BEN WHISHAW

BIOGRAPHY

Ben studied at Samuel Whitbread Community College in Clifton and went on to train at RADA, from where he graduated in 2003.  He won the Most Promising Newcomer Award at the 2001 British Independent Film Awards for his role in 'My Brother Tom'.  Ben was also the youngest actor to play Hamlet in such a high-scale production.

FILMOGRAPHY

Film

The Restraint Of Beasts

Perfume ...Jean-Baptiste Grenouille

Stoned...Keith Richards

Enduring Love...Spud

77 Beds...Ishmael

Layer Cake... Sidney

Baby...Little Joe

The Trench...Dennis

My Brother Tom...Tom

The Escort (aka Mauvaise Passe)...Jay

TV

Nathan Barley...Pingu

The Booze Cruise...Daniel

Ready When You Are Mr McGill...Bruno

Other People's children...Sully

Black Cab...Ryan (episode 1.5)

Theatre

TheSeagull...Konstantin (National Theatre)

Mercury Fur...Eliot (Drum Theatre, Plymouth & Menier Chocolate Theatre, London)

Hamlet...Hamlet (The Old Vic)

His Dark Materials...Brother Jasper/Kaisa (National Theatre)

Theatre whilst at RADA

The Birthday Party...Stanley

The Robbers...Schuarz/The Priest

Mojo...Skinny

Early Morning...Israeli

The Devil in Drag...Geron de la Noci/ Donkey/Devil/Public

The Dutch Lover...Pedro/Antonio

Thyestes...The Fury

Rule a Wife Have a Wife...Don Juan/Leon

Le Morte D'Arthur...Arthur/Dynadan

Ado About Nothing...Don Predro

The Seagull...Konstantin/Yakov

Other Theatre

'Hamlet', 'If This is a Man', and 'I Licked a Slag's Deodrant' with the Big Spirit Theatre Company.

WEBSITE

Ben Whishaw - Compelling

PICTURES