Benedict Cumberbatch
Acting
Born: July 19, 1976 (age 50) · Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Highest Rated
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
Avengers: Infinity War
2018
Avengers: Endgame
2019
Doctor Strange
2016
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021
Thor: Ragnarok
2017
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
The Imitation Game
2014
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013
1917
2019
12 Years a Slave
2013
The Simpsons
1989
Photos (17)
Movies (80)
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Doctor Strange
Avengers: Infinity War
Doctor Strange
Avengers: Endgame
Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Doctor Stephen Strange
Thor: Ragnarok
Doctor Strange
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Smaug / Sauron (voice)
Doctor Strange
Dr. Stephen Strange
Penguins of Madagascar
Classified (voice)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Necromancer
The Imitation Game
Alan Turing
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Smaug / Sauron
1917
Colonel MacKenzie
The Phoenician Scheme
Uncle Nubar
The Grinch
The Grinch (voice)
Star Trek Into Darkness
John Harrison / Khan
Atonement
Paul Marshall
12 Years a Slave
William Ford
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Peter Guillam
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
Shere Khan (voice)
The Roses
Theo Rose
War Horse
Maj. Jamie Stewart
Black Mass
Billy Bulger
The Power of the Dog
Phil Burbank
Zoolander 2
All
The Courier
Greville Wynne
The Other Boleyn Girl
William Carey
Minions & More Volume 1
The Grinch (voice)
The Mauritanian
Lt. Stuart Couch
The Fifth Estate
Julian Assange
August: Osage County
Little Charles Aiken
The Book of Clarence
Benjamin
The Current War
Thomas Edison
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Sherlock Holmes
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist
Poison
Harry Pope
Four Lions
Negotiator
The Thing with Feathers
Dad
The End We Start From
AB
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage)
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Louis Wain
The Whistleblower
Nick Kaufman
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Dominic Cummings
Stuart: A Life Backwards
Alexander Masters
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Benedict Cumberbatch
Starter for 10
Patrick Watts
Amazing Grace
William Pitt
Creation
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To Kill a King
Royalist
Jerusalem
Narrator (voice)
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
Agent Classified (voice)
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
The Creature / Victor Frankenstein
Third Star
James
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Hamlet
The Child in Time
Stephen Lewis
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage)
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Daddy (voice)
Hawking
Stephen Hawking
Walk with Me
Narrator (voice)
Wreckers
David
9 Kisses
Man at Costume Party
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Rosencrantz
Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
Narrator
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Vincent Van Gogh
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021
The Dog Days of Winter
The Grinch (voice)
Mog's Christmas
Mr. Thomas (voice)
Naples '44
Norman Lewis (voice)
Little Favour
Wallace
Arctic: Our Frozen Planet
Narrator
Inseparable
Joe / Charlie
Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D
Narrator (Voice)
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
Sherlock Holmes
Burlesque Fairytales
Henry Clark
Girlfriend in a Coma
Dante (voice)
The Turning Point
Guy Burgess
Hills Like White Elephants
The Man
The Man Who Predicted 9/11
Narrator (voice)
Cindy-Lou's Yule Log
The Grinch
Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog
2022
The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch
2011
TV Shows (32)
The Simpsons
Severus Snape / Prime Minister (voice) · 1 eps
The Simpsons
Quilloughby (voice) · 1 eps
The Colbert Report
Smaug (voice) · 1 eps
Silent Witness
Warren Reid · 2 eps
What If...?
Doctor Strange (voice) · 3 eps
What If...?
Doctor Strange / Strange Supreme (voice) · 1 eps
What If...?
Doctor Strange / Strange-Supreme (voice) · 1 eps
What If...?
Strange Supreme / Demon Strange (voice) · 1 eps
Spooks
Jim North · 1 eps
Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes · 12 eps
Agatha Christie's Marple
Luke Fitzwilliam · 1 eps
Heartbeat
Toby Fisher · 1 eps
Heartbeat
Charles · 1 eps
Marvel Studios Legends
Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (archive footage) (uncredited) · 2 eps
Good Omens
Satan (voice) · 1 eps
The Hollow Crown
Richard · 1 eps
The Hollow Crown
Richard III · 1 eps
Patrick Melrose
Patrick Melrose · 5 eps
Eric
Vincent · 6 eps
The Last Enemy
Stephen Ezard · 5 eps
Tipping the Velvet
Freddy · 1 eps
Nathan Barley
Robin · 2 eps
Parade's End
Christopher Tietjens · 5 eps
To the Ends of the Earth
Edmund Talbot · 3 eps
Cambridge Spies
Edward Hand · 1 eps
Dunkirk
Lt Jimmy Langley · 3 eps
Broken News
Will Parker · 6 eps
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking · 3 eps
Fortysomething
Rory Slippery · 6 eps
Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
Narrator (voice) · 3 eps
Small Island
Bernard · 2 eps
WWI's Tunnels of Death: The Big Dig
Narrator (Voice) · 2 eps
Self / Appearances (47)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest · 3 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest · 2 eps
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self · 1 eps
The Daily Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Graham Norton Show
Self · 8 eps
The Graham Norton Show
Self - Guest · 2 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · 2 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited) · 1 eps
Conan
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest · 7 eps
The View
Self - Guest · 1 eps
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self · 2 eps
Top Gear
Self · 1 eps
Leute heute
Self · 1 eps
Have I Got News for You
Self - Host · 1 eps
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · 3 eps
The One Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
GMTV
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 1 eps
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self · 1 eps
Why did you come to Japan?
Self · 1 eps
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Timeshift
self · 1 eps
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge
Self · 1 eps
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Self (archive footage)
Super/Natural
Self - Narrator (voice) · 6 eps
South Pacific
Self - Narrator (voice) · 6 eps
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Self - Doctor Stephen Strange
Confessions II – The Film
Self
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
Self
Together for Palestine
Self
Unlocking Sherlock
Himself / Sherlock Holmes
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
Self
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion
Self (archive footage)
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Self - Performer
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
Self
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
Self / Frankenstein / The Monster
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
Self
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Himself
Antarctica
Self - Narrator
Tilda Swinton: The Wildcards
Self
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
Self (archive footage)
How to Live on Earth
Self
Placebo: This Search for Meaning
Self
Unlocking Sherlock
Himself
Sherlock: Uncovered
Sherlock, Self
Upcoming (5)
Producing (10)
We Live in Time
Executive Producer
The Roses
Executive Producer
Patrick Melrose
Executive Producer
The Courier
Executive Producer
The Mauritanian
Producer
Eric
Executive Producer
The End We Start From
Executive Producer
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Executive Producer
The Child in Time
Executive Producer
Little Favour
Producer