1976-07-19 London, England, UK
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 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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Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home | Self (archive footage) | 2022-05-03 |
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Behind the Scenes With Jane Campion | Self (Archival Footage) | 2022-01-27 |
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Dr. Stephen Strange / Sinister Strange / Defender Strange | 2022-05-04 |
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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Louis Wain | 2021-10-21 |
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The Power of the Dog | Phil Burbank | 2021-11-17 |
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The Courier | Greville Wynne | 2021-03-18 |
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Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall | 2021-03-15 | |
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The Mauritanian | Lt. Stuart Couch | 2021-02-10 |
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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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Antarctica | Narrator | 2021-05-17 |
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Spider-Man: No Way Home | Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange | 2021-12-15 |
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Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King | Self | 2020-08-30 |
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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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Avengers: Endgame | Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange | 2019-04-24 |
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The Tiger Who Came to Tea | Daddy (voice) | 2019-12-24 |
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Between Two Ferns: The Movie | Benedict Cumberbatch | 2019-09-20 |
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The Grinch Mini-Movies | Grinch (voix) | 2018-11-22 |
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Avengers: Infinity War | Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange | 2018-04-25 |
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Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle | Shere Khan | 2018-11-25 |
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The Current War | Thomas Edison | 2018-02-01 |
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The Grinch | Grinch (voice) | 2018-11-08 |
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The Child in Time | Stephen Lewis | 2018-07-05 |
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Thor: Ragnarok | Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange | 2017-10-24 |
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Walk with Me | Narrator (voice) | 2017-05-11 |
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Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | 2016-04-23 | |
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Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock | Himself | 2016-01-11 |
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Doctor Strange | Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange | 2016-10-25 |
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Zoolander 2 | All | 2016-02-06 |
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Naples '44 | Norman Lewis | 2016-12-15 |
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Sherlock: The Abominable Bride | Sherlock Holmes | 2016-01-01 |
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Black Mass | Billy Bulger | 2015-09-04 |
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National Theatre Live: Hamlet | Hamlet | 2015-10-15 |
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9 Kisses | Man at Costume Party | 2014-12-11 |
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Penguins of Madagascar | Classified (voice) | 2014-11-22 |
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Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet | 2014-06-01 | |
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The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue | Agent Classified | 2014-07-22 |
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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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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Smaug / Necromancer (voice) | 2014-12-10 |
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Jerusalem | Narrator (voice) | 2013-11-16 |
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August: Osage County | Little Charles Aiken | 2013-12-26 |
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Walking with Dinosaurs | narration | 2013-12-18 |
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National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Rosencrantz | 2013-11-02 |
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12 Years a Slave | William Ford | 2013-10-18 |
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The Fifth Estate | Julian Assange | 2013-10-11 |
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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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Star Trek Into Darkness | Khan Noonien Singh | 2013-05-05 |
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Stephen Hawking Biography | 2013-01-01 | |
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Smaug / Necromancer | 2013-12-11 |
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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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Parade's End | Christopher Tietjens | 2012-08-24 |
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Necromancer | 2012-11-26 |
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Girlfriend in a Coma | Dante (Voice) | 2012-11-26 |
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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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Wreckers | David | 2011-12-16 |
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National Theatre Live: Frankenstein | The Creature / Victor Frankenstein | 2011-03-17 |
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Van Gogh: Painted with Words | Vincent Van Gogh | 2010-04-05 |
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Unlocking Sherlock | Himself | 2010-08-30 |
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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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The Whistleblower | Nick Kaufman | 2010-09-13 |
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Third Star | James | 2010-06-01 |
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Burlesque Fairytales | Henry Clark | 2010-01-01 |
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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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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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Hills Like White Elephants | The Man | 2002-06-01 |
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Tipping the Velvet | Freddy | 2002-10-22 |
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Fields of Gold | Jeremy | 2002-06-08 |
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar | Henry Sugar | |
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Magik | Lewis | |
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Morning | Frank | |
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Gypsy Boy | ||
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Rio | ||
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Rogue Male | ||
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The War Magician | Jasper Maskelyne | |
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The Hood | ||
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How to Stop Time | Tom Hazard |
