1976-07-19 Hammersmith, London, England, UK
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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The Roses | Theo Rose | 2025-08-27 |
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The Phoenician Scheme | Uncle Nubar | 2025-05-23 |
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The Thing with Feathers | Dad | 2025-10-17 |
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Together for Palestine | Self | 2025-09-17 |
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The Book of Clarence | Benjamin | 2024-01-11 |
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Placebo: This Search for Meaning | Self | 2024-11-28 |
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More | Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage) | 2024-03-14 |
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar | Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist | 2023-09-20 |
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The End We Start From | AB | 2023-12-08 |
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Mog's Christmas | Mr. Thomas (voice) | 2023-12-17 |
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Poison | Harry Pope | 2023-09-29 |
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James Blunt: One Brit Wonder | Self (archive footage) | 2023-12-06 |
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Arctic: Our Frozen Planet | Narrator | 2023-12-01 |
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The Tiger Who Came to Tea | Daddy (voice) | 2022-09-14 |
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Behind the Scenes With Jane Campion | Self (archive footage) | 2022-01-27 |
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Doctor Stephen Strange | 2022-05-04 |
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Minions & More Volume 1 | The Grinch (voice) | 2022-09-27 |
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Self - Doctor Stephen Strange | 2022-07-07 |
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Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog | 2022-01-26 | |
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Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special | Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage) | 2021-11-12 |
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The Power of the Dog | Phil Burbank | 2021-10-25 |
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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Louis Wain | 2021-10-21 |
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Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel | Self | 2021-03-22 |
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Spider-Man: No Way Home | Doctor Strange | 2021-12-15 |
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The Mauritanian | Lt. Stuart Couch | 2021-02-12 |
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Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall | 2021-03-15 | |
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Antarctica | Self - Narrator | 2020-10-08 |
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Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King | Self | 2020-08-30 |
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The Courier | Greville Wynne | 2020-01-24 |
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Avengers: Endgame | Doctor Strange | 2019-04-24 |
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The Dog Days of Winter | The Grinch (voice) | 2019-02-05 |
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Cindy-Lou's Yule Log | The Grinch | 2019-02-05 |
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Brexit: The Uncivil War | Dominic Cummings | 2019-01-19 |
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1917 | Colonel MacKenzie | 2019-12-25 |
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Between Two Ferns: The Movie | Benedict Cumberbatch | 2019-09-20 |
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Avengers: Infinity War | Doctor Strange | 2018-04-25 |
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The Child in Time | Stephen Lewis | 2018-07-05 |
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The Current War | Thomas Edison | 2018-02-01 |
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Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle | Shere Khan (voice) | 2018-11-25 |
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The Grinch | Grinch (voice) | 2018-11-08 |
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Thor: Ragnarok | Doctor Strange | 2017-10-02 |
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Walk with Me | Narrator (voice) | 2017-05-11 |
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Sherlock: The Abominable Bride | Sherlock Holmes | 2016-01-01 |
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Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock | Himself | 2016-01-11 |
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Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | Self - Performer | 2016-04-23 |
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Naples '44 | Norman Lewis (voice) | 2016-12-15 |
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Doctor Strange | Dr. Stephen Strange | 2016-10-25 |
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Zoolander 2 | All | 2016-02-06 |
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National Theatre Live: Hamlet | Hamlet | 2015-10-15 |
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Black Mass | Billy Bulger | 2015-09-17 |
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Unlocking Sherlock | Himself / Sherlock Holmes | 2014-01-19 |
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Smaug / Sauron (voice) | 2014-12-10 |
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The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue | Agent Classified (voice) | 2014-07-22 |
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The Imitation Game | Alan Turing | 2014-11-14 |
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Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D | Narrator (Voice) | 2014-09-20 |
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Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet | Narrator | 2014-06-01 |
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Penguins of Madagascar | Classified (voice) | 2014-11-22 |
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Sherlock: His Last Vow | 2014-01-12 | |
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How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective | Self | 2014-01-12 |
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Jerusalem | Narrator (voice) | 2013-11-16 |
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Star Trek Into Darkness | John Harrison / Khan | 2013-05-05 |
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Smaug / Sauron | 2013-12-11 |
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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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Sherlock: Many Happy Returns | Sherlock Holmes | 2013-12-24 |
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August: Osage County | Little Charles Aiken | 2013-12-26 |
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Little Favour | Wallace | 2013-11-05 |
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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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Frankenstein: A Modern Myth | Self / Frankenstein / The Monster | 2012-10-31 |
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Sherlock: Uncovered | Sherlock, Self | 2012-05-22 |
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The Dreams of William Golding | Reader | 2012-03-17 |
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Girlfriend in a Coma | Dante (voice) | 2012-11-26 |
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Necromancer | 2012-12-12 |
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The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch | 2011-07-28 | |
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Peter Guillam | 2011-09-16 |
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War Horse | Maj. Jamie Stewart | 2011-12-25 |
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National Theatre Live: Frankenstein | The Creature / Victor Frankenstein | 2011-03-17 |
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Wreckers | David | 2011-12-16 |
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Burlesque Fairytales | Henry Clark | 2010-01-01 |
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Four Lions | Negotiator | 2010-05-07 |
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Unlocking Sherlock | Himself | 2010-08-30 |
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Van Gogh: Painted with Words | Vincent Van Gogh | 2010-04-05 |
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The Whistleblower | Nick Kaufman | 2010-09-13 |
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Third Star | James | 2010-06-01 |
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Creation | Joseph Dalton Hooker | 2009-09-25 |
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The Turning Point | Guy Burgess | 2009-08-12 |
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The Other Boleyn Girl | William Carey | 2008-02-28 |
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Inseparable | Joe / Charlie | 2007-03-15 |
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Atonement | Paul Marshall | 2007-02-27 |
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Stuart: A Life Backwards | Alexander Masters | 2007-09-23 |
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Amazing Grace | William Pitt | 2006-09-16 |
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Starter for 10 | Patrick Watts | 2006-09-13 |
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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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Fields of Gold | Jeremy | 2002-06-08 |
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Hills Like White Elephants | The Man | 2002-06-01 |
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Wife & Dog | ||
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Supermarket slave trail | Narrator | |
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Blood on Snow | The Fisherman | |
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Morning | Frank |
