Ben Whishaw
Acting • Born 1980-10-14
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.
Filmography
79 credits
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Movie • 2006
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille
I'm Not There
Movie • 2007
Arthur
Layer Cake
Movie • 2004
Sidney
Brideshead Revisited
Movie • 2008
Sebastian Flyte
The Trench
Movie • 1999
Pte. James Deamis
Enduring Love
Movie • 2004
Spud
Passages
Movie • 2023
Martin
Bright Star
Movie • 2009
John Keats
Skyfall
Movie • 2012
Q
The Tempest
Movie • 2010
Ariel
Stoned
Movie • 2005
Keith Richards
The Escort
Movie • 1999
Jay
Good Boy
Movie • 2023
Danny
Cloud Atlas
Movie • 2012
Cabin Boy / Robert Frobisher / Store Clerk / Georgette / Tribesman
Miss Fortunate
Movie • 2021
Humourless Man
My Brother Tom
Movie • 2001
Tom
Love Hate
Movie • 2009
Tom
The Zero Theorem
Movie • 2013
Doctor 3
Peter Hujar's Day
Movie • 2025
Peter Hujar
Limonov: The Ballad
Movie • 2024
Eduard 'Eddie' Limonov
Baby
Movie • 2000
Little Joe
In the Heart of the Sea
Movie • 2015
Herman Melville
Spectre
Movie • 2015
Q
Teenage
Movie • 2013
British Boy (voice)
Days and Nights
Movie • 2014
Eric
Lilting
Movie • 2014
Richard
Suffragette
Movie • 2015
Sonny Watts
Bad Behaviour
Movie • 2023
Elon Bello
Ungentle
Movie • 2022
Narrator (voice)
Paddington
Movie • 2014
Paddington (voice)
The Lobster
Movie • 2015
Limping Man
Designing Bond
Movie • 2021
Self
The Muse
Movie • 2014
Edward
Unity
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice)
The Danish Girl
Movie • 2015
Henrik
Paddington 2
Movie • 2017
Paddington Brown (voice)
Beat
Movie • 2013
Man
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Movie • 2004
Bruno
Spiritual Rampage
Movie • 2003
Eric
The Booze Cruise
Movie • 2003
Daniel
A Hologram for the King
Movie • 2016
Dave
Mary Poppins Returns
Movie • 2018
Michael Banks
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
Movie • 2018
Marcus Brutus
No Time to Die
Movie • 2021
Q
All Signs of Death
Movie
Web
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Movie • 2019
Uriah Heep
His Picture In Little
Movie • 2018
Palo Santo
Movie • 2018
Palo Santo Hologram
Family Happiness
Movie • 2017
The Brother
Little Joe
Movie • 2019
Chris
Paddington in Peru
Movie • 2024
Paddington Brown (voice)
Surge
Movie • 2020
Joseph
O Holy Ghost
Movie • 2019
Charmaine
Women Talking
Movie • 2022
August
In Heat
Movie • 2024
Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing
Movie • 2024
Narrator
An A to Z of Paddington
Movie • 2024
Self
Paddington Meets The Queen
Movie • 2022
Paddington (voice)
Diamond Shitter
Movie
Nigel
77 Beds
Movie • 2003
Ishmael
The Gay Collection | Volume I | Presented by Shortz!
Movie • 2025
Criminal Justice
TV • 2008
Ben Coulter
Other People's Children
TV • 2000
Sully
The Hour
TV • 2011
Freddie Lyon
Playhouse Presents
TV • 2012
Ezra
London Spy
TV • 2015
Danny
This Is Going to Hurt
TV • 2022
Adam Kay
Queers.
TV • 2017
Perce
Black Doves
TV • 2024
Sam Young
A Very English Scandal
TV • 2018
Norman Scott
Bambi
TV • 1948
Self
The Hollow Crown
TV • 2012
King Richard
Fargo
TV • 2014
Patrick 'Rabbi' Milligan
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
The Adventures of Paddington
TV • 2019
Paddington (voice)
Queers.
TV • 2017
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TV • 2022
Self
Nathan Barley
TV • 2005
Pingu
Black Cab
TV • 2000
Ryan