Benedict Cumberbatch
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 19, 1976 (age 50)
- Place of birth
- Hammersmith, London, England, UK
- Credits
- 162
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).
Known for
Avengers: Infinity War
2018Movie
Doctor Strange
Avengers: Endgame
2019Movie
Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange
2016Movie
Dr. Stephen Strange
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021Movie
Doctor Strange
Thor: Ragnarok
2017Movie
Doctor Strange
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012Movie
Necromancer
Filmography
Wife & Dog
2027Movie
How to Live on Earth
2026Movie
Self
Confessions II – The Film
2026Movie
Self
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
2026Movie
Self
The Thing with Feathers
2025Movie
Dad
Together for Palestine
2025Movie
Self
The Roses
2025Movie
Theo Rose
Tilda Swinton: The Wildcards
2025Movie
Self
The Phoenician Scheme
2025Movie
Uncle Nubar
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
2025TV
Self - Guest
Placebo: This Search for Meaning
2024Movie
Self
Eric
2024TV
Vincent
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024Movie
Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage)
The Book of Clarence
2024Movie
Benjamin
Mog's Christmas
2023Movie
Mr. Thomas (voice)
The End We Start From
2023Movie
AB
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
2023Movie
Self (archive footage)
Arctic: Our Frozen Planet
2023Movie
Narrator
Poison
2023Movie
Harry Pope
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023Movie
Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist
Minions & More Volume 1
2022Movie
The Grinch (voice)
Super/Natural
2022TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
2022Movie
Daddy (voice)
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge
2022TV
Self
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022Movie
Self - Doctor Stephen Strange
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022Movie
Doctor Stephen Strange
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022Movie
Self (archive footage)
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion
2022Movie
Self (archive footage)
Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog
2022Movie
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021Movie
Doctor Strange
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
2021Movie
Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage)
The Power of the Dog
2021Movie
Phil Burbank
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021Movie
Louis Wain
What If...?
2021TV
Doctor Strange (voice), Doctor Strange / Strange Supreme (voice), Doctor Strange / Strange-Supreme (voice), Strange Supreme / Demon Strange (voice)
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021Movie
Self
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021Movie
The Mauritanian
2021Movie
Lt. Stuart Couch
Marvel Studios Legends
2021TV
Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (archive footage) (uncredited)
Antarctica
2020Movie
Self - Narrator
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020Movie
Self
The Courier
2020Movie
Greville Wynne
1917
2019Movie
Colonel MacKenzie
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
2019Movie
Benedict Cumberbatch
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019TV
Self
Good Omens
2019TV
Satan (voice)
Avengers: Endgame
2019Movie
Doctor Strange
Cindy-Lou's Yule Log
2019Movie
The Grinch
The Dog Days of Winter
2019Movie
The Grinch (voice)
Brexit: The Uncivil War
2019Movie
Dominic Cummings
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
2018Movie
Shere Khan (voice)
The Grinch
2018Movie
The Grinch (voice)
The Child in Time
2018Movie
Stephen Lewis
Patrick Melrose
2018TV
Patrick Melrose
Avengers: Infinity War
2018Movie
Doctor Strange
The Current War
2018Movie
Thomas Edison
Thor: Ragnarok
2017Movie
Doctor Strange
Walk with Me
2017Movie
Narrator (voice)
Naples '44
2016Movie
Norman Lewis (voice)
Doctor Strange
2016Movie
Dr. Stephen Strange
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016Movie
Self - Performer
Zoolander 2
2016Movie
All
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016Movie
Himself
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016Movie
Sherlock Holmes
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2015Movie
Hamlet
Black Mass
2015Movie
Billy Bulger
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015TV
Self - Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014TV
Self
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014Movie
Smaug / Sauron (voice)
Penguins of Madagascar
2014Movie
Classified (voice)
The Imitation Game
2014Movie
Alan Turing
Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D
2014Movie
Narrator (Voice)
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
2014Movie
Agent Classified (voice)
Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
2014Movie
Narrator
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014TV
Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014TV
Self - Guest
9 Kisses
2014Movie
Man at Costume Party
Unlocking Sherlock
2014Movie
Himself / Sherlock Holmes
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
2014Movie
Self
August: Osage County
2013Movie
Little Charles Aiken
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
2013Movie
Sherlock Holmes
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013Movie
Smaug / Sauron
Jerusalem
2013Movie
Narrator (voice)
Little Favour
2013Movie
Wallace
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013Movie
Rosencrantz
12 Years a Slave
2013Movie
William Ford
The Fifth Estate
2013Movie
Julian Assange
Star Trek Into Darkness
2013Movie
John Harrison / Khan
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012Movie
Necromancer
Girlfriend in a Coma
2012Movie
Dante (voice)
WWI's Tunnels of Death: The Big Dig
2012TV
Narrator (Voice)
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
2012Movie
Self / Frankenstein / The Monster
Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
2012TV
Narrator (voice)
Parade's End
2012TV
Christopher Tietjens
The Hollow Crown
2012TV
Richard, Richard III
Why did you come to Japan?
