Ben Whishaw
Acting
1980-10-14 · 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).
Filmography
TheatersElden Ring
2028 · Movie
TheatersBruvvas
2026 · Movie
Images: Making "Peter Hujar's Day"
2026 · Movie
Peter Hujar's Day
2025 · Movie
The Gay Collection | Volume I | Presented by Shortz!
2025 · Movie
Black Doves
2024 · Series
Paddington in Peru
2024 · Movie
An A to Z of Paddington
2024 · Movie
Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing
2024 · Movie
In Heat
2024 · Movie
Limonov: The Ballad
2024 · Movie
Bad Behaviour
2023 · Movie
Passages
2023 · Movie
Good Boy
2023 · Movie
Women Talking
2022 · Movie
Ungentle
2022 · Movie
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022 · Series
Paddington Meets The Queen
2022 · Movie
This Is Going to Hurt
2022 · Series
Designing Bond
2021 · Movie
No Time to Die
2021 · Movie
Miss Fortunate
2021 · Movie
Surge
2020 · Movie
The Adventures of Paddington
2019 · Series
The Personal History of David Copperfield
2019 · Movie
Little Joe
2019 · Movie
O Holy Ghost
2019 · Movie
Mary Poppins Returns
2018 · Movie
Palo Santo
2018 · Movie
A Very English Scandal
2018 · Series
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
2018 · Movie
His Picture In Little
2018 · Movie
Paddington 2
2017 · Movie
Family Happiness
2017 · Movie
Queers.
2017 · Series
A Hologram for the King
2016 · Movie
In the Heart of the Sea
2015 · Movie
The Danish Girl
2015 · Movie
London Spy
2015 · Series
Spectre
2015 · Movie
Suffragette
2015 · Movie
The Lobster
2015 · Movie
Unity
2015 · Movie
Paddington
2014 · Movie
Days and Nights
2014 · Movie
Lilting
2014 · Movie
The Muse
2014 · Movie
Fargo
2014 · Series
Beat
2013 · Movie
The Zero Theorem
2013 · Movie
Teenage
2013 · Movie
Cloud Atlas
2012 · Movie
Skyfall
2012 · Movie
The Hollow Crown
2012 · Series
Playhouse Presents
2012 · Series
The Hour
2011 · Series
The Tempest
2010 · Movie
Bright Star
2009 · Movie
Love Hate
2009 · Movie
The International
2009 · Movie
Brideshead Revisited
2008 · Movie
Criminal Justice
2008 · Series
I'm Not There
2007 · Movie
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Series
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006 · Movie
Stoned
2005 · Movie
Nathan Barley
2005 · Series
Enduring Love
2004 · Movie
Layer Cake
2004 · Movie
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
2004 · Movie
77 Beds
2003 · Movie
The Booze Cruise
2003 · Movie
Spiritual Rampage
2003 · Movie
My Brother Tom
2001 · Movie
Other People's Children
2000 · Series
Baby
2000 · Movie
Black Cab
2000 · Series
The Escort
1999 · Movie
The Trench
1999 · Movie
Bambi
1948 · Series
High End
Movie
All Signs of Death
Movie