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person_profile-Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch Age: 48

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Benedict Cumberbatch

Date of Birth:

Jul 19, 1976

Country of birth:

UK

Biography of

Benedict Cumberbatch

    Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 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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Filmography of

Benedict Cumberbatch

Found 72 Movies in total

A Complete Unknown

Pete Seeger ( Actor )

... 2024

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry ( Actor )

... 2024

... 2024

... 2024

... 2023

James Blunt: One Brit Wonder

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2023

Arctic: Our Frozen Planet

Narrator ( Actor )

... 2023

Minions & More 1

The Grinch (voice) ( Actor )

... 2022

... 2022

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Dr. Stephen Strange / Sinister Strange / Defender Strange ( Actor )

... 2022

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange ( Actor )

... 2021

The Power of the Dog

Phil Burbank ( Actor )

... 2021

... 2021

... 2021

... 2021

The Mauritanian

Lt. Stuart Couch ( Actor )

Producer

... 2021

Antarctica

Self - Narrator ( Actor )

... 2020

... 2020

The Courier

Greville Wynne ( Actor )

Executive Producer

... 2020

1917

Colonel MacKenzie ( Actor )

... 2019

Between Two Ferns: The Movie

Benedict Cumberbatch ( Actor )

... 2019

Avengers: Endgame

Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange ( Actor )

... 2019

Brexit: The Uncivil War

Dominic Cummings ( Actor )

... 2019

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

Shere Khan ( Actor )

... 2018

The Grinch

Grinch (voice) ( Actor )

... 2018

The Child in Time

Stephen Lewis ( Actor )

Executive Producer

... 2018

Avengers: Infinity War

Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange ( Actor )

... 2018

The Current War

Thomas Edison ( Actor )

... 2018

Thor: Ragnarok

Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange ( Actor )

... 2017

Walk with Me

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

... 2017

Naples '44

Norman Lewis ( Actor )

... 2016

Doctor Strange

Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange ( Actor )

... 2016

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Self - Performer ( Actor )

... 2016

Zoolander 2

All ( Actor )

... 2016

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

Sherlock Holmes ( Actor )

... 2016

... 2015

Black Mass

Billy Bulger ( Actor )

... 2015

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Smaug / Necromancer (voice) ( Actor )

... 2014

Penguins of Madagascar

Classified (voice) ( Actor )

... 2014

The Imitation Game

Alan Turing ( Actor )

... 2014

... 2014

... 2014

... 2014

Unlocking Sherlock

Himself / Sherlock Holmes ( Actor )

... 2014

August: Osage County

Little Charles Aiken ( Actor )

... 2013

Walking with Dinosaurs

Narrator (Prehistoric Planet 3D Version) ( Actor )

... 2013

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Smaug / Necromancer ( Actor )

... 2013

Jerusalem

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

... 2013

... 2013

12 Years a Slave

William Ford ( Actor )

... 2013

The Fifth Estate

Julian Assange ( Actor )

... 2013

Star Trek Into Darkness

John Harrison ( Actor )

... 2013

... 2012

Frankenstein: A Modern Myth

Self / Frankenstein / The Monster ( Actor )

... 2012

War Horse

Maj. Jamie Stewart ( Actor )

... 2011

Wreckers

David ( Actor )

... 2011

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Peter Guillam ( Actor )

... 2011

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein

The Creature / Victor Frankenstein ( Actor )

... 2011

The Whistleblower

Nick Kaufman ( Actor )

... 2010

Unlocking Sherlock

Himself ( Actor )

... 2010

Third Star

James ( Actor )

... 2010

Four Lions

The Negotiator ( Actor )

... 2010

Van Gogh: Painted with Words

Vincent Van Gogh ( Actor )

... 2010

Creation

Joseph Dalton Hooker ( Actor )

... 2009

The Turning Point

Guy Burgess ( Actor )

... 2009

The Other Boleyn Girl

William Carey ( Actor )

... 2008

Stuart: A Life Backwards

Alexander Masters ( Actor )

... 2007

Atonement

Paul Marshall ( Actor )

... 2007

Amazing Grace

William Pitt ( Actor )

... 2006

Starter for 10

Patrick Watts ( Actor )

... 2006

Hawking

Stephen Hawking ( Actor )

... 2004

To Kill a King

Royalist ( Actor )

... 2003