Biography
Ben Wehow - British actor, the world's popular popularity brought the main role in the Drama "Perfumer: The Story of one killer." He is also known to other works: Agent Q was played in a popular series of spy blockbusters about James Bond and through the role of Robert Froobisher in themelles of the Drama of the Experimental Format "Cloud Atlas", the screening of the book bestseller.Childhood and youth
On October 14, 1980, in the family of Linda and Joseph Wischow, Bendjamin and James Sons were born. One of them was destined to become a movie star. The childhood of one of the best, according to the IMDB website, the generation actors were held in Bedfordshire (United Kingdom). Mother worked as a beautician, his father was engaged in information technology. Both had little in common with art.
Nevertheless, mom from 2 years old dressed up Ben in bright scenic costumes, and she liked the boy. In one interview, Wisow remembered how children's photos revised: among them there is not one where he is in ordinary clothes. The actor says that in infancy subconsciously wanted to differ from others.
In school, Ben studied without enthusiasm. He was more fascinated by the drama, which he visited. On the amateur scene, the passion for reincarnations and thrust for dressing was manifested to the fullest.
After school, the Weeshow entered the college and continued to attend a dramatic studio who worked at the Queen Elizabeth theater. In that period, the guy became a participant in the youth troupe "Big Spirit" and participated in most of its productions. The most significant for him was the role in the performance about the prisoners of the concentration camp of Auschwitz. In 1995, this project is presented at the International Theater Festival in Edinburgh. Study praised and criticism, and theater.
After graduating from College, Ben Wisow moved to London, where he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts. In 2003, he became a certified actor.
Films
The creative biography of the actor began in 17 years. These were secondary roles in the paintings "Escort" with Barbara Flynn and "in July 1916: Battle of Somme" with Killian Murphy and Daniel Craig. On the screens both films appeared in 2 years, in 1999.
Then followed the roles in the series "Children of other people", "Black Taxi". In 2001, Ben appeared in the short film "Child." In the same year, he presented the main character in the film "My brother Tom." For the role of an eccentric eccentric, Wisow received a British independent film award, a prize of visual sympathies of filmmot in Angers and the title of "Best Actor" at the Sochi International Film Festival. The jury called the artist's debut in large cinema promising.
In 2004, the drama "Test Love" ("impatient love") was published, and again - work with Craig, as well as with Samantha Morton and Bill Naia. The Criminal Tape "Puff Cake" presented the Wisow another meeting with the future agent 007, Tom Hardy and a strong Miller. Soon, Ben was invited to play in the painting "in Donmaan", telling about the life of Brian Jones. The actor was offered the role of the musician Kit Richards.
In 2006, a casting was held in the film "Perfume: the story of one killer" on the novel of Patrick Zyuskinda. Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Leonardo Di Caprio, were tried to mainly on the main role. After the premiere of the picture about the creator of spirits from human bodies, the whole world learned about the actor. This role brought him nominations for the prizes of European Film Awards and Online Film & Television Association, Bambi Awards Award.
In Bayopic "I am not there" Ben played young Bob Dilan. The film was awarded the "Independent Spirit" premium for the best cast. Wishow starred with Kate Blanchett, Christian Bail, Richard Girome, Hit Ledder and Charlotte Gensbar.
In 2008, the mini-series "Criminal Justice" was released on the screens, in which the actor played the young man, unreasonably accused of a gravital crime. Ben managed to accurately convey a whole range of emotions of his hero, to convey character to each viewer. This role brought him several awards, including the international AMMI.
Melodrama "Bright Star" - Dedication to the poet John Kitsu, whose works admired Victorian Britain. In Ben in the painting the main role. Interesting characters in their diverseness got him in the political thriller "International", the series "Hour", the drama "All signs of death". The remake of the television series "Return to Braidshead", perhaps the first project in the filmography of the actor, having something in common with a personal life: the Character of the Wishow is a homosexual.
The theme of same-sex relationships rises in the "COCK" play, put on the stage of the Royal Court theater. Ben Wischow and Andrew Scott played a pair, in which the feelings are tested on the strength of the acquaintance of one of them with a girl. The performance was marked by the Lawrence of Olivier Prize, and the Wisow later began to compare with the famous compatriot.
The picture "Girl from Denmark" was also told about gender self-determination, which brought the "Oscar" executive officer of the role of his wife's head hero of Alisia Vicander. Beno and Amber Hörd got secondary characters.
In 2012, the actor appeared in the spy fighter "007: Skyfall coordinates." In the film from a series of pictures about James Bond Ben reincarnated in an agent with the code name Q (Kew), the head of the British Secret Service of the MI-6. This character, regularly supplying Bond by technical innovations and ingenious devices, appeared in the very first official part of the bondian. Wishow became the fourth actor who performed this role, and the first to be informed that Q became a member of the special operation and was not sitting forever in the bunker.
In the same year, Ben appeared in the caste of the fantastic picture of the "Cloud Atlas" based on the same name of the book blockbuster David Mitchell. The film consists of a number of individual independent novel, the action of which occurs in the past, and in the man-made future, and in the postpocalyptic world.
Novels are combined by playing the main roles with actors passing from the part to the part, and the idea of reincarnation of the soul, also turning out of a fragment into a fragment. At the same time, the Novels themselves are broken into parts and intertwined, generating additional meanings and interpretation. In addition to Ben, Hugh Grant, Halley Berry, Tom Hanks are involved in the filming.
