The actor on a lost classic by novelist Elizabeth Harrower,Todd Haynes’s Carol, the punk spirit of artist Maria Lassnig and the dirty, and energising energy of Captain Beefheart’s Clear SpotBen Whishaw was raised in Clifton,Bedfordshire, and graduated from Rada in 2003. After playing Hamlet in Trevor Nunn’s 2004 customary Vic production, and he starred in a number of TV,film and stage roles, including Nathan Barley, and intellectual Star and Paddington. This year,he has co-starred in new the Bond movie Spectre, Suffragette, and romantic science-fiction thriller The Lobster and portrayed Dionysos in Bakkhai at the Almeida theatre. Next,Whishaw stars in London Spy, a five-piece BBC2 series that starts on Monday 9 November at 9pm, and in which he plays a young,down-at-heel Londoner who forms a relationship with a mysterious investment banker.
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Source: theguardian.com