Ben Whishaw

Ben Whishaw

Ben Whishaw (born 1980) is an actor. He was born and brought up in Clifton, Bedfordshire.

He played Sebastian Flyte in the 2008 film of Brideshead Revisited and Q in the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall.

In August 2013 he had a representative confirm that he had entered into a civil partnership with his Australian composer partner Mark Bradshaw in 2012. In 2011, he had said in an interview with Out Magazine:

"As an actor you have total rights to privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do. I don't see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities."

Whishaw received his third BAFTA Award nomination for the leading role in London Spy (2015) and, for his portrayal of Norman Scott (Jeremy Thorpe's lover) in the mini series A Very English Scandal (2018)