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).
153 acting credits
Acting · 153
The Simpsons
1989
The Daily Show
1996
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Saturday Night Live
1975
Conan
2010
Top Gear
2002
Avengers: Infinity War
2018
The View
1997
Silent Witness
1996
The One Show
2006
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Avengers: Endgame
2019
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Heartbeat
1992
Spooks
2002
Leute heute
1997
Sherlock
2010
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
What If...?
2021
Good Omens
2019
Have I Got News for You
1990
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
The Oscars
1953
Thor: Ragnarok
2017
Marvel Studios Legends
2021
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
—
GMTV
1993
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
The Imitation Game
2014
Doctor Strange
2016
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013
1917
2019
Atonement
2007
The Phoenician Scheme
2025
The Hollow Crown
2012
12 Years a Slave
2013
The Grinch
2018
Patrick Melrose
2018
Star Trek Into Darkness
2013
Timeshift
2002
Why did you come to Japan?
2012
War Horse
2011
Eric
2024
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
2018
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge
2022
The Other Boleyn Girl
2008
Black Mass
2015
The Roses
2025
Tipping the Velvet
2002
Parade's End
2012
Minions & More Volume 1
2022
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023
The Power of the Dog
2021
Cambridge Spies
2003
The Mauritanian
2021
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016
Zoolander 2
2016
Nathan Barley
2005
The Courier
2020
To the Ends of the Earth
2005
The Last Enemy
2008
Small Island
2009
South Pacific
2009
Four Lions
2010
Wife & Dog
2026
The Book of Clarence
2024
The Current War
2018
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024
August: Osage County
2013
Broken News
2005
Fortysomething
2003
Poison
2023
The Whistleblower
2010
Amazing Grace
2006
Super/Natural
2022
Dunkirk
2004
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
2021
The Fifth Estate
2013
The Thing with Feathers
2025
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
2019
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
2026
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
2014
The End We Start From
2023
Starter for 10
2006
Creation
2009
Stuart: A Life Backwards
2007
Hawking
2004
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
2011
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
2010
The Child in Time
2018
Brexit: The Uncivil War
2019
Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
2012
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021
To Kill a King
2003
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2015
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
Blood on Snow
—
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021
Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D
2014
Third Star
2010
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
2012
Wreckers
2011
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
2022
Morning
—
Fields of Gold
2002
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion
2022
Hills Like White Elephants
2002
Placebo: This Search for Meaning
2024
Walk with Me
2017
Mog's Christmas
2023
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016
Together for Palestine
2025
Burlesque Fairytales
2010
WWI's Tunnels of Death: The Big Dig
2012
Jerusalem
2013
9 Kisses
2014
Inseparable
2007
Unlocking Sherlock
2014
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
2010
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
2013
Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
2014
Girlfriend in a Coma
2012
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
2014
The Turning Point
2009
Naples '44
2016
Last Flight
—
Little Favour
2013
Antarctica
2020
Arctic: Our Frozen Planet
2023
The Dog Days of Winter
2019
Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog
2022
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
2023
The Man Who Predicted 9/11
2005
神探夏洛克：最后的誓言
2014
The Dreams of William Golding
2012
Cindy-Lou's Yule Log
2019
Sherlock: Uncovered
2012
Unlocking Sherlock
2010
The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch
2011