2012TV
Self
Sherlock: Uncovered
2012Movie
Sherlock, Self
The Dreams of William Golding
2012Movie
Reader
War Horse
2011Movie
Maj. Jamie Stewart
Wreckers
2011Movie
David
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011Movie
Peter Guillam
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011TV
Self
The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch
2011Movie
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
2011Movie
The Creature / Victor Frankenstein
Conan
2010TV
Self - Guest
The Whistleblower
2010Movie
Nick Kaufman
Unlocking Sherlock
2010Movie
Himself
Sherlock
2010TV
Sherlock Holmes
Third Star
2010Movie
James
Four Lions
2010Movie
Negotiator
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
2010TV
Stephen Hawking
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
2010Movie
Vincent Van Gogh
Burlesque Fairytales
2010Movie
Henry Clark
Small Island
2009TV
Bernard
Creation
2009Movie
Joseph Dalton Hooker
The Turning Point
2009Movie
Guy Burgess
South Pacific
2009TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Other Boleyn Girl
2008Movie
William Carey
The Last Enemy
2008TV
Stephen Ezard
Stuart: A Life Backwards
2007Movie
Alexander Masters
Inseparable
2007Movie
Joe / Charlie
Atonement
2007Movie
Paul Marshall
Amazing Grace
2007Movie
William Pitt
The Graham Norton Show
2007TV
Self, Self - Guest
Starter for 10
2006Movie
Patrick Watts
The One Show
2006TV
Self - Guest
Broken News
2005TV
Will Parker
The Colbert Report
2005TV
Smaug (voice)
The Man Who Predicted 9/11
2005Movie
Narrator (voice)
To the Ends of the Earth
2005TV
Edmund Talbot
Nathan Barley
2005TV
Robin
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004TV
Luke Fitzwilliam
Hawking
2004Movie
Stephen Hawking
Dunkirk
2004TV
Lt Jimmy Langley
Fortysomething
2003TV
Rory Slippery
To Kill a King
2003Movie
Royalist
Cambridge Spies
2003TV
Edward Hand
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003TV
Self - Guest
Tipping the Velvet
2002TV
Freddy
Top Gear
2002TV
Self
Timeshift
2002TV
self
Fields of Gold
2002Movie
Jeremy
Hills Like White Elephants
2002Movie
The Man
Spooks
2002TV
Jim North
The View
1997TV
Self - Guest
Leute heute
1997TV
Self
Glastonbury
1997TV
Self
The Daily Show
1996TV
Self - Guest
Silent Witness
1996TV
Warren Reid
GMTV
1993TV
Self
Heartbeat
1992TV
Toby Fisher, Charles
Have I Got News for You
1990TV
Self - Host
The Simpsons
1989TV
Severus Snape / Prime Minister (voice), Quilloughby (voice)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988TV
Self
The South Bank Show
1978TV
Saturday Night Live
1975TV
Self - Host, Self - Cameo (uncredited)
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
TV
Self - Presenter
Morning
Movie
Frank
Last Flight
Movie
Kirk Wallace Johnson
Blood on Snow
Movie
The Fisherman
Untitled Doctor Strange Movie
Movie
Doctor Stephen Strange
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Movie
Doctor Strange