Ben Whishaw

Benjamin John Whishaw is an English actor. After winning a British Independent Film Award for his performance in My Brother Tom (2001), he was nominated for an Olivier Award for his portrayal of the title role in a 2004 production of Hamlet. This was followed by television roles 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). For Criminal Justice, Whishaw received an International Emmy Award and received his first BAFTA Award nomination.

14 October 1980

Born on the same birth date (14 October 1980): Amjad Khan (cricketer, born 1980) • Niels Lodberg • Paúl Ambrosi • Scott Kooistra • Terrence McGee

Born on the same birth day (14 October): Alan Williams (Swansea West MP) • Alexis Rannit • Bahadur Shah I • Beth Daniel • Byron Edmund Walker • Craig Venter • Ernest Günther I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg • Glenn Maxwell • Hannah Arendt • Jordan Clark (cricketer) • Lesley Joseph • Lin Dan • Natalie Maines • Pat Kelly (infielder) • Philip IV, Count of Nassau-Weilburg • Roger Taylor (tennis) • Steven Thompson (Scottish footballer) • Sumner Welles • Sylvain Lefebvre • Terrence McGee

Born in the same month (October 1980): Abdoulaye Méïté • Amjad Khan (cricketer, born 1980) • Arnaud Coyot • Ben Foster (actor) • Brandon Jay McLaren • Caterina Scorsone • Claire Cooper • Danny O'Donoghue • Henrik Zetterberg • Julie Pomagalski • Ledley King • Lucy Akello • Nick Cannon • Niels Lodberg • Scott Parker • Sonia Sui • Zac Posen