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Benjamin John Whishaw (born 14 October 1980) is an English actor. He has received various accolades, including three British Academy Television Awards, two Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe. Beginning his career in the 2000s, he played the title role in a 2004 production of the play Hamlet. Television roles followed this in Nathan Barley (2005), Criminal Justice (2008) and The Hour (2011–12); and film roles in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), I'm Not There (2007), Brideshead Revisited (2008), and Bright Star (2009). In 2012, Whishaw played the title role in a BBC Two adaptation of Richard II, for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. The same year, he appeared as Q in the James Bond film Skyfall (2012), going on to reprise the role in Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021). He has voiced Paddington Bear in several projects since Paddington (2014). His other film roles in the 2010s include Cloud Atlas (2012), The Lobster (2015), Suffragette (2015), The Danish Girl (2015), and Mary Poppins Returns (2018). Whishaw had a leading role in London Spy (2015). For his portrayal of Norman Scott in the miniseries A Very English Scandal (2018), he won a BAFTA, a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor. In 2020, he had a leading role in the fourth season of the black comedy drama Fargo. He has since starred in the BBC medical drama series This Is Going to Hurt (2022), the short film Good Boy (2023), and the Netflix spy thriller series Black Doves (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Whishaw, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Deus Ex series is set in a dystopian future where secretive organizations vie for global control amidst rapid technological advancements and societal upheaval. In the prequels, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, players follow Adam Jensen, a security specialist who undergoes mechanical augmentation after a catastrophic attack. Jensen becomes embroiled in conflicts between powerful corporations, the Illuminati, and augmented rights groups, all while confronting ethical dilemmas surrounding human enhancement. The original Deus Ex introduces JC Denton, a nano-augmented agent of UNATCO in 2052, tasked with combating terrorism but soon uncovering conspiracies involving the Gray Death pandemic and factions like Majestic 12. His choices lead to multiple possible outcomes, including the collapse of global communications or merging with an AI to impose a new world order. Deus Ex: Invisible War, set two decades later, features Alex D, a clone of Denton, navigating a world still reeling from previous events, where various factions, including remnants of the Illuminati and a Denton-led group, vie for dominance. Throughout the series, players' decisions critically influence the narrative, exploring themes of control, freedom, and the ethical implications of human augmentation.
