Benjamin John Whishaw (born 14 October 1980) is an English actor. He has played on stage Hamlet; on television Nathan Barley, Criminal Justice, The Hour and London Spy; film roles including Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), I'm Not There (2007), Bright Star (2009), Brideshead Revisited (2008), Cloud Atlas (2012), The Lobster (2015), Suffragette (2015) and The Danish Girl (2015). He played Q in the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015). He voiced Paddington Bear in Paddington (2014) and Paddington 2 (2017).