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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Movies (111)
Wife & Dog
2027
Mog's Bad Thing
2026 · Mr. Thomas (voice)
How to Live on Earth
2026 · Self
Confessions II – The Film
2026 · Self
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
2026 · Self
Esa cosa con alas
2025 · Dad
Together for Palestine
2025 · Self
Los Roses
2025 · Theo Rose, Executive Producer
Tilda Swinton: The Wildcards
2025 · Self
El esquema Fenicio
2025 · Uncle Nubar
Placebo: This Search for Meaning
2024 · Self
We Live in Time
2024 · Executive Producer
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024 · Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage)
La biblia de Clarence
2024 · Benjamin
Mog's Christmas
2023 · Mr. Thomas (voice)
El final del que partimos
2023 · AB, Executive Producer
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Arctic: Our Frozen Planet
2023 · Narrator
Veneno
2023 · Harry Pope
La maravillosa historia de Henry Sugar
2023 · Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist
Minions & More Volume 1
2022 · The Grinch (voice)
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
2022 · Daddy (voice)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022 · Self - Doctor Stephen Strange
Doctor Strange en el multiverso de la locura
2022 · Doctor Stephen Strange
Spider-Man: Todos los caminos conducen a No Way Home
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Detrás de las cámaras con Jane Campion
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog
2022
Spider-Man: Sin camino a casa
2021 · Doctor Strange
Especial Disney+ Day de Marvel Studios 2021
2021 · Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage)
El Poder Del Perro
2021 · Phil Burbank
La vida electrizante de Louis Wain
2021 · Louis Wain, Executive Producer
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021 · Self
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021
El Mauritano
2021 · Lt. Stuart Couch, Producer
Antarctica
2020 · Self - Narrator
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020 · Self
El espía inglés
2020 · Greville Wynne, Executive Producer
1917
2019 · Colonel MacKenzie
Entre Dos Helechos: La película
2019 · Benedict Cumberbatch
Avengers: Endgame
2019 · Doctor Strange
Cindy-Lou's Yule Log
2019 · The Grinch
The Dog Days of Winter
2019 · The Grinch (voice)
Brexit
2019 · Dominic Cummings
Mowgli: Relatos del libro de la selva
2018 · Shere Khan (voice)
El Grinch
2018 · The Grinch (voice)
The Child in Time
2018 · Stephen Lewis, Executive Producer
Avengers: Infinity War
2018 · Doctor Strange
Una guerra brillante
2018 · Thomas Edison
Thor: Ragnarok
2017 · Doctor Strange
Walk with Me
2017 · Narrator (voice)
Naples '44
2016 · Norman Lewis (voice)
Doctor Strange: Hechicero supremo
2016 · Dr. Stephen Strange
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016 · Self - Performer
Zoolander 2
2016 · All
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016 · Himself
Sherlock: La novia abominable
2016 · Sherlock Holmes
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2015 · Hamlet
Pacto criminal
2015 · Billy Bulger
El Hobbit 3: La batalla de los Cinco Ejércitos
2014 · Smaug / Sauron (voice)
Los Pingüinos de Madagascar
2014 · Classified (voice)
El código enigma
2014 · Alan Turing
Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D
2014 · Narrator (Voice)
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
2014 · Agent Classified (voice)
Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
2014 · Narrator
9 Kisses
2014 · Man at Costume Party
Unlocking Sherlock
2014 · Himself / Sherlock Holmes
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
2014 · Self
Las vueltas del destino
2013 · Little Charles Aiken
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
2013 · Sherlock Holmes
El Hobbit 2: La desolación de Smaug
2013 · Smaug / Sauron
Jerusalem
2013 · Narrator (voice)
Little Favour
2013 · Wallace, Producer
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013 · Rosencrantz
12 Años de Esclavitud
