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 Phoenician Scheme | Uncle Nubar | 2025-05-23 |
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Together for Palestine | Self | 2025-09-17 |
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The Thing with Feathers | Dad | 2025-10-17 |
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The Roses | Theo Rose | 2025-08-27 |
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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 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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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar | Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist | 2023-09-20 |
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Arctic: Our Frozen Planet | Narrator | 2023-12-01 |
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James Blunt: One Brit Wonder | Self (archive footage) | 2023-12-06 |
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Behind the Scenes With Jane Campion | Self (archive footage) | 2022-01-27 |
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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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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Doctor Stephen Strange | 2022-05-04 |
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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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The Tiger Who Came to Tea | Daddy (voice) | 2022-09-14 |
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Minions & More Volume 1 | The Grinch (voice) | 2022-09-27 |
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The Power of the Dog | Phil Burbank | 2021-10-25 |
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Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall | 2021-03-15 | |
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Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special | Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage) | 2021-11-12 |
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Spider-Man: No Way Home | Doctor Strange | 2021-12-15 |
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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Louis Wain | 2021-10-21 |
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The Mauritanian | Lt. Stuart Couch | 2021-02-12 |
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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 Courier | Greville Wynne | 2020-01-24 |
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Antarctica | Self - Narrator | 2020-10-08 |
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Cindy-Lou's Yule Log | The Grinch | 2019-02-05 |
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1917 | Colonel MacKenzie | 2019-12-25 |
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Brexit: The Uncivil War | Dominic Cummings | 2019-01-19 |
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The Dog Days of Winter | The Grinch (voice) | 2019-02-05 |
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Between Two Ferns: The Movie | Benedict Cumberbatch | 2019-09-20 |
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Avengers: Endgame | Doctor Strange | 2019-04-24 |
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The Grinch Mini-Movies | Grinch (voice) | 2018-11-22 |
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The Grinch | Grinch (voice) | 2018-11-08 |
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Avengers: Infinity War | Doctor Strange | 2018-04-25 |
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Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle | Shere Khan (voice) | 2018-11-25 |
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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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Thor: Ragnarok | Doctor Strange | 2017-10-02 |
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Walk with Me | Narrator (voice) | 2017-05-11 |
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Doctor Strange | Dr. Stephen Strange | 2016-10-25 |
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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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Zoolander 2 | All | 2016-02-06 |
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Naples '44 | Norman Lewis (voice) | 2016-12-15 |
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Sherlock: The Abominable Bride | Sherlock Holmes | 2016-01-01 |
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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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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Smaug / Sauron (voice) | 2014-12-10 |
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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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Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet | Narrator | 2014-06-01 |
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How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective | Self | 2014-01-12 |
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The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue | Agent Classified (voice) | 2014-07-22 |
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Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D | Narrator (Voice) | 2014-09-20 |
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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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August: Osage County | Little Charles Aiken | 2013-12-26 |
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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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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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Sherlock: Many Happy Returns | Sherlock Holmes | 2013-12-24 |
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Little Favour | Wallace | 2013-11-05 |
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Jerusalem | Narrator (voice) | 2013-11-16 |
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National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Rosencrantz | 2013-11-02 |
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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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Sherlock: Uncovered | Sherlock, Self | 2012-05-22 |
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Frankenstein: A Modern Myth | Self / Frankenstein / The Monster | 2012-10-31 |
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War Horse | Maj. Jamie Stewart | 2011-12-25 |
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Peter Guillam | 2011-09-16 |
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The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch | 2011-07-28 | |
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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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Third Star | James | 2010-06-01 |
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Four Lions | Negotiator | 2010-05-07 |
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Burlesque Fairytales | Henry Clark | 2010-01-01 |
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Unlocking Sherlock | Himself | 2010-08-30 |
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The Whistleblower | Nick Kaufman | 2010-09-13 |
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Van Gogh: Painted with Words | Vincent Van Gogh | 2010-04-05 |
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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 | 2007-03-15 |
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Atonement | Paul Marshall | 2007-02-27 |
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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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Supermarket slave trail | Narrator | |
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Morning | Frank | |
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Blood on Snow | The Fisherman | |
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