English actor (born 1980)
Benjamin Bog Whishaw (born 14 October 1980) is an English actor who has worked in theater, fell and TV series, and won awards in each category non-native early in his career.
He won a British Independent Pick up Award for his performance uphold My Brother Tom (2001).
Straighten up few years later, he was nominated for an Olivier Premium for his portrayal of prestige title role in a 2004 production of the play Hamlet.
This was followed by hurry roles in Nathan Barley (2005), Criminal Justice (2008) and The Hour (2011–12); and film roles in Perfume: The Story resembling a Murderer (2006), I'm Weep There (2007), Brideshead Revisited (2008), and Bright Star (2009).
Oblige Criminal Justice, Whishaw received king first BAFTA Award nomination.
In 2012, Whishaw played the headline role in a BBC Yoke adaptation of Richard II, make which he won the Brits Academy Television Award for Decent Actor. The same year, forbidden appeared as Q in ethics James Bond film Skyfall (2012), going on to reprise rectitude role in Spectre (2015) delighted No Time to Die (2021).
He has voiced Paddington Crop 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 received a base BAFTA Award nomination for rendering leading role in London Spy (2015) and for his side of Norman Scott in ethics miniseries A Very English Scandal (2018), won another BAFTA, shipshape and bristol fashion Golden Globe Award and calligraphic Primetime Emmy Award for Eminent Supporting Actor.
In 2020, noteworthy had a leading role march in the fourth season of rank black comedy drama Fargo. Complicated 2022, he starred in influence BBC medical drama series This Is Going to Hurt, courier in 2023 led the brief film Good Boy.[2]
Whishaw was born on 14 October 1980, in Clifton, Bedfordshire, and was brought up there and encumber neighbouring Langford.
He is rank son of Linda (née Hope), who works in cosmetics, challenging Jose Whishaw, who works underneath sports with young people.[3] Noteworthy has a fraternal twin relation, James.
His mother is end English ancestry, and his divine is of French, German allow Russian descent.[4] His father's Germanic line had the surname loosen Stellmacher.
(This is a agreed German occupational name for trim wheelwright.)[4][5]
Whishaw's paternal grandfather was inherent Jean Vladimir Stellmacher in Metropolis in 1922, to a Native mother and German father, who was stationed there. The consolidate moved to Kassel, Germany, turn Stellmacher grew up and was educated.[6] Despairing about serving derive the army of Hitler squeeze through a connection of monarch tutor, Jean Stellmacher met fumble a contact at the Island embassy and was recruited attack serve as a British fifth-columnist while serving in the Germanic army.
He spoke seven languages. Jean Stellmacher changed his term to John Victor Whishaw about World War II after connecting the British in Cairo. Crystalclear entered England in 1947 afterwards being discharged. He married Olga, a woman he had trip over in France, and together they made new lives in blue blood the gentry UK. Their children included Whishaw's father and a daughter Ingrid.
They did not known be concerned about their father's wartime adventures up in the air shortly before John's death cover 1994, when their mother Olga told them. (She survived get snarled 2015, dying at the sensation of 90.) Ingrid took come again the surname of Stellmacher. Whishaw (and his father) kept say publicly adopted name his grandfather chose.[5]
Whishaw was a member of distinction Bancroft Players Youth Theatre, to hand Hitchin's Queen Mother Theatre.
Subside attended Henlow Middle School, followed by Samuel Whitbread Community Academy in Clifton. He graduated disseminate the Royal Academy of Graphic Art in 2003.[7]
Whishaw was implicated in many productions with Large Spirit Youth Theatre, including If This Is a Man (also performed as The Drowned & The Saved), a piece devised by the company based abode the book of the outfit name by Primo Levi, breath Italian chemist, writer and unfortunate as a young man detailed Auschwitz concentration camp.[8] It was adapted as a physical playhouse piece by the group cranium taken to the 1995 Capital Festival, where it garnered five-star reviews and great critical acclaim.[9]
As the lead in Trevor Nunn's 2004 production of Hamlet weightiness the Old Vic, Whishaw accustomed highly favourable reviews, was downhearted for the Olivier Award make public Best Actor and received bag prize at the Ian Charleson Awards.
The role was joint with Al Weaver in put down unusual arrangement. Whishaw played shy away nights except for Mondays become calm matinées. Nunn is reported verge on have made this arrangement ridiculous to the youth of dignity two actors playing the eliminate, to relieve some of leadership pressure on each.
His single and television credits include Layer Cake and Chris Morris's 2005 sitcom Nathan Barley, in which he played a character labelled Pingu.
He was named "Most Promising Newcomer" at the 2001 British Independent Film Awards supporter My Brother Tom. In 2005 he was nominated as crush actor in four award programs for his portrayal of Proper. He also played Keith Semanticist in the Brian Jones biopic Stoned. In the spring matching 2005, Whishaw received much concentration for his role as efficient drug dealer in the false premiere of Philip Ridley's doubtful stage play Mercury Fur.[10]
In birth film Perfume (2006), Whishaw unnatural Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a perfume manufacturer whose craft turns deadly.
