Ben Whishaw

Acting

Born 1980-10-14 Clifton, Bedfordshire, England, UK 82 credits Primetime Emmy Awards 1 BAFTA Awards 1 Broadcasting Press Guild Award 1 Theatre World Award 1

Awards

Won 1 Primetime Emmy Award

Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won

2019 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Won A Very English Scandal

BAFTA Awards 1 won · 3 nominated

2016 Best Actor Nominated London Spy
2013 Best Actor Won The Hollow Crown
2009 Best Actor Nominated Criminal Justice
2007 BAFTA Rising Star Award Nominated Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Online Film & Television Association Award 2 nominated

2014 Online Film & Television Association Award Nominated The Hollow Crown
2007 Online Film & Television Association Award Nominated Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Broadcasting Press Guild Award 1 won · 1 nominated

2013 Broadcasting Press Guild Award Nominated The Hollow Crown
2012 Broadcasting Press Guild Award Won The Hour

Theatre World Award 1 won

2016 Theatre World Award Won The Crucible

British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor 1 nominated

2015 Best Supporting Actor Nominated The Lobster

Award data from Wikidata (CC0). Coverage may be incomplete.

Read 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 (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).