Unlike his twin brother, James Whishaw, Ben Whishaw is famous for being an English actor and producer. He is also known for being the wife/husband to Mark Bradshaw. They are gay couples who married in 2012 and divorced in 2022.
James Whishaw is the twin brother of Ben Whishaw. James’s sexual orientation is unknown. Also, details about his personal life are not available for now.
Benjamin John Whishaw best known as Ben Whishaw is an English actor and producer Born on October 14, 1980.
Benjamin John Whishaw, best known as Ben Whishaw, is an English actor and producer. He was born on October 14, 1980.
Whishaw was raised in Clifton, Bedfordshire, a nearby town of Langford, where he was born. He is the son of Jose Whishaw, a youth sports professional, and Linda (née Hope), a cosmetics worker. James is his fraternal twin.
His father is of French, German, and Russian ancestry, while his mother is English.
The name Stellmacher, which is a German occupational name for a wheelwright, was the family’s original surname rather than Whishaw.
Jean Vladimir Stellmacher, Whishaw’s great-grandfather, was born in Kassel, Germany.
He changed his identity to John Victor Whishaw after serving as a British spy in the German army during World War II. He was born to a German father and a Russian mother in Istanbul in 1922.
Whishaw was a part of the Queen Mother Theatre in Hitchin’s Bancroft Players Youth Theatre. He first attended Samuel Whitbread Community College in Clifton after graduating from Henlow Middle School. In 2003, he received his diploma from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
