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 | 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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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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James Blunt: One Brit Wonder | Self (archive footage) | 2023-12-06 |
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Mog's Christmas | Mr. Thomas (voice) | 2023-12-17 |
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The End We Start From | AB | 2023-12-08 |
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Arctic: Our Frozen Planet | Narrator | 2023-12-01 |
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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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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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Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home | Self (archive footage) | 2022-05-03 |
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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 Mauritanian | Lt. Stuart Couch | 2021-02-12 |
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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 | 2021-10-25 |
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Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel | Self | 2021-03-22 |
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Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall | 2021-03-15 | |
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Spider-Man: No Way Home | Doctor Strange | 2021-12-15 |
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Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special | Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage) | 2021-11-12 |
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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 Courier | Greville Wynne | 2020-01-24 |
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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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Avengers: Endgame | Doctor Strange | 2019-04-24 |
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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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Between Two Ferns: The Movie | Benedict Cumberbatch | 2019-09-20 |
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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 Grinch | Grinch (voice) | 2018-11-08 |
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The Grinch Mini-Movies | Grinch (voice) | 2018-11-22 |
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Walking to Nam Kok Hotel | Doctor Strange (archive footage) | 2018-07-13 |
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The Current War | Thomas Edison | 2018-02-01 |
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The Child in Time | Stephen Lewis | 2018-07-05 |
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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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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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Naples '44 | Norman Lewis (voice) | 2016-12-15 |
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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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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 Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue | Agent Classified (voice) | 2014-07-22 |
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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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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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Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D | Narrator (Voice) | 2014-09-20 |
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The Imitation Game | Alan Turing | 2014-11-14 |
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August: Osage County | Little Charles Aiken | 2013-12-26 |
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Walking with Dinosaurs | Narrator (Prehistoric Planet 3D Version) | 2013-12-18 |
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Sherlock: Many Happy Returns | Sherlock Holmes | 2013-12-24 |
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National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Rosencrantz | 2013-11-02 |
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The Fifth Estate | Julian Assange | 2013-10-11 |
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12 Years a Slave | William Ford | 2013-10-18 |
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Little Favour | Wallace | 2013-11-05 |
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Jerusalem | Narrator (voice) | 2013-11-16 |
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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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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 Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Necromancer | 2012-12-12 |
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Girlfriend in a Coma | Dante (voice) | 2012-11-26 |
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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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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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National Theatre Live: Frankenstein | The Creature / Victor Frankenstein | 2011-03-17 |
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Burlesque Fairytales | Henry Clark | 2010-01-01 |
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Third Star | James | 2010-06-01 |
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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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Unlocking Sherlock | Himself | 2010-08-30 |
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Four Lions | Negotiator | 2010-05-07 |
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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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Atonement | Paul Marshall | 2007-02-27 |
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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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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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Fields of Gold | Jeremy | 2002-06-08 |
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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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Magik | Lewis | |
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Gypsy Boy | ||
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