Ben Whishaw

Benjamin John "Ben" Whishaw is an English actor, voice actor, and producer, who is best known for his stage role as in . He has also starred in many television shows and films, such as Ben Coulter in the drama series , Q in the , and as the voice of the titular character of the 2014 live-action film and its 2017 . He reprised this role as a younger version of the bear character in the 2019 animated series . Additionally, in 2020, he played a lead role as Patrick "Rabbi" Milligan in the fourth season of the FX black comedy crime drama series .
For Disney, he portrayed Ariel in the 2010 Touchstone/Miramax film The Tempest and an adult Michael Banks in Mary Poppins Returns.
Whishaw was born in Clifton, Bedfordshire, and was brought up in neighboring Langford. He is the son of Linda (née Hope), who works in cosmetics, and Jose Whishaw, who works in sports with young people. He has a fraternal twin, James. His mother is of English ancestry, while his father is of French, German, and Russian descent. The family's original surname was not Whishaw but Stellmacher, a German occupational name for a wheelwright. Whishaw's paternal grandfather, born Jean Vladimir Stellmacher and living in Kassel, Germany, changed his name to John Victor Whishaw after World War II, during which he served as a British spy in the German army. Whishaw was a member of the Bancroft Players Youth Theatre at Hitchin's Queen Mother Theatre. He attended Henlow Middle School and then Samuel Whitbread Community College in Clifton. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2003.
==Roles==
Ariel (Ben Whishaw).jpg|Ariel(The Tempest)
Mary Poppins Returns (33).png|Michael Banks(Mary Poppins Returns)
==Gallery==
Ben Whishaw Mary Poppins Returns premiere.jpg|Ben Whishaw at the premiere of Mary Poppins Returns in November 2018.
Ben Winshaw 71st Emmys.jpg|Ben Whishaw poses in the press room at the 71st annual Emmy Awards in September 2019.
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