Ben Whishaw
Benjamin John "Ben" Whishaw (born 14 October 1980) is an English actor who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Whishaw is best known for his breakthrough role as Hamlet, his roles in the television series Nathan Barley, Criminal Justice, The Hour and London Spy; and film roles including Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), I'm Not There (2007), Bright Star (2009), Brideshead Revisited (2008), Cloud Atlas (2012), The Lobster (2015) and Suffragette (2015). He has also played the role of Q in the James Bond films starting with Skyfall (2012), and was the voice of Paddington Bear in the 2014 film, Paddington.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.624 |
| Birthday | 1980-10-14 |
| Place of Birth | Clifton, Bedfordshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | 벤 위쇼, Benjamin John Whishaw, Μπεν Γουίσοου, بن ویشاو, |
2006
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
7.4/4637
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest pe...
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2007
I'm Not There
6.5/714
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger...
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I'm Not There
2004
Layer Cake
6.91/2158
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime an...
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Layer Cake
2008
Brideshead Revisited
6.3/153
Artist Charles Ryder runs into aristocrat Julia Flyte and recalls his friendship with her eccentric family prior to the outbreak of the Second World W...
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Brideshead Revisited
1999
The Trench
5.5/89
The Trench tells the story of a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916, the worst defeat in Briti...
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The Trench
2004
Enduring Love
5.7/123
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a...
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Enduring Love
2023
Passages
6.3/189
Tomas and Martin are a gay couple living in Paris whose marriage is thrown into crisis when Tomas impulsively begins a passionate affair with young sc...
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Passages
2021
Being James Bond
7.7/88
Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his 15 year adventure as James Bond. Including never-before-seen archival footage from Casino Royale to the upcoming...
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Being James Bond
2009
Bright Star
6.6/454
In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her f...
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Bright Star
2012
Skyfall
7.246/15345
When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to he...
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Skyfall
2010
The Tempest
5.4/119
An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been ban...
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The Tempest
2005
Stoned
5.2/47
A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks a...
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Stoned
1999
The Escort
5.3/23
Fleeing from his wife in France to London, 45-year-old Pierre is barely able to support himself. He meets friendly Tom, who offers to help him make en...
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The Escort
2023
Good Boy
6.3/3
A son and mother's attempt to rob a bank is scuppered by bizarre manifestations from their past.
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Good Boy
2012
Cloud Atlas
6.886/7141
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and con...
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Cloud Atlas
2021
Miss Fortunate
0/0
If luck is a lady, grief is a bitch. A young woman loses her mother and finds herself.
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Miss Fortunate
2001
My Brother Tom
6.1/24
A teenage girl, Jessica, befriends a teenage boy called Tom, who is bullied by a local gang. She is abused by Jack, who is both her neighbour and scho...
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My Brother Tom
2009
Love Hate
8/6
A sweet-natured charity worker finds his life turned upside down, when he falls in love with a mysterious woman.
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Love Hate
2013
The Zero Theorem
6.107/1225
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they s...
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The Zero Theorem
2025
Peter Hujar’s Day
0/0
A recently discovered conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz in 1974 reveals a glimpse into New York City’s do...
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Peter Hujar’s Day
2024
Limonov: The Ballad
6.3/53
A revolutionary militant, a thug, an underground writer, a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. But also a switchblade-waving poet, a lover of beauti...
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Limonov: The Ballad
2002
Baby
6.5/13
A teenage boy finds all around him has sexual overtones as he lives a teenage life of drugs and masturbation.
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Baby
2015
In the Heart of the Sea
6.76/4140
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almo...
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In the Heart of the Sea
2015
Spectre
6.555/10629
A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret servic...
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Spectre
2013
Teenage
6.46/25
Teenagers did not exist before the 20th century. Not until the early 1950s did the term gain widespread recognition, but "Teenage" offers compelling e...
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Teenage
2014
Days and Nights
4.7/19
Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. A modern retelling of Anton Chek...
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Days and Nights
2014
Lilting
7/122
A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language,...
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Lilting
2015
Suffragette
7.2/1620
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and m...
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Suffragette
2023
Bad Behaviour
4.9/19
Lucy, a former child actor, seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon while she navigates her close yet turbulent relationship wit...
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Bad Behaviour
2022
Ungentle
5.5/2
A film exploring the complicated relationship between British espionage and male homosexuality.
