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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Avengers: Doomsday | Doctor Strange | 2026-12-16 |
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The Phoenician Scheme | Uncle Nubar | 2025-05-23 |
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David and Ryan: Saving Christmas | Father Time | 2025-12-25 |
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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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Poison | Harry Pope | 2023-09-29 |
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Arctic: Our Frozen Planet | Narrator | 2023-12-01 |
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Mog's Christmas | Mr. Thomas (voice) | 2023-12-17 |
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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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The End We Start From | AB | 2023-12-08 |
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Minions & More Volume 1 | The Grinch (voice) | 2022-09-27 |
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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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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Self - Doctor Stephen Strange | 2022-07-07 |
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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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Behind the Scenes With Jane Campion | Self (archive footage) | 2022-01-27 |
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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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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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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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Spider-Man: No Way Home | Doctor Strange | 2021-12-15 |
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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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1917 | Colonel MacKenzie | 2019-12-25 |
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Brexit: The Uncivil War | Dominic Cummings | 2019-01-19 |
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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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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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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 Current War | Thomas Edison | 2018-02-01 |
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The Grinch | Grinch (voice) | 2018-11-08 |
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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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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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Zoolander 2 | All | 2016-02-06 |
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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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National Theatre Live: Hamlet | Hamlet | 2015-10-15 |
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Black Mass | Billy Bulger | 2015-09-17 |
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Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D | Narrator (Voice) | 2014-09-20 |
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Sherlock: His Last Vow | 2014-01-12 | |
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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 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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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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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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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Smaug / Sauron | 2013-12-11 |
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Sherlock: Many Happy Returns | Sherlock Holmes | 2013-12-24 |
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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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August: Osage County | Little Charles Aiken | 2013-12-26 |
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Jerusalem | Narrator (voice) | 2013-11-16 |
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Little Favour | Wallace | 2013-11-05 |
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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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National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Rosencrantz | 2013-11-02 |
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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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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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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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The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch | 2011-07-28 | |
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Third Star | James | 2010-06-01 |
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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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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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Stuart: A Life Backwards | Alexander Masters | 2007-09-23 |
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Atonement | Paul Marshall | 2007-02-27 |
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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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Fields of Gold | Jeremy | 2002-06-08 |
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Hills Like White Elephants | The Man | 2002-06-01 |
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Blood on Snow | The Fisherman | |
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Morning | Frank | |
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Supermarket slave trail | Narrator |
