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).
Born: 19 July 1976
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Wife & Dog
Blood on Snow
The Fisherman
Confessions II – The Film
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David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
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The Thing with Feathers
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Together for Palestine
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The Roses
Theo Rose
The Phoenician Scheme
Uncle Nubar
Placebo: This Search for Meaning
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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
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James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
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Arctic: Our Frozen Planet
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Poison
Harry Pope
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist
Minions & More Volume 1
The Grinch (voice)
Super/Natural
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The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Daddy (voice)
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
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Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion
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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...?
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What If...?
Doctor Strange / Strange Supreme (voice)
What If...?
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What If...?
Strange Supreme / Demon Strange (voice)
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
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Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
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Marvel Studios Legends
Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (archive footage) (uncredited)
Antarctica
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Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
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The Courier
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1917
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Between Two Ferns: The Movie
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The Kelly Clarkson Show
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Good Omens
Satan (voice)
Avengers: Endgame
Doctor Strange
Cindy-Lou's Yule Log
The Grinch
The Dog Days of Winter
The Grinch (voice)
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Dominic Cummings
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
Shere Khan (voice)
The Grinch
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The Child in Time
Stephen Lewis
Patrick Melrose
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Avengers: Infinity War
Doctor Strange
The Current War
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Thor: Ragnarok
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Walk with Me
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Naples '44
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Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
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Penguins of Madagascar
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The Imitation Game
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Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D
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The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
Agent Classified (voice)
Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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9 Kisses
Man at Costume Party
Unlocking Sherlock
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How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
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August: Osage County
Little Charles Aiken
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
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Jerusalem
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Little Favour
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National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
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12 Years a Slave
William Ford
The Fifth Estate
Julian Assange
Star Trek Into Darkness
John Harrison / Khan
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Necromancer
Girlfriend in a Coma
Dante (voice)
WWI's Tunnels of Death: The Big Dig
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Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
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Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
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Parade's End
Christopher Tietjens
The Hollow Crown
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Why did you come to Japan?
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Sherlock: Uncovered
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The Dreams of William Golding
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War Horse
Maj. Jamie Stewart
Wreckers
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Peter Guillam
The Jonathan Ross Show
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The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
The Creature / Victor Frankenstein
Conan
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The Whistleblower
Nick Kaufman
Unlocking Sherlock
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Sherlock
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Third Star
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Four Lions
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Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Vincent Van Gogh
Burlesque Fairytales
Henry Clark
Small Island
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Creation
Joseph Dalton Hooker
The Turning Point
Guy Burgess
South Pacific
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The Other Boleyn Girl
William Carey
The Last Enemy
Stephen Ezard
Stuart: A Life Backwards
Alexander Masters
Inseparable
Joe / Charlie
Atonement
Paul Marshall
The Graham Norton Show
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The Graham Norton Show
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Amazing Grace
William Pitt
Starter for 10
Patrick Watts
The One Show
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Broken News
Will Parker
The Man Who Predicted 9/11
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To the Ends of the Earth
Edmund Talbot
Nathan Barley
Robin
Agatha Christie's Marple
Luke Fitzwilliam
Hawking
Stephen Hawking
Dunkirk
Lt Jimmy Langley
Fortysomething
Rory Slippery
To Kill a King
Royalist
Cambridge Spies
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Tipping the Velvet
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Top Gear
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Timeshift
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Fields of Gold
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Hills Like White Elephants
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Spooks
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The View
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Leute heute
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The Daily Show
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Silent Witness
Warren Reid
GMTV
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Heartbeat
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Heartbeat
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Have I Got News for You
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The Simpsons
Severus Snape / Prime Minister (voice)
The Simpsons
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LIVE with Kelly and Mark
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Saturday Night Live
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Saturday Night Live
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The Oscars
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Morning
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Last Flight
Kirk Wallace Johnson
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
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