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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Wife & Dog | 2026-10-23 | |
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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 Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More | Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage) | 2024-03-14 |
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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 | 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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Minions & More Volume 1 | The Grinch (voice) | 2022-09-27 |
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The Tiger Who Came to Tea | Daddy (voice) | 2022-09-14 |
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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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Behind the Scenes With Jane Campion | Self (archive footage) | 2022-01-27 |
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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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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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Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel | Self | 2021-03-22 |
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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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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 Mauritanian | Lt. Stuart Couch | 2021-02-12 |
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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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Cindy-Lou's Yule Log | The Grinch | 2019-02-05 |
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The Dog Days of Winter | The Grinch (voice) | 2019-02-05 |
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Brexit: The Uncivil War | Dominic Cummings | 2019-01-19 |
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Avengers: Endgame | Doctor Strange | 2019-04-24 |
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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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Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle | Shere Khan (voice) | 2018-11-25 |
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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 Grinch | Grinch (voice) | 2018-11-08 |
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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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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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Zoolander 2 | All | 2016-02-06 |
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Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock | Himself | 2016-01-11 |
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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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Unlocking Sherlock | Himself / Sherlock Holmes | 2014-01-19 |
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The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue | Agent Classified (voice) | 2014-07-22 |
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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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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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How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective | Self | 2014-01-12 |
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Sherlock: His Last Vow | 2014-01-12 | |
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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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August: Osage County | Little Charles Aiken | 2013-12-26 |
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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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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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Little Favour | Wallace | 2013-11-05 |
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Jerusalem | Narrator (voice) | 2013-11-16 |
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Frankenstein: A Modern Myth | Self / Frankenstein / The Monster | 2012-10-31 |
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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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Sherlock: Uncovered | Sherlock, Self | 2012-05-22 |
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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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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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Four Lions | Negotiator | 2010-05-07 |
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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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Burlesque Fairytales | Henry Clark | 2010-01-01 |
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Van Gogh: Painted with Words | Vincent Van Gogh | 2010-04-05 |
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Third Star | James | 2010-06-01 |
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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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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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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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Blood on Snow | The Fisherman | |
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Morning | Frank |