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Ungentle
2014
Paddington
7.103/3831
A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a new home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown famil...
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Paddington
2015
The Lobster
7.044/6345
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partne...
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The Lobster
2021
Designing Bond
0/0
Production designer Mark Tildesley and costume designer Suttirat Anne Larlarb, along with cast and other filmmakers, discuss the inspiration, challeng...
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Designing Bond
2014
The Muse
8.2/4
Legend has it that if a human man falls in love with a mermaid she will grow legs; legs that will, if she so desires, carry her far, far away from the...
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The Muse
2015
Unity
7.5/33
Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one anothe...
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Unity
2015
The Danish Girl
7.572/5775
When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as L...
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The Danish Girl
2017
Paddington 2
7.459/2447
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.
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Paddington 2
2013
Beat
7/3
A film about a man walking a paper-thin line between hopelessness and euphoria, testing and pushing the boundaries of conventions and impulse.
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Beat
2004
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
7.3/3
Remake of the 1976 TV drama by Jack Rosenthal. An extra in a TV drama is finally given a line to say. He goes on to cause mounting chaos
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Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
2003
Spiritual Rampage
0/0
Two boys go to a park to look for girls. Unusually, one of them is doing it for Lord Krishna.
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Spiritual Rampage
2003
The Booze Cruise
7.3/3
A group of men from Kent; Clive (Martin Clunes), Rob (Neil Pearson), Dave (Mark Benton), Maurice (Brian Murphy) and Daniel (Ben Whishaw) - go on a boo...
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The Booze Cruise
2016
A Hologram for the King
5.831/1151
Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Ea...
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A Hologram for the King
2018
Mary Poppins Returns
6.512/3332
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.
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Mary Poppins Returns
2018
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
7.6/5
Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspi...
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National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
2021
No Time to Die
7.368/6424
Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns...
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No Time to Die
All Signs of Death
0/0
Centers on an inveterate twenty-something slacker who stumbles into a career as a crime scene cleaner, only to find himself entangled with a murder my...
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All Signs of Death
2019
The Personal History of David Copperfield
6.4/480
A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chron...
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The Personal History of David Copperfield
2018
His Picture In Little
0/0
A portrait of three actors of different generations who have all portrayed Hamlet: David Warner, Stephen Dillane and Ben Whishaw.
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His Picture In Little
2018
Palo Santo
6/2
Palo Santo, a city on a distant planet, on which human beings are a rare commodity, worshipped and idolized by an android society. Olly, along with th...
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Palo Santo
2017
Family Happiness
0/0
A story about small cruelties, adult bullying, and the power of a brothers unconditional love for his complex little sister.
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Family Happiness
2019
Little Joe
5.71/281
Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage son Joe, develops a new variety of flower that is s...
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Little Joe
2024
Paddington in Peru
6.8/223
Paddington travels to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling ad...
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Paddington in Peru
2020
Surge
5.5/58
A man goes on a bold and reckless journey of self-liberation through London. After he robs a bank he releases a wilder version of himself, ultimately...
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Surge
2019
O Holy Ghost
0/0
A mixture of rapture and disenchantment, O HOLY GHOST follows the inner experiences of two believers at opposite ends of the spiritual spectrum.
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O Holy Ghost
2022
Women Talking
6.9/608
A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.
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Women Talking
Paddington 4
0/0
Plot TBA. The fourth installment in the Paddington series.
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Paddington 4
2024
In Heat
0/0
A recovering sex addict sits on the edge of a beach car park, looking to cruise, while talking on an addiction helpline – with a husband patiently wai...
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In Heat
2024
Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing
0/0
Follows the life of Alan Turing and roughly 49,000 other men who were convicted and imprisoned for the "crime" of gross indecency.
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Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing
2024
An A to Z of Paddington
0/0
Dive deep into the lore and influence of Paddington in this feel-good documentary composed of beautiful illustrations and interviews with famous fans.
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An A to Z of Paddington
2022
Paddington Meets The Queen
0/0
Paddington learns that The Queen also loves marmalade sandwiches. He shows Her Majesty where he hides his sandwiches, and The Queen also shows where s...
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Paddington Meets The Queen
Diamond Shitter
0/0
In Geneva's wealthy international circles, privileged expatriates navigate their luxurious lives while dealing with personal dramas and hidden secrets...
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