Ben Whishaw
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Clifton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
Not long after British actor Ben Whishaw debuted onscreen in the late '90s, he began to reveal a gift (and a proclivity) for essaying some of the more intense and unusual characterizations in contemporary cinema, occasionally delivering uncanny evocations of real-life figures. Whishaw was memorable as a young Keith Richards in Stephen Woolley's Brian Jones biopic Stoned (2005), then portrayed a demented young man so determined to capture "the scent of womanhood" that he resorts to serial murder in Tom Tykwer's psychological thriller Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006). Whishaw evoked a young Bob Dylan (one of many) in Todd Haynes' controversial avant-garde biopic of the folk singer, I'm Not There (2007), then signed on to portray famed author John Keats in director Jane Campion's dramatization of the Keats/Fanny Brawne romance, Bright Star (2008). That same year, audiences could catch Whishaw's portrayal of Sebastian in Julian Jarrold's big-screen Evelyn Waugh adaptation , Brideshead Revisited (2008). In the years to come, Winshaw would remain a bankable actor, with prominent roles in films like Skyfall and Cloud Atlas.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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83% | No Time To Die |
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— | 2021 |
92% | The Personal History of David Copperfield |
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— | 2020 |
77% | Surge |
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— | 2020 |
67% | Little Joe |
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— | 2019 |
80% | Mary Poppins Returns |
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— | 2018 |
99% | Paddington 2 |
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— | 2018 |
87% | The Lobster |
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$9.1M | 2016 |
70% | A Hologram for the King |
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— | 2016 |
43% | In the Heart of the Sea |
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$19.1M | 2015 |
67% | The Danish Girl |
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— | 2015 |
63% | Spectre |
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$208.8M | 2015 |
73% | Suffragette |
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$7.2M | 2015 |
97% | Paddington |
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$85.9M | 2015 |
0% | Days and Nights |
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$6.5k | 2014 |
82% | Lilting |
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— | 2014 |
48% | The Zero Theorem |
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— | 2014 |
77% | Teenage |
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$20k | 2014 |
92% | Skyfall |
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$299.4M | 2012 |
66% | Cloud Atlas |
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$22.1M | 2012 |
30% | The Tempest |
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$0.3M | 2010 |
83% | Bright Star |
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$4.4M | 2009 |
62% | Brideshead Revisited |
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$6.4M | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Criminal Justice |
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— | 2008 |
77% | I'm Not There |
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$4M | 2007 |
59% | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer |
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$2.2M | 2006 |
14% | Stoned |
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— | 2005 |
80% | Layer Cake |
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$2.3M | 2005 |
59% | Enduring Love |
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$0.4M | 2004 |
No Score Yet | My Brother Tom |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Mauvaise passe (The Escort) (The Wrong Blonde) |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | The Trench |
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— | 1999 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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93% |
Fargo
2014-2020
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97% |
A Very English Scandal
2018
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No Score Yet |
Queers
2017
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86% |
London Spy
2015
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No Score Yet |
Great Performances
1972
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No Score Yet |
Shakespeare Uncovered
2013-2018
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88% |
The Hour
2011-2012
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98% |
The Hollow Crown
2012-2016
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No Score Yet |
Nathan Barley
2005
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Quotes from Ben Whishaw's Characters
