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->''"The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected."''

Benjamin John Whishaw (born 14 October 1980, in Clifton, England) is an English actor of stage, movies, and TV.

He seems to like playing characters that qualify for [[BewareTheNiceOnes Beware The Nice]] and/or [[BewareTheQuietOnes Quiet Ones]]. He gained international attention when he was cast as the new Q in the Film/JamesBond films starring Creator/DanielCraig, beginning with ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''. He has also voiced [[Franchise/{{Paddington}} Paddington Bear]] since 2014.
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!!Selected filmography:

* ''Film/EnduringLove'' (2004) as Spud
* ''Film/LayerCake'' (2004) as [[CrazyJealousGuy Sidney]]
* ''Series/NathanBarley'' (2005) as [[ExtremeDoormat Pingu]]
* ''Literature/{{Perfume}}'' (2006) as [[SerialKiller Jean-Baptiste Grenouille]]
* ''Film/ImNotThere'' (2007) as a fictional [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rimbaud Arthur Rimbaud]] quoting Music/BobDylan
* ''Film/BrightStar'' (2009) as Creator/JohnKeats
* ''[[Film/LoveHate2009 Love/Hate]]'' (2009) as Tom
* ''Film/{{The Tempest|2010}}'' (2010) as Ariel
* ''Series/TheHour'' (2011) as [[IntrepidReporter Freddie Lyon]]
* ''Series/TheHollowCrown'' (2012) as Theatre/RichardII
* Film/JamesBond as [[GadgeteerGenius Q]]
** ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' (2012)
** ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' (2015)
** ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' (2021)
* ''Film/CloudAtlas'' (2013) as Robert Frobisher / [[CrosscastRole Georgette]] / the record store clerk
* ''Film/TheZeroTheorem'' (2013) as Doctor 3
* ''Franchise/{{Paddington}}'' as Paddington Bear
** ''Film/{{Paddington|2014}}'' (2014)
** ''Film/Paddington2'' (2017)
** ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPaddington'' (2019-)
** [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethII Queen Elizabeth II]]'s Platinum Jubilee short (2022)
* ''Film/MaryPoppinsReturns'' (2018) as Michael Banks
* ''Literature/AVeryEnglishScandal'' (2018) as Norman Josiffe
* ''Film/ThePersonalHistoryOfDavidCopperfield'' (2019) as Uriah Heep
* ''Series/{{Fargo}}'' ([[Series/FargoSeasonFour Season Four]], 2020) as Patrick "Rabbi" Milligan
* ''Series/ThisIsGoingToHurt'' (2022) as Adam Kay
* ''Film/WomenTalking'' (2022) as August
* ''Film/{{Passages}}'' (2023) as Martin

!!Tropes pertaining to this actor:
* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Since coming out as gay in 2013, Whishaw has played several gay characters including:
** Richard in ''Film/{{Lilting}}''
** Danny in ''Series/LondonSpy''
** Norman in ''Literature/AVeryEnglishScandal''
** Theatre/RichardII has also been portrayed homoerotically, which was the route they took in ''Series/TheHollowCrown''
** Prior to coming out, he also played the AmbiguouslyGay Sebastian in ''Literature/BridesheadRevisited'' and Frobisher in ''Film/CloudAtlas''.
** His portrayal of the Film/JamesBond franchise's resident GadgeteerGenius Q is revealed to be gay (or bisexual) in ''Film/NoTimeToDie''.
** He portrays Adam Kay, based on the real Adam Kay, in ''This Is Going to Hurt''.
** His character in ''Passages'' is married to another man.
* ShakespearianActors: Has a long history of appearing in Shakespeare productions and won a BAFTA for his performance as ''Theatre/RichardII'' in ''Series/TheHollowCrown''.
* ThoseTwoActors: He has played alongside Creator/DanielCraig in ''Film/EnduringLove'', ''Film/LayerCake'', ''The Trench'' and [[Film/{{Skyfall}} three]] [[Film/{{Spectre}} James Bond]] [[Film/NoTimeToDie films]].

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