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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).
Filmography 70
Avengers: Endgame
+5
as Doctor Strange 
Avengers: Infinity War
+5
as Doctor Strange 
Spider-Man: No Way Home
+3
as Doctor Strange 
The Imitation Game
+9
as Alan Turing 
Hobbitten: Femhæreslaget
+6
as Smaug / Sauron (voice) 
Doctor Strange
+4
as Dr. Stephen Strange 
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
+4
as Doctor Stephen Strange 
Sherlock
as Sherlock Holmes 
Thor: Ragnarok
+3
as Doctor Strange 
Grinchen
+7
as The Grinch (voice) 
Pingvinerne fra Madagascar
+8
as Classified (voice) 
1917
+7
as Colonel MacKenzie 
Parade's End
as Christopher Tietjens 
Hobbitten: Dragen Smaugs ødemark
+6
as Smaug / Sauron 
The Roses
+3
as Theo Rose 
12 Years a Slave
+8
as William Ford 
Black Mass
+5
as Billy Bulger 
The Phoenician Scheme
+4
as Uncle Nubar 
Star Trek XII: Into Darkness
+6
as John Harrison / Khan 
War Horse
+1
as Maj. Jamie Stewart 
The Mauritanian
+5
as Lt. Stuart Couch 
Soning
+2
as Paul Marshall 
Patrick Melrose
as Patrick Melrose 
Den gode spion
+5
as Greville Wynne 
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
as Shere Khan (voice) 
The Power of the Dog
as Phil Burbank 
Dame, konge, es, spion
+5
as Peter Guillam 
Den anden søster
as William Carey 
Zoolander 2
+6
as All 
Den vidunderlige historie om Henry Sugar
as Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist 
Familien
+5
as Little Charles Aiken 
Eric
as Vincent 
The Current War
+5
as Thomas Edison 
The Book of Clarence
+2
as Benjamin 
The Fifth Estate
+4
as Julian Assange 
The Thing with Feathers
+1
as Dad 
Small Island
as Bernard 
The Last Enemy
as Stephen Ezard 
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
as Sherlock Holmes 
The Whistleblower
as Nick Kaufman 
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
+6
as Louis Wain 
Four Lions
as Negotiator 
Starter for 10
as Patrick Watts 
To the Ends of the Earth
as Edmund Talbot 
Gift
as Harry Pope 
The End We Start From
+3
as AB 
Stillehavets Tropiske eventyr
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
as Benedict Cumberbatch 
Amazing Grace
as William Pitt 
Brexit: The Uncivil War
as Dominic Cummings 
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage) 
Creation
+1
as Joseph Dalton Hooker 
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
as Stephen Hawking 
Stuart: A Life Backwards
as Alexander Masters 
Dunkirk
as Lt Jimmy Langley 
The Child in Time
as Stephen Lewis 
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) 
Hawking
as Stephen Hawking 
Third Star
as James 
Wreckers
as David 
Tigeren som kom til te
as Daddy (voice) 
Walk with Me
as Narrator (voice) 
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Self - Performer 
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
as Vincent Van Gogh 
Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
+3
as Narrator 
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion
as Self (archive footage) 
Mog's Christmas
as Mr. Thomas (voice) 
Naples '44
as Norman Lewis (voice)