Hotel Manager: | Tomorrow, they'll be transferred to a double room, with a larger wardrobe and a larger bathroom. They will remain in the double room for two weeks, then they'll be transferred to the yachts for a further two weeks. We wish you every success and we hope that you will return to the city as a couple. |
The Limping Man: | I'm very happy. |
Nosebleed Woman: | Me too. |
Q: | I have a mortgage to pay and two cats to feed. |
James Bond: | So you'd better trust me. For the sake of the cats. |
James Bond: | What does it do |
James Bond: | Does it... do anything? |
Q: | It tells the time! |
Q: | Magnificent isn't she. |
James Bond: | A gun and a radio...not exactly Christmas, is it? |
Q: | What did you expect, an exploding pen? We don't really go for that anymore. |
Robert Frobisher: | A true suicide is a paced, disciplined certainty. People pontificate, "suicide is selfish," while career churchman like Pater call it a coward's act typically because they lack the necessary suffering to sympathize. Couldn't be further from the truth; suicide takes tremendous courage. |
Robert Frobisher: | This world spins from the same unseen forces that twist our hearts. |
Robert Frobisher: | I understand now that boundaries between noise & sound are conventions.All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended.One may transcend any convention, if only one can first conceive of doing so. |
Robert Frobisher: | I understand now that boundaries between noise & sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention, if only one can first conceive of doing so. |
Robert Frobisher: | All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be trancended. |
M: | Every now and then a trigger has to be pulled. |
Q: | Every now and then a trigger has to be pulled. |
James Bond: | Or not pulled. It's hard to know which in your pajamas. |
Q: | 007. I'm your new Quartermaster. |
James Bond: | You must be joking... |
Q: | Why? Because I'm not wearing a lab coat? |
James Bond: | Because you still have spots. |
Q: | My complexion is hardly relevant. |
James Bond: | Your incompetence is. |
Q: | Age is no guarantee of efficiency. |
James Bond: | And youth is no guarantee of innovation. |
Arthur: | 7 simple rules for life in hiding: 1. Never trust a cop in a rain coat 2. Beware of enthusiasm and of love, each is temporary and quick to sway 3. When asked if you care about the worlds problems, look deep into the eyes of he who asks, he will not ask you again. 4 & 5. Never give your real name, and if told to look at yourself, never look. 6. Never do or say anything that the person standing in front of you cannot understand. 7. Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you the rest of your life, it will never change. |
Q: | Always makes me feel a bit melancholy. A grand old war ship, being ignominiously hauled away for scrap. The inevitability of time, don't you think? What do you see? |
James Bond: | A bloody big ship. Excuse me. |
Q: | 007. I'm your new Quartermaster. |
James Bond: | You must be joking. |
Q: | Why, because I'm not wearing a lab coat? |
James Bond: | Because you still have spots. |
Q: | So much for my prosperous career in espionage. |
Q: | So much for my promising career in espionage. |
Q: | What were you expecting, an exploding pen? |
Q: | I can do more damage on my laptop than you can do in a year sitting in my pyjamas and waiting for my Earl Grey. |
Q: | I can do more damage on my laptop, sitting in my pajamas, before my first cup of Earl Grey than you can do a year in the field. |
James Bond: | A radio and a gun. Not exactly Christmas, is it? |
Q: | You weren't expecting an exploding pen, were you? |
Robert Frobisher: | My dear Sixsmith, I'm in desperate need of your help. I got hooked on a journal, written in 1849 by a dying lawyer during a voyage from a Pacific isle to San Francisco. Half the book is missing. It's completely killing me; a half-finished book is, after all, a half-finished love affair. |
Robert Frobisher: | I believe there is another world waiting for us, Sixsmith, a better world. And I'll be waiting for you there. |
Timothy Cavendish: | That's it, the music from my dream. |
Robert Frobisher: | I call it the Cloud Atlas Sextet. There are whole movements imagining us meeting again and again in different lives, different ages. |
Robert Frobisher: | I believe there is another world waiting for us, Sixsmith. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there. |
Robert Frobisher: | I believe there is a another world waiting for us, Sixsmith. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there. |
Q: | "What did you want, an exploding pen? We don't really do that any more |
Q: | What did you want, an exploding pen? |
Ariel: | I have made you mad... |
Q: | Less of a random killing machine. More of a personal statement! |
Q: | I'm your quartermaster. |
James Bond: | You must be joking! |
Sebastian Flyte: | I should like to bury something precious, in every place I've been happy. And then when I was old, and ugly and miserable, I could come back, and dig it up, and remember. |
Fanny Brawne: | You know I would do anything. |
Fanny Brawne: | [the night before he leaves] You know I would do anything. |
John Keats: | I have a conscience. |
John Keats: | There is a holiness to the heart's affections you know nothing about! |
John Keats: | There is a holiness to the heart's affections you know nothing about! |