Ben Whishaw

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…

Filmography

• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer as Jean-Baptiste Grenouille
• Skyfall as Q
• Suffragette as Sonny Watts
• Paddington as Paddington (voice)
• The Lobster as Limping Man
• The Danish Girl as Henrik
• Paddington 2 as Paddington Brown (voice)
• No Time to Die as Q
• I'm Not There as Arthur
• Layer Cake as Sidney

TV

• This Is Going to Hurt as Adam Kay
• Fargo as Patrick 'Rabbi' Milligan
• Criminal Justice as Ben Coulter
• The Hour as Freddie Lyon
• Playhouse Presents as Ezra
• London Spy as Danny
• Queers. as Perce
• Black Doves as Sam Young
• A Very English Scandal as Norman Scott
• Bambi as Self