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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 14, 1980
Place of Birth
Clifton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- 벤 위쇼
- Benjamin John Whishaw
- Μπεν Γουίσοου
- بن ویشاو
Ben Whishaw
3.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
3.5
Peter Hujar
Peter Hujar's Day
2025
7.1
Sam Young
Black Doves
2024
6.8
Paddington Brown (voice)
Paddington in Peru
2024
0.0
Self
An A to Z of Paddington
2024
0.0
Narrator
Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing
2024
0.0
In Heat
2024
6.4
Eduard 'Eddie' Limonov
Limonov: The Ballad
2024
4.8
Elon Bello
Bad Behaviour
2023
6.3
Martin
Passages
2023
7.2
Danny
Good Boy
2023
Credits
Peter Hujar's Day
as Peter Hujar
2025
3.5
Black Doves
as Sam Young
2024
7.1
Paddington in Peru
as Paddington Brown (voice)
2024
6.8
An A to Z of Paddington
as Self
2024
0.0
Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing
as Narrator
2024
0.0
In Heat
2024
0.0
Limonov: The Ballad
as Eduard 'Eddie' Limonov
2024
6.4
Bad Behaviour
as Elon Bello
2023
4.8
Passages
as Martin
2023
6.3
Good Boy
as Danny
2023
7.2
Women Talking
as August
2022
6.9
Ungentle
as Narrator (voice)
2022
6.3
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
as Self
2022
2.7
Paddington Meets The Queen
as Paddington (voice)
2022
8.0
This Is Going to Hurt
as Adam Kay
2022
7.6
🎬
Designing Bond
as Self
2021
5.5
No Time to Die
as Q
2021
7.4
Miss Fortunate
as Humourless Man
2021
0.0
Surge
as Joseph
2020
5.4
The Adventures of Paddington
as Paddington (voice)
2019
7.8
The Personal History of David Copperfield
as Uriah Heep
2019
6.4
Little Joe
as Chris
2019
5.7
O Holy Ghost
as Charmaine
2019
0.0
Mary Poppins Returns
as Michael Banks
2018
6.5
Palo Santo
as Palo Santo Hologram
2018
7.3
A Very English Scandal
as Norman Scott
2018
7.0
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
as Marcus Brutus
2018
7.5
His Picture In Little
2018
0.0
Paddington 2
as Paddington Brown (voice)
2017
7.5
Family Happiness
as The Brother
2017
0.0
Queers.
as Perce
2017
5.6
Queers.
2017
5.6
A Hologram for the King
as Dave
2016
5.8
In the Heart of the Sea
as Herman Melville
2015
6.8
The Danish Girl
as Henrik
2015
7.6
London Spy
as Danny
2015
7.0
Spectre
as Q
2015
6.6
Suffragette
as Sonny Watts
2015
7.2
The Lobster
as Limping Man
2015
7.0
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
2015
7.5
Paddington
as Paddington (voice)
2014
7.1
Days and Nights
as Eric
2014
4.5
Lilting
as Richard
2014
6.9
The Muse
as Edward
2014
8.2
Fargo
as Patrick 'Rabbi' Milligan
2014
8.3
Beat
as Man
2013
7.0
The Zero Theorem
as Doctor 3
2013
6.1
Teenage
as British Boy (voice)
2013
6.2
Cloud Atlas
as Cabin Boy / Robert Frobisher / Store Clerk / Georgette / Tribesman
2012
6.9
Skyfall
as Q
2012
7.3
The Hollow Crown
as King Richard
2012
7.4
Playhouse Presents
as Ezra
2012
6.0
The Hour
as Freddie Lyon
2011
7.5
The Tempest
as Ariel
2010
5.3
Bright Star
as John Keats
2009
6.6
Love Hate
as Tom
2009
8.0
Brideshead Revisited
as Sebastian Flyte
2008
6.3
Criminal Justice
as Ben Coulter
2008
7.6
I'm Not There
as Arthur
2007
6.5
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
as Jean-Baptiste Grenouille
2006
7.4
Stoned
as Keith Richards
2005
5.1
Nathan Barley
as Pingu
2005
7.2
Enduring Love
as Spud
2004
5.7
Layer Cake
as Sidney
2004
6.9
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
as Bruno
2004
7.3
77 Beds
as Ishmael
2003
8.0
The Booze Cruise
as Daniel
2003
7.3
🎬
Spiritual Rampage
as Eric
2003
0.0
My Brother Tom
as Tom
2001
5.7
🎬
Other People's Children
as Sully
2000
0.0
Baby
as Little Joe
2000
6.1
Black Cab
as Ryan
2000
0.0
The Escort
as Jay
1999
5.2
The Trench
as Pte. James Deamis
1999
5.4
Bambi
as Self
1948
9.0
🎬
Diamond Shitter
as Nigel
N/A
0.0
🎬
All Signs of Death
as Web
N/A
0.0