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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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Răzbunătorii: Războiul Infinitului
as Doctor Strange 
Hobbitul: Bătălia celor cinci oștiri
as Smaug / Sauron (voice) 
Răzbunătorii: Sfârșitul jocului
as Doctor Strange 
Jocul codurilor
as Alan Turing 
Omul-Păianjen: Niciun drum spre casă
as Doctor Strange 
Sherlock
as Sherlock Holmes 
Grinch
as The Grinch (voice) 
Doctor Strange în Multiversul Nebuniei
as Doctor Stephen Strange 
Doctor Strange
as Dr. Stephen Strange 
Thor: Ragnarok
as Doctor Strange 
Remușcare
as Paul Marshall 
Black Mass: Afaceri murdare
as Billy Bulger 
Pinguinii din Madagascar
as Classified (voice) 
1917: Speranță și moarte
as Colonel MacKenzie 
Hobbitul: Dezolarea lui Smaug
as Smaug / Sauron 
12 ani de sclavie
as William Ford 
Familia Rose
as Theo Rose 
Star Trek: În întuneric
as John Harrison / Khan 
The Phoenician Scheme: Conspirația
as Uncle Nubar 
Calul de luptă
as Maj. Jamie Stewart 
Mauritanul
as Lt. Stuart Couch 
Umbra spionului
as Greville Wynne 
Mowgli: Legenda junglei
as Shere Khan (voice) 
Patrick Melrose
as Patrick Melrose 
Parade's End
as Christopher Tietjens 
Puterea câinelui
as Phil Burbank 
Brexit
as Dominic Cummings 
Un spion care știa prea multe
as Peter Guillam 
Cealaltă moștenitoare Boleyn
as William Carey 
Zoolander 2
as All 
Minunata povestire a lui Henry Sugar
as Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist 
The Thing with Feathers
as Dad 
Ținutul din mijlocul verii
as Little Charles Aiken 
Războiul actual
as Thomas Edison 
Eric
as Vincent 
Cartea lui Clarence
as Benjamin 
Wikileaks: A cincea putere în stat
as Julian Assange 
Small Island
as Bernard 
Dunkirk
as Lt Jimmy Langley 
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
as Sherlock Holmes 
Martor și acuzator
as Nick Kaufman 
Viața electrizantă a lui Louis Wain
as Louis Wain 
Flirt de nota 10
as Patrick Watts 
To the Ends of the Earth
as Edmund Talbot 
Otrava
as Harry Pope 
Patru lei paralei
as Negotiator 
South Pacific
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
The Last Enemy
as Stephen Ezard 
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
as Benedict Cumberbatch 
Bunăvoință uimitoare
as William Pitt 
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage) 
În Univers cu Stephen Hawking
as Stephen Hawking 
Stuart: O viață spusă invers
as Alexander Masters 
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
as Self - Doctor Stephen Strange 
Stephen Hawking: Marea proiectare
as Narrator (voice) 
Originea speciilor
as Joseph Dalton Hooker 
Un copil în timp
as Stephen Lewis 
Hawking
as Stephen Hawking 
Wreckers
as David 
Mog's Christmas
as Mr. Thomas (voice) 
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
as Daddy (voice) 
Walk with Me
as Narrator (voice) 
Third Star
as James 
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Self - Performer 
Van Gogh: Pictat cu cuvinte
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)