Ben joins the queue for Q

After Peter Burton, Desmond Llewelyn and John Cleese, the ever-busy British star Ben Whishaw is the latest Q in the new James Bond adventure Skyfall, which is set to hit our screens in October.

Whishaw will be seen on TV this month in BBC 2’s Richard II and later this year on the big screen in Cloud Atlas alongside including Tom Hanks, Jim Sturgess and Halle Berry. He will also be seen in the second series of The Hour for the BBC, in which he stars opposite Dominic West and Romola Garai. 

His big breakthrough came in the hugely popular BBC drama Criminal Justice which saw him pick up the award for best actor at the 2009 Royal Television Society Awards, Best Actor at the International Emmy Awards 2009 and was nominated for Best Actor at the 2009 BAFTA Television Awards.

His films include roles in Bright Star, The Tempest, Brideshead Revisited, I’m Not There, Stoned, Layer Cake, Enduring Love, The Trench, Mauvaise Passé, and the lead roles in My Brother Tom and Perfume opposite Alan Rickman and Dustin Hoffman.

Daniel Craig is back as 007 in Skyfall but his loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, Bond must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.