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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.
Jack Torrance, a recovering alcoholic and aspiring writer, takes a job as the off-season caretaker of the isolated Overlook Hotel. He moves into the grand resort for the winter with his wife, Wendy, and their young son, Danny. Danny possesses "the shining," a powerful psychic ability that allows him to see the horrific ghosts and dark secrets embedded in the hotel's bloody history. As a brutal winter storm traps the family inside and cuts them off from the outside world, the hotel's malevolent supernatural forces begin to feast on Jack’s vulnerabilities, slowly driving him into a state of violent insanity.Wendy is forced to protect her son as Jack completely unravels, transforming from a desperate father into a bloodthirsty monster. Danny must use his supernatural gift to survive the haunting visions and the real-world terror roaming the corridors. The story builds to a chilling climax where the family must escape the frozen labyrinth of the Overlook before Jack's madness consumes them all. It is a masterpiece of psychological horror that explores how isolation can unleash the monsters hidden deep within the human mind.
