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Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch

Birthday: 1976-07-19 | Place of Birth: London, England, UK

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

as    Dr. Stephen Strange / Sinister Strange / Defender Strange

2022
Behind the Scenes With Jane Campion

as    Self (archive footage)

2022
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

as    Self (archive footage)

2021
The Courier

as    Greville Wynne

2021
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

as    Louis Wain

2021
The Mauritanian

as    Lt. Stuart Couch

2021
The Power of the Dog

as    Phil Burbank

2021
Spider-Man: No Way Home

as    Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange

2020
Antarctica

as    Self - Narrator

2019
1917

as    Colonel MacKenzie

2019
Brexit: The Uncivil War

as    Dominic Cummings

2019
Avengers: Endgame

as    Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange

2019
The Current War

as    Thomas Edison

2018
The Grinch

as    Grinch (voice)

2018
Patrick Melrose

as    Patrick Melrose

2018
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

as    Sher Khan

2018
Sherlock H

as    Sherlock Holmes

2018
Cumberbatch Holmes

as    Sherlock Holmes

2018
The Child in Time

as    Stephen Lewis

2018
Avengers: Infinity War

as    Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange

2017
Walk with Me

as    Narrator (voice)

2017
Sherlock: The Final Problem

as    Sherlock Holmes

2017
Thor: Ragnarok

as    Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange

1
Magik

as    Lewis