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