Benedict Cumberbatch
Biography
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 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
Narrator (voice)
The Man Who Predicted 9/11
Narrator (Prehistoric Planet 3D Version)
Walking with Dinosaurs
Paul Marshall
Atonement
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Creation
Narrator
Solar Superstorms
William Carey
The Other Boleyn Girl
Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage)
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
Stephen Hawking
Hawking
Patrick Watts
Starter for 10
William Pitt
Amazing Grace
The Negotiator
Four Lions
Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog
Necromancer
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
Nick Kaufman
The Whistleblower
Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Peter Guillam
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Alexander Masters
Stuart: A Life Backwards
Dad
The Thing with Feathers
Self (archive footage)
Behind the Scenes With Jane Campion
John Harrison / Khan
Star Trek Into Darkness
Frank
Morning
James
Third Star
Mr. Thomas (voice)
Mog's Christmas
Smaug / Sauron
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Maj. Jamie Stewart
War Horse
William Ford
12 Years a Slave
David
Wreckers
Henry Clark
Burlesque Fairytales
Smaug / Sauron (voice)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Joe / Charlie
Inseparable
Little Charles Aiken
August: Osage County
The Grinch (voice)
Minions & More Volume 1
Julian Assange
The Fifth Estate
Lewis
Magik
Alan Turing
The Imitation Game
The Creature / Victor Frankenstein
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
Dante (voice)
Girlfriend in a Coma
Self (archive footage)
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Harry Pope
Poison
Narrator
Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
Self - Doctor Stephen Strange
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Wallace
Little Favour
Himself / Sherlock Holmes
Unlocking Sherlock
Narrator (voice)
Jerusalem
Narrator (Voice)
Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D
Vincent Van Gogh
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Classified (voice)
Penguins of Madagascar
Billy Bulger
Black Mass
AB
The End We Start From
Narrator
Arctic: Our Frozen Planet
The Grinch
Cindy-Lou's Yule Log
The Grinch (voice)
The Dog Days of Winter
Sherlock, Self
Sherlock: Uncovered
Man at Costume Party
9 Kisses
Benjamin
The Book of Clarence
Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage)
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Theo
The Roses
Doctor Stephen Strange
Doctor Strange 3
All
Zoolander 2
Jasper Maskelyne
The War Magician
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Grinch (voice)
The Grinch
Jeremy
Fields of Gold
Uncle Nubar
The Phoenician Scheme
Self - Performer
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Hamlet
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Shere Khan (voice)
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
Doctor Strange
Thor: Ragnarok
Rogue Male
Thomas Edison
The Current War
Norman Lewis (voice)
Naples '44
Guy Burgess
The Turning Point
Rosencrantz
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Narrator (voice)
Walk with Me
Stephen Lewis
The Child in Time
Doctor Stephen Strange
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Doctor Strange
Avengers: Infinity War
Royalist
To Kill a King
Gypsy Boy
Himself
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Greville Wynne
The Courier
Dominic Cummings
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Colonel MacKenzie
1917
Phil Burbank
The Power of the Dog
Louis Wain
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Benedict Cumberbatch
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Daddy (voice)
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Lt. Stuart Couch
The Mauritanian
Dr. Stephen Strange
Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange
Avengers: Endgame
Self / Frankenstein / The Monster
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
Self
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
Doctor Strange
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Grinch (voice)
The Grinch Mini-Movies
The Man
Hills Like White Elephants
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
Self
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
Self - Narrator
Antarctica
Agent Classified (voice)
The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue
Himself
Unlocking Sherlock
Doctor Strange (archive footage)
Walking to Nam Kok Hotel
Wife & Dog
Self (archive footage)
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
Doctor Strange
Avengers: Secret Wars
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock: His Last Vow
Doctor Strange
Avengers: Doomsday
The Fisherman
Blood on Snow
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
108
Gender
Male
Birthday
1976-07-19
Place of Birth
Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Also Known As
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch