Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 19, 1976
Place of Birth
Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Credits
159 titles
Benedict Cumberbatch
Biography
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
Filmography
Wife & Dog
How to Live on Earth
Self
Confessions II – The Film
Self
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
Self
The Thing with Feathers
Dad
Together for Palestine
Self
The Roses
Theo Rose
Tilda Swinton: The Wildcards
Self
The Phoenician Scheme
Uncle Nubar
Placebo: This Search for Meaning
Self
We Live in Time
Executive Producer
Eric
Vincent
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage)
The Book of Clarence
Benjamin
Mog's Christmas
Mr. Thomas (voice)
The End We Start From
AB
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
Self (archive footage)
Arctic: Our Frozen Planet
Narrator
Poison
Harry Pope
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist
Minions & More Volume 1
The Grinch (voice)
Super/Natural
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Daddy (voice)
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge
Self
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Self - Doctor Stephen Strange
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Doctor Stephen Strange
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion
Self (archive footage)
Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Doctor Strange
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage)
The Power of the Dog
Phil Burbank
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Louis Wain
What If...?
Doctor Strange (voice)
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
Self
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
The Mauritanian
Lt. Stuart Couch
Marvel Studios Legends
Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (archive footage) (uncredited)
Antarctica
Self - Narrator
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
Self
The Courier
Greville Wynne
1917
Colonel MacKenzie
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Benedict Cumberbatch
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
Good Omens
Satan (voice)
Avengers: Endgame
Doctor Strange
The Dog Days of Winter
The Grinch (voice)
Cindy-Lou's Yule Log
The Grinch
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Dominic Cummings
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
Shere Khan (voice)
The Grinch
The Grinch (voice)