Biography
Ben Whishaw is an English actor. He was born on 14 October 1980 in Clifton, Bedfordshire, England. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2004.
Whishaw played the title role in a 2004 stage production of Hamlet. His television work includes Nathan Barley (2005), The Hour (2011–12), London Spy (2015) and A Very English Scandal (2018). Film roles include Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), Cloud Atlas (2012), The Lobster (2015) and The Danish Girl (2015). He portrayed Q in the James Bond film Skyfall (2012), reprising the role in Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021). He has voiced Paddington Brown in Paddington (2014), Paddington 2 (2017) and Paddington in Peru (2024). Other credits include Women Talking (2022) and Passages (2023).
Whishaw has received three British Academy Television Awards, two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
