Age: 45
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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.
Ben Whishaw
Pierre Gringoire
for Pierre Gringoire in The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
Suggested by themegacaster
When Frollo slays some Gypsies on the steps of Notre Dame, he finds a deformed baby and attempts to drown him, but under the persuasion of the Archbishop, he ends up taking in the orphaned child out of guilt, and because this child is deformed and locks him up in the bell tower at the top of Notre Dame, where he spends most of his life. But the child, named Quasimodo (meaning “half-formed”) wishes to be free among the people of Paris, and gets his chance when his friends, three gargoyles named Victor, Hugo, and Laverne, encourage him to go down without Frollo noticing and go down to be part of the Festival Of Fools. There he meets Esmeralda, a beautiful Gypsy girl who frees him when the crowd nearly hangs him for being an outsider. At the same time, Frollo attempts to hunt Esmeralda down and make her his and exterminate the Gypsies, even going as far as planning to burn down all of Paris.
