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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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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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More | Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage) | 2024-03-14 |
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Placebo: This Search For Meaning | Self | 2024-11-28 |
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar | Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist | 2023-09-20 |
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Mog's Christmas | Mr. Thomas (voice) | 2023-12-17 |
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Arctic: Our Frozen Planet | Narrator | 2023-12-01 |
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Poison | Harry Pope | 2023-09-29 |
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The End We Start From | AB | 2023-12-08 |
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James Blunt: One Brit Wonder | Self (archive footage) | 2023-12-06 |
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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 Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Self - Doctor Stephen Strange | 2022-07-07 |
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Minions & More Volume 1 | The Grinch (voice) | 2022-09-27 |
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Behind the Scenes With Jane Campion | Self (archive footage) | 2022-01-27 |
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The Tiger Who Came to Tea | Daddy (voice) | 2022-09-14 |
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Doctor Stephen Strange | 2022-05-04 |
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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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The Power of the Dog | Phil Burbank | 2021-10-25 |
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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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The Courier | Greville Wynne | 2020-01-24 |
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Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King | Self | 2020-08-30 |
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Antarctica | Self - Narrator | 2020-10-08 |
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The Dog Days of Winter | The Grinch (voice) | 2019-02-05 |
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1917 | Colonel MacKenzie | 2019-12-25 |
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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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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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Avengers: Infinity War | Doctor Strange | 2018-04-25 |
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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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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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Walk with Me | Narrator (voice) | 2017-05-11 |
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Thor: Ragnarok | Doctor Strange | 2017-10-02 |
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Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | Self - Performer | 2016-04-23 |
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Doctor Strange | Dr. Stephen Strange | 2016-10-25 |
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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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Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock | Himself | 2016-01-11 |
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Zoolander 2 | All | 2016-02-06 |
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Black Mass | Billy Bulger | 2015-09-17 |
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National Theatre Live: Hamlet | Hamlet | 2015-10-15 |
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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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The Imitation Game | Alan Turing | 2014-11-14 |
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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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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Smaug / Sauron (voice) | 2014-12-10 |
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Penguins of Madagascar | Classified (voice) | 2014-11-22 |
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How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective | Self | 2014-01-12 |
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12 Years a Slave | William Ford | 2013-10-18 |
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Smaug / Sauron | 2013-12-11 |
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Star Trek Into Darkness | John Harrison / Khan | 2013-05-05 |
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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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National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Rosencrantz | 2013-11-02 |
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Little Favour | Wallace | 2013-11-05 |
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Solar Superstorms | Narrator | 2013-02-15 |
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Sherlock: Many Happy Returns | Sherlock Holmes | 2013-12-24 |
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Jerusalem | Narrator (voice) | 2013-11-16 |
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Sherlock: Uncovered | Sherlock, Self | 2012-05-22 |
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Girlfriend in a Coma | Dante (voice) | 2012-11-26 |
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Frankenstein: A Modern Myth | Self / Frankenstein / The Monster | 2012-10-31 |
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Necromancer | 2012-12-12 |
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The Dreams of William Golding | Reader | 2012-03-17 |
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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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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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The Whistleblower | Nick Kaufman | 2010-09-13 |
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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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Van Gogh: Painted with Words | Vincent Van Gogh | 2010-04-05 |
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Four Lions | Negotiator | 2010-05-07 |
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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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Stuart: A Life Backwards | Alexander Masters | 2007-09-23 |
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Atonement | Paul Marshall | 2007-02-27 |
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Inseparable | Joe / Charlie | 2007-03-15 |
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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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Fields of Gold | Jeremy | 2002-06-08 |
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Hills Like White Elephants | The Man | 2002-06-01 |
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Supermarket slave trail | Narrator | |
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Poison | ||
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Gypsy Boy | ||
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Morning | Frank | |
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Blood on Snow | The Fisherman | |
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The War Magician | Jasper Maskelyne | |
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