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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
+3
as Doctor Strange 
Avengers: Infinity War
+3
as Doctor Strange 
Spider-Man: No Way Home
+9
as Doctor Strange 
The Imitation Game
+6
as Alan Turing 
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
+5
as Smaug / Sauron (voice) 
Sherlock
+14
as Sherlock Holmes 
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
+4
as Doctor Stephen Strange 
Doctor Strange
+4
as Dr. Stephen Strange 
Thor: Ragnarok
+2
as Doctor Strange 
The Grinch
+5
as The Grinch (voice) 
Penguins of Madagascar
+2
as Classified (voice) 
1917
+4
as Colonel MacKenzie 
Parade's End
+3
as Christopher Tietjens 
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
+5
as Smaug / Sauron 
The Roses
+3
as Theo Rose 
12 Years a Slave
+3
as William Ford 
Black Mass
+3
as Billy Bulger 
The Phoenician Scheme
+5
as Uncle Nubar 
Star Trek Into Darkness
+10
as John Harrison / Khan 
War Horse
+2
as Maj. Jamie Stewart 
Patrick Melrose
+2
as Patrick Melrose 
The Mauritanian
+8
as Lt. Stuart Couch 
Atonement
+3
as Paul Marshall 
The Courier
+7
as Greville Wynne 
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
as Shere Khan (voice) 
The Power of the Dog
as Phil Burbank 
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
as Peter Guillam 
The Other Boleyn Girl
+7
as William Carey 
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
as Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist 
Zoolander 2
+7
as All 
August: Osage County
+19
as Little Charles Aiken 
Eric
as Vincent 
The Current War
as Thomas Edison 
The Book of Clarence
+7
as Benjamin 
The Fifth Estate
+2
as Julian Assange 
The Thing with Feathers
+3
as Dad 
Small Island
as Bernard 
The Last Enemy
+2
as Stephen Ezard 
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
+1
as Sherlock Holmes 
The Whistleblower
+15
as Nick Kaufman 
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
as Louis Wain 
Four Lions
+10
as Negotiator 
Starter for 10
+4
as Patrick Watts 
To the Ends of the Earth
+7
as Edmund Talbot 
Poison
as Harry Pope 
The End We Start From
+4
as AB 
South Pacific
+2
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
as Benedict Cumberbatch 
Amazing Grace
+3
as William Pitt 
Dunkirk
+3
as Lt Jimmy Langley 
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage) 
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
as Stephen Hawking 
Brexit: The Uncivil War
as Dominic Cummings 
Stuart: A Life Backwards
as Alexander Masters 
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 
Creation
+14
as Joseph Dalton Hooker 
Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
as Narrator (voice) 
Third Star
as James 
Hawking
+2
as Stephen Hawking 
Wreckers
+5
as David 
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
+1
as Daddy (voice) 
Walk with Me
+5
as Narrator (voice) 
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
+2
as Self - Performer 
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
as Vincent Van Gogh 
Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
+12
as Narrator 
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion
as Self (archive footage) 
Mog's Christmas
+2
as Mr. Thomas (voice) 
Naples '44
as Norman Lewis (voice)