Benedict Cumberbatch
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 19, 1976 (age 50)
- Birthplace
- Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Biography
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born July 19, 1976) is an English actor. Known for his roles on the screen and stage, he has received various accolades throughout his career, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a British Academy Television Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award. Cumberbatch won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for Frankenstein and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for Sherlock. His performances in the dramas The Imitation Game (2014) and The Power of the Dog (2021) earned him nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award, all for Best Actor in a Leading Role. For playing the title role in five-part drama miniseries Patrick Melrose, he won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. In 2014 Time magazine included him in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2015 he was appointed a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2015 Birthday Honours for services to the performing arts and to charity. A graduate of the Victoria University of Manchester, Cumberbatch continued his training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, obtaining a Master of Arts in Classical Acting. He first performed at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park in Shakespearean productions and made his West End debut in Richard Eyre's revival of Hedda Gabler in 2005. Since then, he has starred in the Royal National Theatre productions After the Dance (2010) and Frankenstein (2011). In 2015, he played the title role in Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre. Cumberbatch's television work includes his performance as Stephen Hawking in the television film Hawking in 2004. He gained worldwide recognition for his performance as Sherlock Holmes in the BBC series Sherlock from 2010 to 2017. He has also headlined Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Parade's End (2012), The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses (2016), Patrick Melrose (2018), and Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019). In films, Cumberbatch has starred in Amazing Grace (2006) as William Pitt the Younger, Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) as Khan, 12 Years a Slave (2013) as William Prince Ford, The Fifth Estate (2013) as Julian Assange, and The Imitation Game (2014) as Alan Turing. He also acted in the historical dramas The Current War (2017), 1917 (2019) and The Courier (2020), and received critical acclaim for his performance in Jane Campion's Western drama The Power of the Dog (2021). From 2012 to 2014, through voice and motion capture, he played the characters of Smaug and Sauron in The Hobbit film series. Cumberbatch portrays Dr. Stephen Strange in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films, beginning with Doctor Strange (2016), and also voiced the character in the animated series What If...? (2021).
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Filmography
Blood on Snow
Movie · as The Fisherman
Morning
Movie · as Frank
Last Flight
Movie · as Kirk Wallace Johnson
Untitled Doctor Strange Movie
Movie · as Doctor Stephen Strange
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
TV · as Self - Presenter · 1 ep
Wife & Dog
Movie
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
Movie · as Self
Confessions II – The Film
Movie · as Self
How to Live on Earth
Movie · as Self
Mog's Bad Thing
Movie · as Mr. Thomas (voice)
VisionQuest
TV · as Defender Strange (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1 ep
The Thing with Feathers
Movie · as Dad
The Roses
Movie · as Theo Rose
The Phoenician Scheme
Movie · as Uncle Nubar
Together for Palestine
Movie · as Self
Tilda Swinton: The Wildcards
Movie · as Self
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Book of Clarence
Movie · as Benjamin
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Movie · as Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage)
Placebo: This Search for Meaning
Movie · as Self
Eric
TV · as Vincent · 6 eps
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Movie · as Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist
Mog's Christmas
Movie · as Mr. Thomas (voice)
Poison
Movie · as Harry Pope
The End We Start From
Movie · as AB
Arctic: Our Frozen Planet
Movie · as Narrator
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog
Movie
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Minions & More Volume 1
Movie · as The Grinch (voice)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Movie · as Self - Doctor Stephen Strange
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Movie · as Doctor Stephen Strange
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Movie · as Daddy (voice)
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Super/Natural
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 6 eps
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
Movie · as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage)
The Power of the Dog
Movie · as Phil Burbank
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Movie · as Louis Wain
The Mauritanian
Movie · as Lt. Stuart Couch
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Movie · as Doctor Strange
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
Movie
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
Movie · as Self
What If...?
