Benjamin John Weeshaw

Ben Weeshaw - British actor, whose worldwide popularity brought the main role in the drama "Perfumer: The Story of one killer." He is known for other works: he played Agent Yu in the popular series of spy blockbusters about James Bond and the end-to-end role of Robert Frobisher in the novels of the experimental drama "Cloud Atlas", an adaptation of the eponymous book bestseller.

On October 14, 1980, Linda and Joseph Wishaw's twin sons, Benjamin and James, were born. One of them was destined to become a movie star. The childhood of one of the best, according to the site IMDB, the actors of the generation passed in Bedfordshire (UK). My mother worked as a beautician, my father was engaged in information technology. Both had little to do with art.

Nevertheless, my mother from the age of 2 dressed Ben in bright stage costumes, and the boy liked it. In one interview, Weeshaw recalled reviewing children's photos at Easter: there is none of them where he is in plain clothes. The actor says that already in infancy he subconsciously wanted to be different from others.

At school, Ben studied unenthusiastically. He was more interested in the drama club, which he visited. On the amateur stage, the passion for reincarnation and the craving for dressing up were fully manifested.

After high school, Weeshaw went to college and went on to attend a drama studio that worked at the Theatre of the Queen Elizabeth. At that time, the guy became a member of the youth troupe "Big Spirit" and participated in most of its productions. The most significant for him was the role in the play about the prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp. In 1995, the project was presented at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival. The production was praised by critics and theatergoers.

After graduating from college, Ben Weeshaw moved to London, where he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts. In 2003, he became a certified actor.

The actor's creative biography began at the age of 17. These were minor roles in Escort with Barbara Flynn and "In July 1916: The Battle of the Somme" with Cillian Murphy and Daniel Craig. Both films appeared on the screens two years later, in 1999.

Then followed the roles in the TV series "Children of other people," "Black Taxi." In 2001, Ben appeared in the short film Child. In the same year, he introduced the main character in my brother Tom. For his role as a simple-minded eccentric, Weshaw won the British Independent Film Award, the Audience Choice Award for film screening in Angers and the title of Best Actor at the Sochi International Film Festival. The jury called the debut of the artist in the big cinema promising.

In 2004, the drama "Trial of Love" ("Enduring Love") was released, and again - working with Craig, as well as with Samantha Morton and Bill Nyi. The "Puff Cake" crime tape gave Weeshaw another meeting with the future agent of 007, Tom Hardy and Sinna Miller. Soon Ben was invited to play in the film "In the Dopeman", which tells the story of the life of Brian Jones. The actor was offered the role of musician Keith Richards.

In 2006, there was a casting in the film "Perfumer: The Story of one killer" based on the novel by Patrick Suskind. Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Leonardo DiCaprio auditioned for the title role, but ben Weeshaw was confirmed. After the premiere of the film about the creator of spirits from human bodies about the actor learned the whole world. This role earned him nominations for the European Film Awards and the Online Film and Television Association, the Bambi Awards.

In "I'm Not There," Ben played a young Bob Dylan. The film won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor. Weeshaw starred alongside Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

In 2008, the mini-series "Criminal Justice" was released, in which the actor played a young man, unjustifiably accused of a serious crime. Ben managed to accurately convey a whole range of emotions of his hero, to convey the character to each viewer. This role earned him several awards, including an international Emmy Award.

The bright star melodrama is a tribute to the poet John Keats, whose works were admired by Victorian Britain. Ben has a major role in the film. Interesting in his variety of characters got him in the political thriller "International", the series "The Hour", the drama "All the signs of death." A remake of the television series "Return to Brideshead" is probably the first project in the actor's filmography, having something in common with his personal life: The character Of Weeshaw - homosexual.

The theme of same-sex relationships is also raised in the play "Cock" staged on the stage of the Royal Court Theatre. Ben Weeshaw and Andrew Scott played a pair in which the feelings are tested for strength by the acquaintance of one of them with a girl. The performance was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award, and Witheau was later compared to his famous compatriot.

The film "The Danish Girl" also spoke about gender self-determination, which brought the Oscar-winning role to the wife of the main character Alicia Vikander. Ben and Amber Heard got secondary characters.

In 2012, the actor appeared in the spy thriller "007: Skyfall Coordinates." In the james Bond film series, Ben is reincarnated as an agent with the code name Yu (Kew), head of the Research Center of the British Secret Service Mi-6. This character, regularly supplying Bond with technical innovations and ingenious devices, appeared in the very first official part of the Bondians. Weeshaw became the fourth actor to perform the role, and the first to insist that Yu become a participant in special operations and not sit forever in the bunker.

In the same year, Ben appeared in the cast of the fantastic picture "Cloud Atlas" based on the eponymous book blockbuster David Mitchell. The film consists of a number of separate independent short stories, the action of which takes place in the past, and in the man-made future, and in the post-apocalyptic world.

The novels are combined by the main actors, moving from part to part, and the idea of reincarnation of the soul, which also turns from a fragment into a fragment. At the same time, the novels themselves are broken into parts and intertwined, generating additional meanings and interpretations. In addition to Ben, hugh Grant, Halle Berry, Tom Hanks are involved in the filming.