2013 · William Ford
El quinto poder
2013 · Julian Assange
Star Trek: En la oscuridad
2013 · Khan
El Hobbit: Un viaje inesperado
2012 · Necromancer
Girlfriend in a Coma
2012 · Dante (voice)
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
2012 · Self / Frankenstein / The Monster
Sherlock: Uncovered
2012 · Sherlock, Self
The Dreams of William Golding
2012 · Reader
Caballo de Guerra
2011 · Maj. Jamie Stewart
Wreckers
2011 · David
El Espía que Sabía Demasiado
2011 · Peter Guillam
The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch
2011
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
2011 · The Creature / Victor Frankenstein
The Whistleblower
2010 · Nick Kaufman
Unlocking Sherlock
2010 · Himself
Third Star
2010 · James
Four Lions
2010 · Negotiator
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
2010 · Vincent Van Gogh
Burlesque Fairytales
2010 · Henry Clark
Creación
2009 · Joseph Dalton Hooker
The Turning Point
2009 · Guy Burgess
La otra Reina
2008 · William Carey
Stuart: una vida al revés
2007 · Alexander Masters
Inseparable
2007 · Joe / Charlie
Expiación, deseo y pecado
2007 · Paul Marshall
Sublime gracia
2007 · William Pitt
Un Chico Listo
2006 · Patrick Watts
The Man Who Predicted 9/11
2005 · Narrator (voice)
Hawking
2004 · Stephen Hawking
To Kill a King
2003 · Royalist
Fields of Gold
2002 · Jeremy
Hills Like White Elephants
2002 · The Man
Blood on Snow
· The Fisherman
Morning
· Frank, Executive Producer
Last Flight
· Kirk Wallace Johnson, Executive Producer
Untitled Doctor Strange Movie
· Doctor Stephen Strange
Rogue Male
· Producer
Migrations
· Producer
TV shows (54)
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
2025 · Self - Guest
Eric
2024 · Vincent, Executive Producer
Super/Natural
2022 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Salvajemente Famosos: El Desafío
2022 · Self
What If...?
2021 · Doctor Strange (voice), Doctor Strange / Strange Supreme (voice), Doctor Strange / Strange-Supreme (voice), Strange Supreme / Demon Strange (voice)
Leyendas de Marvel Studios
2021 · Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Self
Good Omens
2019 · Satan (voice)
Patrick Melrose
2018 · Patrick Melrose, Executive Producer
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self - Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self - Guest
WWI's Tunnels of Death: The Big Dig
2012 · Narrator (Voice)
Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
2012 · Narrator (voice)
Parade's End
2012 · Christopher Tietjens
La Corona Vacía
2012 · Richard, Richard III
Why did you come to Japan?
2012 · Self
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011 · Self
Conan
2010 · Self - Guest
Sherlock
2010 · Sherlock Holmes
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
2010 · Stephen Hawking
Small Island
2009 · Bernard
South Pacific
2009 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The Last Enemy
2008 · Stephen Ezard
El show de Graham Norton
2007 · Self, Self - Guest
The One Show
2006 · Self - Guest
Broken News
2005 · Will Parker
The Colbert Report
2005 · Smaug (voice)
To the Ends of the Earth
2005 · Edmund Talbot
Nathan Barley
2005 · Robin
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Luke Fitzwilliam
Dunkirk
2004 · Lt Jimmy Langley
Fortysomething
2003 · Rory Slippery
Cambridge Spies
2003 · Edward Hand
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self - Guest
Tipping the Velvet
2002 · Freddy
Top Gear
2002 · Self
Timeshift
2002 · self
Spooks
2002 · Jim North
The View
1997 · Self - Guest
Leute heute
1997 · Self
Glastonbury
1997 · Self
The Daily Show
1996 · Self - Guest
Testigo silencioso
1996 · Warren Reid
GMTV
1993 · Self
Heartbeat
1992 · Toby Fisher, Charles
Have I Got News for You
1990 · Self - Host
Los Simpson
1989 · Severus Snape / Prime Minister (voice), Quilloughby (voice)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Self
The South Bank Show
1978
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Host, Self - Cameo (uncredited)
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
· Self - Presenter