TV · as Doctor Strange (voice), Doctor Strange / Strange Supreme (voice), Doctor Strange / Strange-Supreme (voice), Strange Supreme / Demon Strange (voice) · 3 eps
Marvel Studios Legends
TV · as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (archive footage) (uncredited) · 2 eps
The Courier
Movie · as Greville Wynne
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
Movie · as Self
Antarctica
Movie · as Self - Narrator
Cindy-Lou's Yule Log
Movie · as The Grinch
The Dog Days of Winter
Movie · as The Grinch (voice)
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Movie · as Dominic Cummings
1917
Movie · as Colonel MacKenzie
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Movie · as Benedict Cumberbatch
Avengers: Endgame
Movie · as Doctor Strange
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Good Omens
TV · as Satan (voice) · 1 ep
The Grinch
Movie · as The Grinch (voice)
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
Movie · as Shere Khan (voice)
The Current War
Movie · as Thomas Edison
The Child in Time
Movie · as Stephen Lewis
Avengers: Infinity War
Movie · as Doctor Strange
Patrick Melrose
TV · as Patrick Melrose · 5 eps
Thor: Ragnarok
Movie · as Doctor Strange
Walk with Me
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Zoolander 2
Movie · as All
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Movie · as Sherlock Holmes
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Movie · as Self - Performer
Naples '44
Movie · as Norman Lewis (voice)
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Movie · as Himself
Doctor Strange
Movie · as Dr. Stephen Strange
Black Mass
Movie · as Billy Bulger
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Movie · as Hamlet
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Movie · as Smaug / Sauron (voice)
The Imitation Game
Movie · as Alan Turing
Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
Movie · as Narrator
Unlocking Sherlock
Movie · as Himself / Sherlock Holmes
Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D
Movie · as Narrator (Voice)
Penguins of Madagascar
Movie · as Classified (voice)
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
Movie · as Agent Classified (voice)
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
Movie · as Self
9 Kisses
Movie · as Man at Costume Party
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV · as Self - Guest · 3 eps
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
Movie · as Sherlock Holmes
Star Trek Into Darkness
Movie · as Khan
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Movie · as Smaug / Sauron
12 Years a Slave
Movie · as William Ford
August: Osage County
Movie · as Little Charles Aiken
The Fifth Estate
Movie · as Julian Assange
Little Favour
Movie · as Wallace
Jerusalem
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Movie · as Rosencrantz
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Movie · as Necromancer
Girlfriend in a Coma
Movie · as Dante (voice)
Sherlock: Uncovered
Movie · as Sherlock, Self
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
Movie · as Self / Frankenstein / The Monster
The Dreams of William Golding
Movie · as Reader
Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 3 eps
Parade's End
TV · as Christopher Tietjens · 5 eps
WWI's Tunnels of Death: The Big Dig
TV · as Narrator (Voice) · 2 eps
The Hollow Crown
TV · as Richard, Richard III · 1 ep
Why did you come to Japan?
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Movie · as Peter Guillam
War Horse
Movie · as Maj. Jamie Stewart
Wreckers
Movie · as David
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
Movie · as The Creature / Victor Frankenstein
The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch
Movie
The Jonathan Ross Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Four Lions
Movie · as Negotiator
The Whistleblower
Movie · as Nick Kaufman
Third Star
Movie · as James
Burlesque Fairytales
Movie · as Henry Clark
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Movie · as Vincent Van Gogh
Unlocking Sherlock
Movie · as Himself
Sherlock
TV · as Sherlock Holmes · 12 eps
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
TV · as Stephen Hawking · 3 eps
Conan
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Creation
Movie · as Joseph Dalton Hooker
The Turning Point
Movie · as Guy Burgess
Small Island
TV · as Bernard · 2 eps
South Pacific
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 6 eps
The Other Boleyn Girl
Movie · as William Carey
The Last Enemy
TV · as Stephen Ezard · 5 eps
Atonement
Movie · as Paul Marshall
Amazing Grace
Movie · as William Pitt
Stuart: A Life Backwards
Movie · as Alexander Masters
Inseparable
Movie · as Joe / Charlie
The Graham Norton Show
TV · as Self, Self - Guest · 8 eps
Starter for 10
Movie · as Patrick Watts
The One Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Man Who Predicted 9/11
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Broken News
TV · as Will Parker · 6 eps
To the Ends of the Earth
TV · as Edmund Talbot · 3 eps
Nathan Barley
TV · as Robin · 2 eps
The Colbert Report
TV · as Smaug (voice) · 1 ep
Hawking
Movie · as Stephen Hawking
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV · as Luke Fitzwilliam · 1 ep
Dunkirk
TV · as Lt Jimmy Langley · 3 eps
To Kill a King
Movie · as Royalist
Fortysomething
TV · as Rory Slippery · 6 eps
Cambridge Spies
TV · as Edward Hand · 1 ep
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV · as Self - Guest · 7 eps
Fields of Gold
Movie · as Jeremy
Hills Like White Elephants
Movie · as The Man
Spooks
TV · as Jim North · 1 ep
Tipping the Velvet
TV · as Freddy · 1 ep
Timeshift
TV · as self · 1 ep
Top Gear
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Leute heute
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The View
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Glastonbury
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Silent Witness
TV · as Warren Reid · 2 eps
The Daily Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
GMTV
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Heartbeat
TV · as Toby Fisher, Charles · 1 ep
Have I Got News for You
TV · as Self - Host · 1 ep
The Simpsons
TV · as Severus Snape / Prime Minister (voice), Quilloughby (voice) · 1 ep
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The South Bank Show
TV · 1 ep
Saturday Night Live
TV · as Self - Host, Self - Cameo (uncredited) · 2 eps
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 1 ep