{"id":28386,"date":"2026-07-10T18:47:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemoviesnight.com\/?movie_engine_person=ben-whishaw"},"modified":"2026-07-10T18:47:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:47:41","slug":"ben-whishaw","status":"publish","type":"movie_engine_person","link":"https:\/\/lovemoviesnight.com\/?movie_engine_person=ben-whishaw","title":{"rendered":"Ben Whishaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin John Whishaw\u00a0(born 14 October 1980) is an English actor. He has received\u00a0various accolades, including three\u00a0British Academy Television Awards, two\u00a0Emmy Awards, and a\u00a0Golden Globe.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning his career in the 2000s, he played\u00a0the title role\u00a0in a 2004 production of the play\u00a0Hamlet. Television roles followed this in\u00a0Nathan Barley\u00a0(2005),\u00a0Criminal Justice\u00a0(2008) and\u00a0The Hour\u00a0(2011\u201312); and film roles in\u00a0Perfume: The Story of a Murderer\u00a0(2006),\u00a0I&#8217;m Not There\u00a0(2007),\u00a0Brideshead Revisited\u00a0(2008), and\u00a0Bright Star (2009).<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Whishaw played\u00a0the title role\u00a0in a\u00a0BBC Two adaptation\u00a0of\u00a0Richard II, for which he won the\u00a0British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. The same year, he appeared as\u00a0Q\u00a0in the\u00a0James Bond\u00a0film\u00a0Skyfall\u00a0(2012), going on to reprise the role in\u00a0Spectre\u00a0(2015) and\u00a0No Time to Die\u00a0(2021). He has voiced\u00a0Paddington Bear\u00a0in several projects since\u00a0Paddington\u00a0(2014). His other film roles in the 2010s include\u00a0Cloud Atlas (2012),\u00a0The Lobster\u00a0(2015),\u00a0Suffragette\u00a0(2015),\u00a0The Danish Girl\u00a0(2015), and\u00a0Mary Poppins Returns\u00a0(2018).<\/p>\n<p>Whishaw had a leading role in\u00a0London Spy\u00a0(2015). For his portrayal of\u00a0Norman Scott\u00a0in the miniseries\u00a0A Very English Scandal\u00a0(2018), he won a\u00a0BAFTA, a\u00a0Golden Globe Award\u00a0and a\u00a0Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor. In 2020, he had a leading role in the\u00a0fourth season\u00a0of the black comedy drama\u00a0Fargo. He has since starred in the\u00a0BBC\u00a0medical drama series\u00a0This Is Going to Hurt\u00a0(2022), the short film\u00a0Good Boy\u00a0(2023), and the\u00a0Netflix\u00a0spy thriller series\u00a0Black Doves\u00a0(2024).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin John Whishaw\u00a0(born 14 October 1980) is an English actor. 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