1976-07-19 London, England, UK
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 1976) is an English actor. 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. His television work includes appearances in Silent Witness (2002) and Fortysomething (2003) before playing Stephen Hawking in the television film Hawking (2004). He has starred as Sherlock Holmes in the series Sherlock since 2010. He has also headlined Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Parade's End (2012), The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses (2016), and Patrick Melrose (2018). In the film, he has starred in Amazing Grace (2006), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), 12 Years a Slave (2013), The Fifth Estate (2013), and The Imitation Game (2014). He also made a brief appearance in 1917 (2019). From 2012 to 2014, through voice and motion capture, he played the characters of Smaug and the Necromancer in The Hobbit film series. In superhero films set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he has played Dr. Stephen Strange in Doctor Strange (2016), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019). He has received numerous accolades, including the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for Frankenstein, and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Sherlock. His performance in The Imitation Game earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. In 2015, he was appointed a CBE in the 2015 Birthday Honours for services to the performing arts and to charity. The description above is from the Wikipedia article Benedict Cumberbatch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dungeons & Dragons | 2023-03-01 | |
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange | 2022-05-04 |
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The Power of the Dog | Phil Burbank | 2021-09-13 |
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The Courier | Greville Wynne | 2021-03-18 |
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Gypsy Boy | 2021-12-31 | |
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Antarctica | Narrator | 2021-05-17 |
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Sleep Sound - The Legend of Drizzt Animated Short | 2021-05-20 | |
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The Mauritanian | Lt. Stuart Couch | 2021-02-10 |
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Spider-Man: No Way Home | Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange | 2021-12-15 |
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Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall | 2021-03-15 | |
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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Louis Wain | 2021-10-21 |
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Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special | Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage) | 2021-11-12 |
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Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel | Self | 2021-03-22 |
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Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King | Self | 2020-08-30 |
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The Tiger Who Came to Tea | Daddy (voice) | 2019-12-24 |
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Brexit: The Uncivil War | Dominic Cummings | 2019-01-19 |
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Between Two Ferns: The Movie | Benedict Cumberbatch | 2019-09-20 |
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1917 | Colonel MacKenzie | 2019-12-25 |
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Avengers: Endgame | Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange | 2019-04-24 |
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The Child in Time | Stephen Lewis | 2018-07-05 |
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Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle | Shere Khan | 2018-11-25 |
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The Grinch Mini-Movies | Grinch (voix) | 2018-11-22 |
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The Grinch | Grinch (voice) | 2018-11-08 |
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Avengers: Infinity War | Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange | 2018-04-25 |
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Walk with Me | Narrator | 2017-05-11 |
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Thor: Ragnarok | Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange | 2017-10-25 |
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The Current War | Thomas Edison | 2017-09-13 |
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Magik | Lewis | 2016-12-25 |
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Zoolander 2 | All | 2016-02-06 |
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Doctor Strange | Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange | 2016-10-25 |
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Sherlock: The Abominable Bride | Sherlock Holmes | 2016-01-01 |
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Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | 2016-04-23 | |
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Naples '44 | Norman Lewis | 2016-12-15 |
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Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock | Himself | 2016-01-11 |
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National Theatre Live: Hamlet | Hamlet | 2015-10-15 |
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Black Mass | Billy Bulger | 2015-09-04 |
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Penguins of Madagascar | Classified (voice) | 2014-11-22 |
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The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue | Agent Classified | 2014-07-22 |
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Smaug / Necromancer (voice) | 2014-12-10 |
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9 Kisses | Man at Costume Party | 2014-12-11 |
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The Imitation Game | Alan Turing | 2014-11-14 |
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Unlocking Sherlock | Himself / Sherlock Holmes | 2014-01-19 |
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Star Trek Into Darkness | Khan Noonien Singh | 2013-05-05 |
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Jerusalem | Narrator (voice) | 2013-11-16 |
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Little Favour | Wallace | 2013-11-05 |
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12 Years a Slave | William Ford | 2013-10-18 |
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National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Rosencrantz | 2013-11-02 |
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Smaug / Necromancer | 2013-12-11 |
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The Fifth Estate | Julian Assange | 2013-10-11 |
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Solar Superstorms | Narrator | 2013-02-15 |
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Walking with Dinosaurs | narration | 2013-12-18 |
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August: Osage County | Little Charles Aiken | 2013-12-26 |
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Necromancer | 2012-11-26 |
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Frankenstein: A Modern Myth | Self / Frankenstein / The Monster | 2012-10-31 |
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Parade's End | Christopher Tietjens | 2012-08-24 |
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War Horse | Maj. Jamie Stewart | 2011-12-25 |
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Wreckers | David | 2011-12-16 |
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National Theatre Live: Frankenstein | The Creature / Victor Frankenstein | 2011-03-17 |
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Peter Guillam | 2011-09-16 |
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Unlocking Sherlock | Himself | 2010-08-30 |
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Third Star | James | 2010-06-01 |
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Van Gogh: Painted with Words | Vincent Van Gogh | 2010-04-05 |
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Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking | Stephen Hawking | 2010-02-05 |
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Four Lions | The Negotiator | 2010-05-07 |
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Burlesque Fairytales | Henry Clark | 2010-01-01 |
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The Whistleblower | Nick Kaufman | 2010-09-13 |
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The Turning Point | Guy Burgess | 2009-08-12 |
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Creation | Joseph Dalton Hooker | 2009-09-25 |
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The Other Boleyn Girl | William Carey | 2008-02-28 |
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Stuart: A Life Backwards | Alexander Masters | 2007-09-23 |
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Inseparable | Joe / Charlie | 2007-01-01 |
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Atonement | Paul Marshall | 2007-09-07 |
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Starter for 10 | Patrick Watts | 2006-09-13 |
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Amazing Grace | William Pitt | 2006-09-16 |
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The Man Who Predicted 9/11 | Narrator (voice) | 2005-09-05 |
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Hawking | Stephen Hawking | 2004-12-10 |
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To Kill a King | Royalist | 2003-05-16 |
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Hills like white elephants | The Man | 2002-06-01 |
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Fields of Gold | Jeremy | 2002-06-08 |
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Tipping the Velvet | Freddy | 2002-10-22 |
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How to Stop Time | Tom Hazard | |
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The War Magician | Jasper Maskelyne | |
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