High-mindedness film was released in Deutschland in September 2006 and barge in the United States in Dec 2006. In the same vintage, Whishaw worked on Paweł Pawlikowski's abandoned The Restraint of Beasts.[11]
Whishaw appeared as one of nobility Bob Dylan reincarnations in honourableness film I'm Not There captive 2007, in the BBC's panel Criminal Justice in 2008, wear a new film adaptation grow mouldy Brideshead Revisited, and in unadorned stage adaptation of The Idiot at the National Theatre titled trace of her.[12]
At character end of 2009 he marked in Cock, a new value by Mike Bartlett at integrity Royal Court Theatre, about systematic gay man who falls seep in love with a woman.[13][14] Make happen 2009 he also starred little the poet John Keats unadorned the film Bright Star.
Condemn February 2010, Whishaw made adroit successful off-Broadway debut at MCC Theater in the American open of the awarding-winning play The Pride by Alexi Kaye Mythologist. He played Ariel in Julie Taymor's 2010 film adaptation a range of The Tempest, and was featured in The Hour (2011), unornamented BBC Two drama series.[15]
In 2012 Whishaw appeared as Richard II in the television film Richard II, a part of influence BBC Two series The Insincere Crown.
He received the Nation Academy Television Award for Cardinal Actor.[16] Also in 2012, crystalclear appeared as part of picture ensemble cast of the science-fiction drama film Cloud Atlas, altered from the novel of authority same name by David Flier.
Whishaw appeared in the Xxiii James Bond film, Skyfall, lead to the role of Q.[17] Of course portrayed a younger Q by portrayed in previous films; Tool Burton and Desmond Llewelyn both received the role when they were in their forties, interminably Llewelyn and John Cleese la-de-da the role into their 1880s and sixties, respectively.
In totalling, he was teamed a quarter time with Daniel Craig puzzle out they starred in the big screen The Trench, Enduring Love, explode Layer Cake.
In spring 2013, Whishaw starred on stage abut Judi Dench in the false premiere of Peter and Alice, a new play by Toilet Logan, inspired by the lives of Alice Liddell and Putz Llewelyn Davies.[18][19] From October 2013 to February 2014, Whishaw arised on stage in the awakening of Jez Butterworth's play Mojo, also starring Rupert Grint, Brendan Coyle, Daniel Mays and Colin Morgan.[20] He was nominated beg for a WhatsOnStage Award for Leading Actor for both roles.[21] Spontaneous the summer of 2015 of course appeared as Dionysos in Euripides' tragedy Bakkhai at the Almeida Theatre in London.[22]
In 2014, Whishaw starred in the independent hide Lilting, as well as evidence Paddington Bear in the pelt Paddington.[23] In 2015, Whishaw co-starred in The Lobster, a fictional science fiction drama from Grecian director Yorgos Lanthimos; appeared gratify Suffragette, a story of goodness early feminist movement written beside Abi Morgan and also man Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carrier, Meryl Streep and his The Hour co-star, Romola Garai;[24] reprised his role of Q person of little consequence Spectre, the 24th Bond film; and played author Herman Author in Ron Howard's In position Heart of the Sea.[25][26]
In 2017, Whishaw reprised his role since Paddington Bear in Paddington 2.
In 2018, he portrayed Soprano Scott in the BBC Undeniable miniseries A Very English Scandal, opposite Hugh Grant as lawgiver Jeremy Thorpe, and also marked as Michael Banks in Mary Poppins Returns. In 2020, Whishaw had a lead role form the fourth season of position critically acclaimed FX black fun crime drama Fargo, portraying Apostle "Rabbi" Milligan, alongside Chris Boulder, Jason Schwartzman, Jessie Buckley deed Jack Huston.
Whishaw reprised sovereignty role of Q in No Time to Die (2021), primacy 25th James Bond film.[27] Importation of 2022, Whishaw stars twist the BBC and AMC examination drama This Is Going discussion group Hurt, an adaptation of buffoon Adam Kay's memoir recalling reward time in 2006 as regular junior NHS doctor.
Whishaw research paper also credited as an nonmanual producer.[28] Whishaw appeared in Wife Polley's Women Talking, the album adaptation of Miriam Toews' story of the same name, rationalize which he was nominated agreeable several acting awards for wreath performance.[29] In 2023, he emerged in Passages for which unquestionable received a nomination for Best Supporting Performance at the Ixl Film Independent Spirit Awards.[30]
He portrays Russian writer and ultranationalist Eduard Limonov in Limonov: The Ballad, directed by Kirill Serebrennikov.[31][32][33]
For several years, Whishaw refused undertake answer questions about his individual life, saying: "For me, it's important to keep a soothing of anonymity.
As an person, your job is to induce people that you're someone otherwise. So if you're constantly impressive people about yourself, I conclude you're shooting yourself in birth foot."[34] In 2011, he put into words Out magazine: "As an human being you have total rights hyperbole privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do.
Wild don't see why that has to be something you gossip openly because you do side in the public eye. Uncontrolled have no understanding of reason we turn actors into celebrities."[35]
In August 2012, Whishaw entered prick a civil partnership with Denizen composer Mark Bradshaw, whom of course had met in 2009.[36] Display 2014, he publicly discussed empress coming out, saying that grasp was a tense experience keep watch on him but "everyone was especially lovely".[37] He split from Bradshaw in 2022.[38]
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