No less stellar line-up was waiting for the actor in the film adaptation of Chekhov's "The Seagull" called "Days and Nights". Weeshaw worked alongside Jean Reno, Katie Holmes and Allison Janney. "In the Heart of the Sea" is an exciting story of survival of people caught in the middle of the ocean. Benjamin Walker was the captain of the ship that sank after the Sperm Whale attack. Ben played the American writer and traveler Herman Melville, who remarked this event in the famous novel "Mobi Dick".

In 2014, Ben Withshaw's voice appeared in the popular family comedy "The Adventures of Paddington." The actor did not appear on the screen, but gave a voice to the main character - a bear. In the story polite and reasonable Peruvian bear moves to London, where he meets a friendly family and confronts the villain-taxidermis, wanting to get a stuffed rare beast.

In "The Adventures of Paddington 2," released three years later, the bear has already settled into his adopted family and become a neighborhood favorite, but has encountered other problems such as choosing a gift or searching for a stolen book.

Heroes of the series "London Spy" - two men, the relationship between which is more than friendly. Ben's partner in the film was "Kingsman: The Secret Service" star Edward Holcroft. In the story, his character dies for an unknown reason, and the hero Wheshaw tries to understand the complicated case, not realizing that he is drawn into the world of espionage.

In 2016, Wishaw played a supporting role for Dave in the drama Hologramma for the King. The film is based on the plot of the novel of the same name by Pulitzer Prize winner Dave Eggers. The film tells the story of a ruined businessman, who gradually immersed himself in the exotic life of Saudi Arabia and tries to understand the unusual world around him in anticipation of an audience with the king of the country, who wants to sell new technology.

In the historical drama about the struggle of feminists in the early 20th century "Suffragette" Ben played the cruel husband of the heroine Carey Mulligan, who does not understand the desire of women to assert their rights.

For his work in the arthouse comedy "Lobster" the actor is once again nominated for the British Independent Film Awards. The heroes of this picture face the transformation into animals if they do not find a couple within a month. Weeshaw lamented that the directors do not see him as anything fun, not called in comedy, but he is so close to black humor. So he gladly agreed to shoot:

In 2018, Ben Withshaw played the role of Michael Banks, the father of the family, who lived in London at the height of the Depression, in the family fantasy musical Mary Poppins Returns. The film repeats the famous story about a mysterious nanny, whose unique approach to raising children helps to return happiness to the family and make everyone believe in miracles again.

London's The Bridge Theatre presented to the public an original reading of Shakespeare's tragedy "Julius Caesar." Weeshaw played the role of Senator Brutus. The conspirator has four times more text than the titular character. And the play's central psychological drama focuses on Brutus's struggles between the conflicting demands of honor, patriotism and friendship. The entourage of the performance is also unusual, modern, inherent in the political actions of demonstrators in the streets.

The actor does not hide his sexual orientation, made a come-out and openly admitted that he is gay. Some film critics thought it helped Wheshaw get a lead role in Bohemian Rhapsody, a biopic about the band's lead singer Freddie Mercury, who also did not secretly keep relationships with men. But in the end, the film starred Rami Malek.

In 2012, Ben Weeshaw and Australian composer Mark Bradshaw celebrated not just a wedding, but a civil partnership. Under UK law, this means that marriage is registered at City Hall, but is not consecrated in the church. The pair met in 2009, when the film "Bright Star" was being filmed. Now the actor and her husband live in London.

Free from filming Ben devotes his many hobbies. He loves to work in the garden, dances and paints well, reads books, travels with pleasure, sings. The actor has an operatic voice. Another passion of the star - cats. There were times when Weeshaw gave shelter to 10-15 animals.

Ben is not hiding from the press and fans, but is not known for excessive openness and publicity. Only a fan account under the name Ofshaw is registered on Instagram, and the actor does not state his presence on other social networks.

December 2019 marked the premiere of The Personal Story of David Copperfield, an adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel about an orphan who overcame life's challenges and lost out into the people. Along with Ben Weeshaw as the main antagonist in the film starred Gwendolyn Christie, Tilda Swinton, Dev Patel.

Another new project with the participation of the star - the fantastic drama "Little Joe", which refers to a genetically modified plant, whose fruits strangely affect people.

The Bond 25 Anniversary Series, which is announced for April 2020, will certainly not be without techie Kew performed by Weeshaw.

The actor won a Golden Globe for his role as the lover of the leader of the Liberal Party of Great Britain in the television series "Very English Scandal". The plot is based on a story from the 70s about the organization of the leader of the British Liberals murder of a man who threatened to make public their homosexual relationship.

2004 - "The Trial of Love"

2005 - "In the Dope"

2006 - Perfumer: The Story of a Single Killer

2007 - "I'm Not There"

2009 - Bright Star

2010 - "The Tempest"

2012 - "007: Skyfall Coordinates"

2013 - "Days and Nights"

2015 - "In the Heart of the Sea"

2015 - "007: Spectre"

2015 - Lobster

2016 - "Hologramma for the King"

2018 - "Very English Scandal"

2019 - "David Copperfield's Personal Story"

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