Benedict Cumberbatch
Acting
🎂 1976-07-19
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).
Cast credits(167)
Self
1996
2019
Self
2014
2014
Self
2014
Self
2007
Self - Guest
2007
Severus Snape / Prime Minister (voice)
1989
Quilloughby (voice)
1989
Self - Presenter
Self
1997
1988
Uncle Nubar
2025
Self
2003
self
2002
Warren Reid
1996
Self
2002
Doctor Strange (voice)
2021
Doctor Strange / Strange Supreme (voice)
2021
Doctor Strange / Strange-Supreme (voice)
2021
Strange Supreme / Demon Strange (voice)
2021
Self
2014
Sherlock Holmes
2010
Self
2011
Satan (voice)
2019
Self - Host
1975
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
Luke Fitzwilliam
2004
Self
2012
Self
1993
Doctor Strange
2018
Self
1953
Jim North
2002
Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
Doctor Strange
2021
Patrick Melrose
2018
Vincent
2024
Self - Guest
2006
Self
2022
Khan (archive footage)
2012
Richard
2012
Richard III
2012
Toby Fisher
1992
Charles
1992
Smaug / Sauron (voice)
2014
Doctor Strange
2019
Christopher Tietjens
2012
Self
1997
Edmund Talbot
2005
Stephen Ezard
2008
Doctor Stephen Strange
2022
Narrator (voice)
2012
Rory Slippery
2003
Necromancer
2012
Self - Narrator (voice)
2022
Doctor Strange
2017
Robin
2005
Alan Turing
2014
Smaug / Sauron
2013
Dr. Stephen Strange
2016
Classified (voice)
2014
Colonel MacKenzie
2019
Bernard
2009
Narrator (voice)
2009
Grinch (voice)
2018
William Ford
2013
Paul Marshall
2007
Stephen Hawking
2010
John Harrison / Khan
2013
Narrator (Voice)
2012
Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist
2023
2012
The Grinch (voice)
2022
William Carey
2008
Phil Burbank
2021
Doctor Strange
2027
Billy Bulger
2015
Shere Khan (voice)
2018
Peter Guillam
2011
Sherlock Holmes
2016
Narrator (Prehistoric Planet 3D Version)
2013
Maj. Jamie Stewart
2011
Lt. Stuart Couch
2021
All
2016
Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage)
2024
Benjamin
2024
Greville Wynne
2020
Louis Wain
2021
Tom
Edward Hand
2003
Thomas Edison
2018
Freddy
2002
AB
2023
Lt Jimmy Langley
2004
Harry Pope
2023
Negotiator
2010
Self (archive footage)
2022
Theo
2025
Little Charles Aiken
2013
Benedict Cumberbatch
2019
Alexander Masters
2007
Patrick Watts
2006
Joseph Dalton Hooker
2009
William Pitt
2006
Nick Kaufman
2010
Self - Doctor Stephen Strange
2022
Julian Assange
2013
Royalist
2003
Stephen Lewis
2018
Self (archive footage)
2024
The Creature / Victor Frankenstein
2011
Will Parker
2005
Dominic Cummings
2019
Stephen Hawking
2004
Self
2020
Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage)
2021
Dante (voice)
2012
James
2010
Grinch (voice)
2018
Narrator (voice)
2013
Joe / Charlie
2007
Daddy (voice)
2022
Dad
2025
Himself / Sherlock Holmes
2014
Rosencrantz
2013
Self
2021
Narrator
2014
The Fisherman
Agent Classified (voice)
2014
Mr. Thomas (voice)
2023
Vincent Van Gogh
2010
Man at Costume Party
2014
David
2011
Sherlock Holmes
2013
Narrator (voice)
2017
Sherlock, Self
2012
2021
Self - Performer
2016
Hamlet
2015
The Grinch (voice)
2019
Narrator (Voice)
2014
Narrator
2023
Narrator (voice)
2005
Self (archive footage)
2023
Lewis
2022
Henry Clark
2010
Self - Narrator
2020
The Man
2002
Narrator
2013
Frank
Wallace
2013
Norman Lewis (voice)
2016
The Grinch
2019
Jeremy
2002
Self (archive footage)
2022
Himself
2010
Guy Burgess
2009
2011
Self
2014
Self / Frankenstein / The Monster
2012
Jasper Maskelyne
Himself
2016
Doctor Strange (archive footage)
2018
