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