footage)

2020
Surge

as    Joseph

2020
2019
Little Joe

as    Chris

2019
The Adventures of Paddington

as    Paddington (voice)

2018
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar

as    Marcus Brutus

2018
Mary Poppins Returns

as    Michael Banks

2018
A Very English Scandal

as    Norman Scott

2018
Paddington 2

as    Paddington Brown (voice)

2018
Palo Santo

as    Palo Santo Hologram