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(163)
Severus Snape / Prime Minister (voice)
1989
Quilloughby (voice)
1989
Self
1996
Self
2014
Self
2007
Self - Guest
2007
Doctor Strange
2018
Self
2014
Doctor Strange
2021
Self
2019
Warren Reid
1996
Self - Host
1975
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
Self
2002
Self - Guest
2006
Luke Fitzwilliam
2004
Sherlock Holmes
2010
Smaug / Sauron (voice)
2014
Doctor Strange (voice)
2021
Doctor Strange / Strange Supreme (voice)
2021
Doctor Strange / Strange-Supreme (voice)
2021
Strange Supreme / Demon Strange (voice)
2021
Doctor Strange
2019
Self - Host
1990
Toby Fisher
1992
Charles
1992
Jim North
2002
Satan (voice)
2019
Doctor Stephen Strange
2022
Self
2014
Self
1997
Necromancer
2012
Self
1997
Self - Presenter
Uncle Nubar
2025
Doctor Strange
2017
Smaug / Sauron
2013
Colonel MacKenzie
2019
Alan Turing
2014
Dr. Stephen Strange
2016
Self
1988
Self
2003
Classified (voice)
2014
Self
2011
Theo
2025
Self
1953
Grinch (voice)
2018
Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
William Ford
2013
John Harrison / Khan
2013
Vincent
2024
Paul Marshall
2007
self
2002
Self
2012
Richard
2012
Richard III
2012
AB
2023
Self
1993
Shere Khan (voice)
2018
Bernard
2009
William Carey
2008
All
2016
The Grinch (voice)
2022
Peter Guillam
2011
Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist
2023
Maj. Jamie Stewart
2011
Patrick Melrose
2018
Self (archive footage)
2022
Billy Bulger
2015
Greville Wynne
2020
Sherlock Holmes
2016
Narrator (Prehistoric Planet 3D Version)
2013
Phil Burbank
2021
Lt. Stuart Couch
2021
Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage)
2024
Patrick Watts
2006
Self
2022
Benedict Cumberbatch
2019
Thomas Edison
2018
Julian Assange
2013
Little Charles Aiken
2013
Benjamin
2024
Louis Wain
2021
Stephen Ezard
2008
Harry Pope
2023
Stephen Hawking
2004
Alexander Masters
2007
William Pitt
2006
Nick Kaufman
2010
Joseph Dalton Hooker
2009
Self - Doctor Stephen Strange
2022
Christopher Tietjens
2012
Sherlock Holmes
2013
Edmund Talbot
2005
Negotiator
2010
Freddy
2002
Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage)
2021
Edward Hand
2003
Dominic Cummings
2019
Will Parker
2005
Robin
2005
Narrator (voice)
2012
Vincent Van Gogh
2010
Self - Narrator (voice)
2022
Rosencrantz
2013
Self
2020
Grinch (voice)
2018
Himself
2016
Stephen Hawking
2010
Hamlet
2015
James
2010
Himself / Sherlock Holmes
2014
The Creature / Victor Frankenstein
2011
Self (archive footage)
2023
Dante (voice)
2012
The Grinch (voice)
2019
Stephen Lewis
2018
Self - Narrator (voice)
2009
Himself
2010
Self
2014
Mr. Thomas (voice)
2023
Rory Slippery
2003
Self (archive footage)
2022
Sherlock, Self
2012
David
2011
Self - Performer
2016
Narrator (voice)
2013
Royalist
2003
Lt Jimmy Langley
2004
Daddy (voice)
2022
Narrator
2014
Tom
The Fisherman
Narrator (Voice)
2012
Dad
2025
2021
Self - Narrator
2020
2012
Wallace
2013
Joe / Charlie
2007
Henry Clark
2010
Narrator (voice)
2017
Narrator (voice)
2005
Jeremy
2002
The Man
2002
Self / Frankenstein / The Monster
2012
Self
2021
Narrator (Voice)
2014
Narrator
2023
Narrator
2013
Norman Lewis (voice)
2016
Agent Classified (voice)
2014
Jasper Maskelyne
Lewis
2022
Frank
The Grinch
2019
Doctor Strange (archive footage)
2018
Guy Burgess
2009
2011
