
Acting
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Born
July 19, 1976 (age 49)
Born in
Hammersmith, London, England, UK
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).

Spider-Man: No Way Home
Doctor Strange
2021

Avengers: Infinity War
Doctor Strange
2018

Zoolander 2
All
2016

Avengers: Endgame
Doctor Strange
2019

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Smaug / Sauron (voice)
2014

Thor: Ragnarok
Doctor Strange
2017

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Doctor Stephen Strange
2022

Doctor Strange
Dr. Stephen Strange
2016

The Imitation Game
Alan Turing
2014

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Necromancer
2012

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Smaug / Sauron
2013

Penguins of Madagascar
Classified (voice)
2014

Atonement
Paul Marshall
2007

1917
Colonel MacKenzie
2019

The Grinch
Grinch (voice)
2018

Star Trek Into Darkness
John Harrison / Khan
2013

12 Years a Slave
William Ford
2013

The Phoenician Scheme
Uncle Nubar
2025

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
Shere Khan (voice)
2018

War Horse
Maj. Jamie Stewart
2011