Benedict Cumberbatch
Acting
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).
TV Shows(50)
Eric
Vincent
2024
Super/Natural
Self - Narrator (voice)
2022
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge
Self
2022
What If...?
Doctor Strange (voice)
2021
Marvel Studios Legends
Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
2019
Good Omens
Satan (voice)
2019
Patrick Melrose
Patrick Melrose
2018
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
2014
WWI's Tunnels of Death: The Big Dig
Narrator (Voice)
2012
Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
Narrator (voice)
2012
Parade's End
Christopher Tietjens
2012
The Hollow Crown
Richard
2012
Why did you come to Japan?
Self
2012
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self
2011
Conan
Self - Guest
2010
Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes
2010
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
2010
Small Island
Bernard
2009
South Pacific
Self - Narrator (voice)
2009
The Last Enemy
Stephen Ezard
2008
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
The One Show
Self - Guest
2006
Broken News
Will Parker
2005
To the Ends of the Earth
Edmund Talbot
2005
Nathan Barley
Robin
2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
Luke Fitzwilliam
2004
Dunkirk
Lt Jimmy Langley
2004
Fortysomething
Rory Slippery
2003
Cambridge Spies
Edward Hand
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003
Tipping the Velvet
Freddy
2002
Top Gear
Self
2002
Timeshift
self
2002
Spooks
Jim North
2002
The View
Self
1997
Leute heute
Self
1997
The Daily Show
Self
1996
Silent Witness
Warren Reid
1996
GMTV
Self
1993
Heartbeat
Toby Fisher
1992
Have I Got News for You
Self - Host
1990
The Simpsons
Severus Snape / Prime Minister (voice)
1989
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self
1988
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975
The Oscars
Self
1953
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Self - Presenter
Movies(102)
Wife & Dog
2026
The Thing with Feathers
Dad
2025
Together for Palestine
Self
2025
The Roses
Theo Rose
2025
The Phoenician Scheme
Uncle Nubar
2025
Placebo: This Search for Meaning
Self
2024
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage)
2024
The Book of Clarence
Benjamin
2024
Mog's Christmas
Mr. Thomas (voice)
2023
The End We Start From
AB
2023
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
Self (archive footage)
2023
Arctic: Our Frozen Planet
Narrator
2023
Poison
Harry Pope
2023
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist
2023
Minions & More Volume 1
The Grinch (voice)
2022
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Daddy (voice)
2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Self - Doctor Stephen Strange
2022
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Doctor Stephen Strange
2022
Behind the Scenes With Jane Campion
Self (archive footage)
2022
Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog
2022
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Doctor Strange
2021
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage)
2021
The Power of the Dog
Phil Burbank
2021
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Louis Wain
2021
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
Self
2021
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021
The Mauritanian
Lt. Stuart Couch
2021
Antarctica
Self - Narrator
2020
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
Self
2020
The Courier
Greville Wynne
2020
1917
Colonel MacKenzie
2019
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Benedict Cumberbatch
2019
Avengers: Endgame
Doctor Strange
2019
Cindy-Lou's Yule Log
The Grinch
2019
The Dog Days of Winter
The Grinch (voice)
2019
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Dominic Cummings
2019
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
Shere Khan (voice)
2018
The Grinch
Grinch (voice)
2018
The Child in Time
Stephen Lewis
2018
Avengers: Infinity War
Doctor Strange
2018
The Current War
Thomas Edison
2018
Thor: Ragnarok
Doctor Strange
2017
Walk with Me
Narrator (voice)
2017
Naples '44
Norman Lewis (voice)
2016
Doctor Strange
Dr. Stephen Strange
2016
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Self - Performer
2016
Zoolander 2
All
2016
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Himself
2016
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Sherlock Holmes
2016
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Hamlet
2015
Black Mass
Billy Bulger
2015
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Smaug / Sauron (voice)
2014
Penguins of Madagascar
Classified (voice)
2014
The Imitation Game
Alan Turing
2014
Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D
Narrator (Voice)
2014
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
Agent Classified (voice)
2014
Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
Narrator
2014
9 Kisses
Man at Costume Party
2014
Unlocking Sherlock
Himself / Sherlock Holmes
2014
神探夏洛克：最后的誓言
2014
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
Self
2014
August: Osage County
Little Charles Aiken
2013
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
Sherlock Holmes
2013
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Smaug / Sauron
2013
Jerusalem
Narrator (voice)
2013
Little Favour
Wallace
2013
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Rosencrantz
2013
12 Years a Slave
William Ford
2013
The Fifth Estate
Julian Assange
2013
Star Trek Into Darkness
John Harrison / Khan
2013
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Necromancer
2012
Girlfriend in a Coma
Dante (voice)
2012
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
Self / Frankenstein / The Monster
2012
Sherlock: Uncovered
Sherlock, Self
2012
The Dreams of William Golding
Reader
2012
War Horse
Maj. Jamie Stewart
2011
Wreckers
David
2011
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Peter Guillam
2011
The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch
2011
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
The Creature / Victor Frankenstein
2011
The Whistleblower
Nick Kaufman
2010
Unlocking Sherlock
Himself
2010
Third Star
James
2010
Four Lions
Negotiator
2010
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Vincent Van Gogh
2010
Burlesque Fairytales
Henry Clark
2010
Creation
Joseph Dalton Hooker
2009
The Turning Point
Guy Burgess
2009
The Other Boleyn Girl
William Carey
2008
Stuart: A Life Backwards
Alexander Masters
2007
Inseparable
Joe / Charlie
2007
Atonement
Paul Marshall
2007
Amazing Grace
William Pitt
2006
Starter for 10
Patrick Watts
2006
The Man Who Predicted 9/11
Narrator (voice)
2005
Hawking
Stephen Hawking
2004
To Kill a King
Royalist
2003
Fields of Gold
Jeremy
2002
Hills Like White Elephants
The Man
2002
Blood on Snow
The Fisherman
Morning
Frank
Last Flight
Kirk Wallace Johnson