Benedict Cumberbatch
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).
Known for
The Simpsons
Severus Snape / Prime Minister (voice)
The Simpsons
Quilloughby (voice)
Avengers: Infinity War
Doctor Strange
Silent Witness
Warren Reid
Avengers: Endgame
Doctor Strange
Thor: Ragnarok
Doctor Strange
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Doctor Strange
Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock
Self
Sherlock
Self / Sherlock Holmes
Heartbeat
Toby Fisher
Heartbeat
Charles
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Necromancer
Spooks
Jim North
What If...?
Doctor Strange (voice)
What If...?
Doctor Strange / Strange Supreme (voice)
What If...?
Doctor Strange / Strange-Supreme (voice)
What If...?
Strange Supreme / Demon Strange (voice)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Smaug / Sauron (voice)
Agatha Christie's Marple
Luke Fitzwilliam
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Smaug / Sauron
Good Omens
Satan (voice)
The Imitation Game
Alan Turing
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Doctor Stephen Strange
Doctor Strange
Dr. Stephen Strange
1917
Colonel MacKenzie
Penguins of Madagascar
Classified (voice)
12 Years a Slave
William Ford
Atonement
Paul Marshall
Marvel Studios Legends
Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (archive footage) (uncredited)
Star Trek Into Darkness
John Harrison / Khan
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge
Self
The Grinch
Grinch (voice)
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
Shere Khan (voice)
Avengers: Secret Wars
Doctor Strange
The Oscars
Self
The Power of the Dog
Phil Burbank
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist
The Mauritanian
Lt. Stuart Couch
Timeshift
self
War Horse
Maj. Jamie Stewart
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Peter Guillam
Black Mass
Billy Bulger
The Phoenician Scheme
Uncle Nubar
Minions & More Volume 1
The Grinch (voice)
The Book of Clarence
Benjamin
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Self (archive footage)
The Hollow Crown
Richard
The Hollow Crown
Richard III
Eric
Vincent
The Courier
Greville Wynne
Patrick Melrose
Patrick Melrose
Dunkirk
Lt Jimmy Langley
Creation
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Benedict Cumberbatch
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage)
Walking with Dinosaurs
Narrator (Prehistoric Planet 3D Version)
The Other Boleyn Girl
William Carey
Four Lions
Negotiator
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: 10th Anniversary Special
Self (archive footage)
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage)
The Roses
Theo
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Louis Wain
The Current War
Thomas Edison
The End We Start From
AB
Zoolander 2
All
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Self - Doctor Stephen Strange
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Dominic Cummings
The Whistleblower
Nick Kaufman
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
Self
Nathan Barley
Robin
Parade's End
Christopher Tietjens
To the Ends of the Earth
Edmund Talbot
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Sherlock Holmes
Stuart: A Life Backwards
Alexander Masters
Hawking
Stephen Hawking
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Rosencrantz
Walk with Me
Narrator (voice)
The Child in Time
Stephen Lewis
To Kill a King
Royalist
August: Osage County
Little Charles Aiken
Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
Narrator (voice)
Poison
Harry Pope
Third Star
James
9 Kisses
Man at Costume Party
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Self - Performer
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Vincent Van Gogh
Fields of Gold
Jeremy
The Grinch Mini-Movies
Grinch (voice)
Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
Narrator
Super/Natural
Self - Narrator (voice)
South Pacific
Narrator (voice)
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
Tipping the Velvet
Freddy
Small Island
Bernard
Starter for 10
Patrick Watts
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Hamlet
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Daddy (voice)
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
The Creature / Victor Frankenstein
The Fifth Estate
Julian Assange
Fortysomething
Rory Slippery
The Last Enemy
Stephen Ezard
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
Self (archive footage)
WWI's Tunnels of Death The Big Dig
Narrator (Voice)
The Thing with Feathers
Dad
Wife & Dog
Behind the Scenes With Jane Campion
Self (archive footage)
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
Self
Girlfriend in a Coma
Dante (voice)
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
The Dog Days of Winter
The Grinch (voice)
Amazing Grace
William Pitt
Magik
Lewis
Blood on Snow
The Fisherman
Mog's Christmas
Mr. Thomas (voice)
Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D
Narrator (Voice)
Naples '44
Norman Lewis (voice)
Cambridge Spies
Edward Hand
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Himself
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
Sherlock Holmes
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
Self / Frankenstein / The Monster
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
Self
Wreckers
David
How to Stop Time
Tom
Doctor Strange 3
Doctor Stephen Strange
Unlocking Sherlock
Himself / Sherlock Holmes
Little Favour
Wallace
Sherlock: Uncovered
Sherlock, Self
Unlocking Sherlock
Himself
Jerusalem
Narrator (voice)
Hills Like White Elephants
The Man
Walking to Nam Kok Hotel
Doctor Strange (archive footage)
Burlesque Fairytales
Henry Clark
Antarctica
Self - Narrator
Cindy-Lou's Yule Log
The Grinch
The Man Who Predicted 9/11
Narrator (voice)
The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue
Agent Classified (voice)
Rogue Male
Arctic: Our Frozen Planet
Narrator
Solar Superstorms
Narrator
Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog
The War Magician
Jasper Maskelyne
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
빈센트 반 고흐: 편지로 만나는 그의 삶과 그림
Inseparable
Joe / Charlie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
The Daily Show
Self
The Turning Point
Guy Burgess
Gypsy Boy
The Kelly Clarkson Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
The One Show
Self - Guest
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Self - Presenter
The View
Self
The Graham Norton Show
Self
The Graham Norton Show
Self - Guest
Top Gear
Self
GMTV
Self
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self
Leute heute
Self
Why did you come to Japan?
Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Broken News
Will Parker