
Benedict Cumberbatch
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Biography
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

Saturday Night Live

Heartbeat

The Oscars

The Graham Norton Show

The Kelly Clarkson Show

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Simpsons

The Daily Show

Honest Trailers

The One Show

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Top Gear

GMTV

What If...?

The Hollow Crown

Silent Witness

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

Marvel Studios Legends

Timeshift

Spooks

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Jonathan Ross Show

Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge

Agatha Christie's Marple

Good Omens

The Bubble

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Zoolander 2

Fields of Gold

Minions & More Volume 1

Walking with Dinosaurs

Venom: The Last Dance

The Phoenician Scheme

Between Two Ferns: The Movie

Avengers: Endgame

Thor: Ragnarok

Avengers: Doomsday

1917

The Other Boleyn Girl

Avengers: Infinity War

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Atonement

Narnia

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

War Horse

Black Mass

Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special

Penguins of Madagascar

Avengers: Secret Wars

Dunkirk

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

12 Years a Slave

Sherlock: Many Happy Returns

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

The Grinch Mini-Movies

Star Trek Into Darkness

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Spider-Man: No Way Home

The Mauritanian

Small Island

How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Stuart: A Life Backwards

Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking

Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D

Hawking

Stephen Hawking's Grand Design

The Grinch

Doctor Strange

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

The Courier

Eric

Van Gogh: Painted with Words

The Roses

The Last Enemy

To the Ends of the Earth

Antarctica

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Brexit: The Uncivil War

Super/Natural

The Imitation Game

The Fifth Estate

Patrick Melrose

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

Sherlock

The Power of the Dog
Production Credits
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