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Benedict Cumberbatch
Known for: ActingBenedict 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).
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Отмъстителите: Война без край
as Doctor Strange 
Хобит: Битката на петте армии
as Smaug / Sauron (voice) 
Отмъстителите: Краят
as Doctor Strange 
Игра на кодове
as Alan Turing 
Спайдър-Мен: Няма път към дома
+2
as Doctor Strange 
Шерлок
as Sherlock Holmes 
Гринч
as The Grinch (voice) 
Доктор Стрейндж в мултивселената на лудостта
as Doctor Stephen Strange 
Доктор Стрейндж
as Dr. Stephen Strange 
Тор: Рагнарок
as Doctor Strange 
Изкупление
as Paul Marshall 
Черна служба
as Billy Bulger 
Пингвините от Мадагаскар
+1
as Classified (voice) 
1917
as Colonel MacKenzie 
Хобит: Пущинакът на Смог
as Smaug / Sauron 
Зулендър 2
as All 
12 години в робство
as William Ford 
Войната на Семейство Роуз
as Theo Rose 
Стар Трек: Пропадане в мрака
as John Harrison / Khan 
Финикийският заговор
as Uncle Nubar 
Мавританецът
as Lt. Stuart Couch 
Боен кон
as Maj. Jamie Stewart 
Желязната завеса
as Greville Wynne 
Маугли
as Shere Khan (voice) 
Патрик Мелроуз
as Patrick Melrose 
Краят на парада
as Christopher Tietjens 
Силата на кучето
as Phil Burbank 
Брекзит
as Dominic Cummings 
Дама, поп, асо, шпионин
as Peter Guillam 
Другата Болейн
as William Carey 
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
as Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist 
Скръбта е твар перната
as Dad 
У дома през август
as Little Charles Aiken 
Петата власт
as Julian Assange 
Война за светлина
as Thomas Edison 
Eric
as Vincent 
The Book of Clarence
as Benjamin 
Small Island
as Bernard 
Dunkirk
as Lt Jimmy Langley 
Информаторът
as Nick Kaufman 
Разрушители
as David 
Шерлок: Кошмарната булка
as Sherlock Holmes 
Деветте живота на Луис Уейн
as Louis Wain 
Право в десетката
as Patrick Watts 
Пътешествие до края на света
as Edmund Talbot 
Poison
as Harry Pope 
Четири лъва
as Negotiator 
South Pacific
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
The Last Enemy
as Stephen Ezard 
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
as Benedict Cumberbatch 
Небесна милост
as William Pitt 
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage) 
Във Вселената със Стивън Хокинг
as Stephen Hawking 
Животът на Стюърт: Поглед назад
as Alexander Masters 
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
as Self - Doctor Stephen Strange 
Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
as Narrator (voice) 
Чарлс Дарвин: Сътворение
as Joseph Dalton Hooker 
Дете във времето
as Stephen Lewis 
Хокинг
as Stephen Hawking 
Mog's Christmas
as Mr. Thomas (voice) 
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
as Daddy (voice) 
Walk with Me
as Narrator (voice) 
Трета звезда
as James 
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Self - Performer 
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
as Vincent Van Gogh 
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion
as Self (archive footage) 
Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
as Narrator 
Naples '44
as Norman Lewis (voice)