No less star composition was waiting for an actor in the screening of Chekhov "Seagull" called "Days and Nights". Wisow worked next to Jean Renault, Katie Holmes and Ellison Jenny. "In the heart of the sea" - an exciting history of the survival of people, found by the ocean. In the role of the captain of the ship, sunken after the kashlot attack, Benjamin Walker spoke. Ben played American writer and traveler Herman Melville, who reflected this event in the famous novel Mobi Dick.
In 2014, Ben Wisow's voice sounded in a popular family comedy "Adventures of Paddington". The actor did not appear on the screen, but gave the voice to the main hero - a bear. According to the plot, polite and intelligent Peruvian bear came into London, where he gets acquainted with a friendly family and confronts the villain-taxidermist who wants to obtain a rare beast scarecrow.
In the "Adventures of Paddington - 2, who came out in 3 years, the bear was already born in his family shelter and became a favorite of the districts, but faced other problems like choosing a gift or a search for a stolen book.
The heroes of the series "London Spy" - two men, the relationship between which is more than friendly. A partner of Ben on the film was the star "Kingsman: Secret Service" Edward Holzroft. According to the plot, his character dies for an unknown reason, and the hero of Wisow is trying to figure out the confused case, not understanding that it is drawn into the world of espionage.
In 2016, Wische performed the secondary role of Dave in the Drama "Hologram for the King". The painting was based on the plot of the same name novel of the laureate of the Pulitzer Prize Dave Eggers. The film tells about the broken businessman who gradually plunges into the exotic life of Saudi Arabia and tries to comprehend the unusual world in anticipation of the audience with the king of the country, who wants to sell new technology.
In the historical drama on the struggle of feminists at the beginning of the 20th century "Sufrazhistka" Ben played the cruel husband of Heroin Cary Mulling, who does not understand the desire of women to defend their rights.
For work in the Arthaus Comedy "Lobster" Actor once again nominated for British Independent Film Awards. The heroes of this painting threaten the transformation in animals if they won't find a couple for a month. Wishow complained that the directors do not see anything fun in it, do not name in comedy, but he is so close to black humor. Because he gladly agreed to shoot:
"Lobster" seems to invite the viewer to think about what he sees, and does not overhears it with his conclusions or thoughts. This is a funny and at the same time very poetic film, surrealisticly beautiful. "
In 2018, Ben Wisow played the role of Michael Banks, the father of the family living in London in the midst of the Depression era, in the family fantasy-musical "Mary Poppins returns." The film repeats the famous plot of the mysterious nurse, whose unique approach to raising children helps to return happiness in the family and make everyone again believe in miracles.
London The Bridge Theater presented to the public to the public of the original reading the Shakespeare tragedy "Julius Caesar". Wiswow performed the role of Senator Bruta. The conspiratorist is 4 times more text than the title character. And the central psychological drama of the play focuses on the struggle between the contradictory requirements of honor, patriotism and friendship. The penetration of the performance is also unusual, modern, inherent in the political shares of demonstrators on the streets.
Personal life
The actor does not hide his sexual orientation, made Caming-Out and openly admitted that he is gay. Some film critics believed that it helped Wisow to receive a major role in the "Bohemian Rhapsodia", the biographical ribbon about the vocalist of the Queen group Freddie Mercury, who also did not hold a relationship with men. But in the end, in the film was shot by Rami Malek.In 2012, Ben Wisow and Composer from Australia Mark Bradschow noted not just a wedding, but the conclusion of civil partnership. According to the laws of Great Britain, this means that the marriage is registered in the city hall, but not consecrated in the church. The couple met in 2009, when the film "Bright Star" was shot. Now the actor and husband live in London.
Free from filming Time Ben devotes to its numerous hobbies. He loves to work in the garden, dances well and writes paintings, reads books, travels with pleasure, sings. At the actor opera voice. Another passion of the stars - cats. There were times when Wisow gave a shelter 10-15 animals.
Ben is not hidden from the press and fans, but is not famous for unnecessary openness and publicity. Only the Fan Account under the name Weeshow is registered in "Instagram", in other social networks, the actor does not indicate its presence.
Ben Wiswow now
December 2019 was marked by the premiere of the film "Personal History of David Copperfield", the adaptation of the Roman Charles Dickens about Syrote, overcoming the life tests and elapsed into people. Together with Benom Wishaw in the role of the main antagonist, Gwendolin Christie, Tilda Suinton, V. Patel was starred in the picture.
Another new project involving the star is a fantastic drama "Little Joe", in which we are talking about a gennometric plant, whose fruits strangely affect people.
The anniversary series of Bondian Bond-25, the release of which is announced for April 2020, of course, will not cost without techow in the performance of Wisow.
For the role of lover of the leader of the Liberal Party of Great Britain in the television series "Very English Scandal" Actor awarded the Golden Globe. The plot is based on the history of the 70s about the organization of the leadership of the British Liberals of the murder of a man who threatened to disclose their homosexual communication.
Filmography
- 2004 - "Testing Love"
- 2005 - "In Durane"
- 2006 - "Perfume: the story of one killer"
- 2007 - "I'm not there"
- 2009 - "Bright Star"
- 2010 - "Storm"
- 2012 - "007: Skyfall coordinates"
- 2013 - "Days and Nights"
- 2015 - "In the Heart of the Sea"
- 2015 - "007: Spectrum"
- 2015 - "Lobster"
- 2016 - "Hologram for the King"
- 2018 - "Very English Scandal"
- 2019 - "Personal Story of David Copperfield"