Ben Whishaw — Actor (39)
Teenage (2013) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Teenage
director: Matt Wolf actor: Ben Whishaw / Jena Malone
Teenagers did not exist before the 20th century. Not until the early 1950s did the term gain widespread recognition, but "Teenage" offers compelling evidence that teenagers had a tumultuous effect on the previous half-decade.
The Tempest (2010) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Tempest
director: Julie Taymor actor: Helen Mirren / Felicity Jones
other title: A Tempestade / The Tempest - Der Sturm
An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been banished to a mysterious island with her daughter. Using her magical powers, she draws her enemies to the island to exact her revenge.
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar (2018) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital. Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake.
Ungentle (2022) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Ungentle
director: Huw Lemmey / Onyeka Igwe actor: Ben Whishaw
A fictionalised essay read by Ben Wishaw exploring the complicated relationship between British espionage and male homosexuality. An anonymous narrator talks through the various chapters of his life as a spy and a gay man in late 20th-century Britain. His vivid stories of intimacy and surveillance play out over shots of the luscious countryside, busy Central London streets, and nighttime cruising zones.
A Hologram for the King (2016) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
A Hologram for the King
director: Tom Tykwer actor: Tom Hanks / Sarita Choudhury
other title: Aspettando il Re / Negócio das Arábias
Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.
The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb Skybridge WikiData
The Personal History of David Copperfield
director: Armando Iannucci actor: Dev Patel / Peter Capaldi
other title: La vita straordinaria di David Copperfield / A Vida Extraordinária de Copperfield
A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive place within it. From his unhappy childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and writer, David’s journey is by turns hilarious and tragic, but always full of life, colour and humanity.
The Hour (2011) [TV] TMDB
The Hour
director: Abi Morgan actor: Ben Whishaw / Romola Garai
A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.
Limonov: The Ballad (2024) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Limonov: The Ballad
director: Kirill Serebrennikov actor: Ben Whishaw / Viktoriya Miroshnichenko
other title: Limonov / Limonov. La Ballade
A revolutionary militant, a thug, an underground writer, a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. But also a switchblade-waving poet, a lover of beautiful women, a warmonger, a political agitator, and a novelist who wrote of his greatness. Eduard Limonov’s life story is a journey through Russia, America, and Europe during the second half of the 20th century.
In the Heart of the Sea (2015) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
In the Heart of the Sea
director: Ron Howard actor: Chris Hemsworth / Benjamin Walker
other title: Heart of the Sea - Le origini di Moby Dick / I havets hjerte
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.
Mary Poppins Returns (2018) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb NeoDB WikiData Skybridge
Mary Poppins Returns
director: Rob Marshall actor: Emily Blunt / Lin-Manuel Miranda
other title: Il ritorno di Mary Poppins / Mary Poppins Vender Tilbage
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.
Queers. (2017) [TV] TMDB
Queers.
actor: Alan Cumming / Ben Whishaw
A series of eight monologues set in the same pub over many years of gay history in response to the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act.
Black Doves (2024) [TV] TMDB IMDb
Black Doves
5.9 (12 ratings) director: Joe Barton actor: Keira Knightley / Ben Whishaw
other title: Palomas negras
When a spy posing as a politician's wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin friend joins her on a quest for truth — and vengeance.
No Time to Die (2021) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData Skybridge Bangumi
No Time to Die
6.7 (16 ratings) director: 凯瑞·福永 actor: Daniel Craig / Léa Seydoux
other title: James Bond: No Time to Die / 007: Sem Tempo para Morrer
Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
The Zero Theorem (2013) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Zero Theorem
other title: The Zero Theorem - Tutto è vanità / O Teorema Zero
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
Little Joe (2019) [Movie] KevGa-NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Little Joe
director: Jessica Hausner actor: Emily Beecham / Ben Whishaw
other title: A Flor da Felicidade / Little Joe - Glück ist ein Geschäft
Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage son Joe, develops a new variety of flower that is supposed to have the ability to make its owner happy thanks to its special chemical properties.
Paddington in Peru (2024) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData TMDB Skybridge
Paddington in Peru
5.7 (16 ratings) director: Dougal Wilson actor: Ben Whishaw / Hugh Bonneville
other title: Paddington in Perù / Paddington i Peru
Paddington travels to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru.
Bluets [Performance] NeoDB Douban
genre: theater playwright: Margaret Perry / Maggie Nelson
director: Katie Mitchell actor: Emma D’Arcy / Kayla Meikle / Ben Whishaw
“Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a colour.”

Bluets is a story about depression and desire, pleasure and pain, and a person possessed by a lifelong obsession with the colour blue. Communing with artists like Joni Mitchell, Derek Jarman, Andy Warhol and Billie Holiday, blue is their constant companion as they navigate the devastating pain of a life-altering heartbreak.

Based on acclaimed author Maggie Nelson’s unique and electrifying book, Bluets is an adaptation by playwright Margaret Perry (Paradise Now!, Porcelain, Collapsible), directed by Katie Mitchell (Little Scratch, Anatomy of a Suicide).

Performed by Emma D’Arcy (House of the Dragon), Kayla Meikle (ear for eye) and Ben Whishaw (Cock, James Bond, This is Going to Hurt, Paddington).

Originally developed at Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg.

*Emma D’Arcy, Kayla Meikle and Ben Whishaw are scheduled to appear in every show.

‘The book that changed my life… it’s just brilliant.’ Sophie Mackintosh, Guardian on Maggie Nelson’s Bluets

‘An arty, smart and gorgeous meditation on the color blue’ Time Out on Maggie Nelson’s Bluets