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Ben Whishaw
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 Gold…
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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).
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2028
Elden Ring
Movie
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2026
Bruvvas
Movie He
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2026
Images: Making "Peter Hujar's Day"
Movie Self
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2025
Peter Hujar's Day
Movie Peter Hujar
- 2025
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2024
Black Doves
TV show Sam Young
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2024
Paddington in Peru
Movie Paddington Brown (voice)
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2024
An A to Z of Paddington
Movie Self
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2024
Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing
Movie Narrator
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2024
In Heat
Movie Jon
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2024
Limonov: The Ballad
Movie Eduard 'Eddie' Limonov
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2023
Bad Behaviour
Movie Elon Bello
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2023
Passages
Movie Martin
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2023
Good Boy
Movie Danny
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2022
Women Talking
Movie August
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2022
Ungentle
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TV show Self
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2022
Paddington Meets The Queen
Movie Paddington (voice)
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2022
This Is Going to Hurt
TV show Adam Kay
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2021
Designing Bond
Movie Self
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2021
No Time to Die
Movie Q
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2021
Miss Fortunate
Movie Humourless Man
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2020
Surge
Movie Joseph
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2019
The Adventures of Paddington
TV show Paddington (voice)
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2019
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Movie Uriah Heep
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2019
Little Joe
Movie Chris
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2019
O Holy Ghost
Movie Charmaine
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2018
Mary Poppins Returns
Movie Michael Banks
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2018
Palo Santo
Movie Palo Santo Hologram
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2018
A Very English Scandal
TV show Norman Scott
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2018
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
Movie Marcus Brutus
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2018
His Picture In Little
Movie
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2017
Paddington 2
Movie Paddington Brown (voice)
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2017
Family Happiness
Movie Romily Wells
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2017
Queers.
TV show Perce
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2016
A Hologram for the King
Movie Dave
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2015
In the Heart of the Sea
Movie Herman Melville
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2015
The Danish Girl
Movie Henrik
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2015
London Spy
TV show Danny
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2015
Spectre
Movie Q
