Ben Whishaw

ActorProducer Oct 14 (age 45) Clifton, Bedfordshire, England, UK 1999–2025 (26 year career)

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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 (20…

Known For

Film

Skyfall

Film

Fargo

Patrick 'Rabbi' Milligan

Film

The Danish Girl

Henrik

Film

No Time to Die

Film

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille

Film

The Lobster

Limping Man

Film

Cloud Atlas

Cabin Boy / Robert Frobisher / Store Clerk / Georgette / Tribesman

Film

Spectre

Filmography

Acting (79)

Movies (61)

Peter Hujar's Day

2025

as Peter Hujar

5.2

The Gay Collection | Volume I | Presented by Shortz!

2025

Paddington in Peru

2024

as Paddington Brown (voice)

6.8

Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing

2024

as Narrator

Limonov: The Ballad

2024

as Eduard 'Eddie' Limonov

6.3

In Heat

2024

An A to Z of Paddington

2024

as Self

Passages

as Martin

Good Boy

as Danny

Bad Behaviour

as Elon Bello

Women Talking

as August

Paddington Meets The Queen

2022

as Paddington (voice)

Ungentle

as Narrator (voice)

No Time to Die

as Q

Miss Fortunate

as Humourless Man

Designing Bond

as Self

Surge

as Joseph

The Personal History of David Copperfield

as Uriah Heep

Little Joe

as Chris

O Holy Ghost

as Charmaine

Mary Poppins Returns

2018

as Michael Banks

6.5

National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar

2018

as Marcus Brutus

7.5

His Picture In Little

2018

Palo Santo

2018

as Palo Santo Hologram

7.3

Paddington 2

2017

as Paddington Brown (voice)

7.5

Family Happiness

2017

as The Brother

A Hologram for the King

as Dave

Spectre

as Q

The Lobster

as Limping Man

In the Heart of the Sea

as Herman Melville

Suffragette

as Sonny Watts

The Danish Girl

as Henrik

Unity

as Narrator (voice)

Paddington

as Paddington (voice)

Lilting

as Richard

Days and Nights

as Eric

The Muse

as Edward

The Zero Theorem

as Doctor 3

Teenage

as British Boy (voice)

Beat

as Man

Skyfall

as Q

Cloud Atlas

as Cabin Boy / Robert Frobisher / Store Clerk / Georgette / Tribesman

The Tempest

as Ariel

Bright Star

as John Keats

Love Hate

as Tom

Brideshead Revisited

as Sebastian Flyte

I'm Not There

as Arthur

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

2006

as Jean-Baptiste Grenouille

Stoned

as Keith Richards

Layer Cake

as Sidney

Enduring Love

as Spud

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

2004

as Bruno

7.3

Spiritual Rampage

2003

as Eric

77 Beds

as Ishmael

The Booze Cruise

as Daniel

My Brother Tom

as Tom

Baby

as Little Joe

The Trench

as Pte. James Deamis

The Escort

as Jay

Diamond Shitter

as Nigel

All Signs of Death

as Web

Television (18)

Black Doves

2024

as Sam Young

7.1

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

2022

as Self

2.8

This Is Going to Hurt

2022

as Adam Kay

7.6

The Adventures of Paddington

2019

as Paddington (voice)

7.8

A Very English Scandal

as Norman Scott

Queers.

Queers.

as Perce

London Spy

as Danny

Fargo

as Patrick 'Rabbi' Milligan

The Hollow Crown

as King Richard

Playhouse Presents

as Ezra

The Hour

as Freddie Lyon

Criminal Justice

as Ben Coulter

The Graham Norton Show

as Self

Nathan Barley

as Pingu

Black Cab

as Ryan

Other People's Children

2000

as Sully

Bambi

1948

as Self

9.0

Crew (3)

Movies (2)

Peter Hujar's Day

Executive Producer

Bad Behaviour

Executive Producer

Television (1)

This Is Going to Hurt

2022

Executive Producer

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