Cast
Benedict Cumberbatch
Acting
Cast
Benedict Cumberbatch
Known for
Acting
Born
1976-07-19
From
Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Also known as Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch
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).
Avengers: Infinity War
as Doctor Strange
Spider-Man: No Way Home
as Doctor Strange
Avengers: Endgame
as Doctor Strange
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Smaug / Sauron (voice)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
as Doctor Stephen Strange
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
as Necromancer
Thor: Ragnarok
as Doctor Strange
The Imitation Game
as Alan Turing
Doctor Strange
as Dr. Stephen Strange
Penguins of Madagascar
as Classified (voice)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
as Smaug / Sauron
1917
as Colonel MacKenzie
Atonement
as Paul Marshall
The Grinch
as Grinch (voice)
Star Trek Into Darkness
as John Harrison / Khan
12 Years a Slave
as William Ford
The Phoenician Scheme
as Uncle Nubar
War Horse
as Maj. Jamie Stewart
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
as Shere Khan (voice)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
as Peter Guillam
Black Mass
as Billy Bulger
Zoolander 2
as All
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
as Sherlock Holmes
The Roses
as Theo Rose
Minions & More Volume 1
as The Grinch (voice)
The Other Boleyn Girl
as William Carey
The Power of the Dog
as Phil Burbank
The Mauritanian
as Lt. Stuart Couch
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
as Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist
The Courier
as Greville Wynne
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
as Louis Wain
The Fifth Estate
as Julian Assange
August: Osage County
as Little Charles Aiken
The Current War
as Thomas Edison
Amazing Grace
as William Pitt
Wife & Dog
The Whistleblower
as Nick Kaufman
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
as Benedict Cumberbatch
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
as Self - Doctor Stephen Strange
Third Star
as James
Four Lions
as Negotiator
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
as Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage)
Poison
as Harry Pope
Creation
as Joseph Dalton Hooker
Brexit: The Uncivil War
as Dominic Cummings
Starter for 10
as Patrick Watts
Stuart: A Life Backwards
as Alexander Masters
The End We Start From
as AB
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage)
The Book of Clarence
as Benjamin
The Thing with Feathers
as Dad
Burlesque Fairytales
as Henry Clark
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
as Agent Classified (voice)
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
as The Creature / Victor Frankenstein
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
as Self
Hawking
as Stephen Hawking
Inseparable
as Joe / Charlie
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
as Self
Blood on Snow
as The Fisherman
Wreckers
as David
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
as Rosencrantz
To Kill a King
as Royalist
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
as Self
The Child in Time
as Stephen Lewis
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Self - Performer
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
as Hamlet
Naples '44
as Norman Lewis (voice)
Mog's Christmas
as Mr. Thomas (voice)
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
The Dog Days of Winter
as The Grinch (voice)
Walk with Me
as Narrator (voice)
Fields of Gold
as Jeremy
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
as Self / Frankenstein / The Monster
The Turning Point
as Guy Burgess
9 Kisses
as Man at Costume Party
Unlocking Sherlock
as Himself / Sherlock Holmes
Antarctica
as Self - Narrator
Little Favour
as Wallace
Last Flight
as Kirk Wallace Johnson
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion
as Self (archive footage)
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
as Self (archive footage)
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
as Vincent Van Gogh
Jerusalem
as Narrator (voice)
Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D
as Narrator (Voice)
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
as Daddy (voice)
Morning
as Frank
Girlfriend in a Coma
as Dante (voice)
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
as Sherlock Holmes
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
as Himself
Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
as Narrator
Arctic: Our Frozen Planet
as Narrator
Together for Palestine
as Self
Placebo: This Search for Meaning
as Self
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
as Self
The Man Who Predicted 9/11
as Narrator (voice)
Hills Like White Elephants
as The Man
神探夏洛克：最后的誓言
Sherlock: Uncovered
as Sherlock, Self
The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch
Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog
Unlocking Sherlock
as Himself
The Dreams of William Golding
as Reader
Cindy-Lou's Yule Log
as The Grinch