Benedict Cumberbatch

Acting · 7.1 popularity

Age

Movies

105

Born: July 19, 1976
From: Hammersmith, London, England, UK

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).

Works

105 films

Spider-Man: No Way Home

20217.9

Avengers: Infinity War

20188.2

Avengers: Endgame

20198.2

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

20227.2

Thor: Ragnarok

20177.6

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

20147.3

Doctor Strange

20167.4

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

20127.4

The Grinch

20186.9

The Imitation Game

20148.0

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

20137.6

Penguins of Madagascar

20146.5

Star Trek Into Darkness

20137.3

1917

20198.0

12 Years a Slave

20137.9

The Roses

20256.6

Atonement

20077.6

War Horse

20117.3

The Phoenician Scheme

20256.5

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

20116.6

Black Mass

20156.5

The Courier

20207.0

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

20186.5

The Other Boleyn Girl

20086.7

Zoolander 2

20164.9

The Power of the Dog

20216.7

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

20237.3

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

20167.8

Minions & More Volume 1

20227.0

Poison

20236.9

August: Osage County

20136.9

The Mauritanian

20217.4

The Current War

20186.7

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

20216.9

The Fifth Estate

20136.0

The Whistleblower

20106.7

Four Lions

20107.0

The Book of Clarence

20245.9

Together for Palestine

20258.2

The Thing with Feathers

20256.5

Between Two Ferns: The Movie

20195.9

The End We Start From

20235.8

Confessions II – The Film

20268.8

Wife & Dog

2027

Creation

20096.4

Starter for 10

20066.4

Amazing Grace

20066.9

Brexit: The Uncivil War

20196.6

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

20247.4

Stuart: A Life Backwards

20077.4

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

20227.1

David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth

20267.0

Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special

20216.9

Third Star

20107.0

The Child in Time

20185.8

Walk with Me

20175.8

Hawking

20047.1

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein

20117.7

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

20157.5

9 Kisses

20145.5

Jerusalem

20136.6

To Kill a King

20035.8

Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King

20208.1

The Dog Days of Winter

20195.8

Morning

2026

Wreckers

20115.2

Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion

20226.1

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

20167.2

Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock

20167.3

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

20136.2

Last Flight

2026

Van Gogh: Painted with Words

20107.3

Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall

20217.5

Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet

20147.6

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

20226.4

James Blunt: One Brit Wonder

20237.0

Blood on Snow

2026

Fields of Gold

2002

Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel

20217.0

Antarctica

20206.3

Frankenstein: A Modern Myth

20127.0

Unlocking Sherlock

20147.9

Inseparable

20077.1

Naples '44

20165.7

Mog's Christmas

20237.3

Tilda Swinton: The Wildcards

2025

Sherlock: Many Happy Returns

20138.0

Hills Like White Elephants

20028.0

Girlfriend in a Coma

20126.9

Burlesque Fairytales

20105.6

The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover

20146.3

Placebo: This Search for Meaning

2024

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

2014

Little Favour

20136.5

Arctic: Our Frozen Planet

20237.0

The Dreams of William Golding

2012

Sherlock: Uncovered

201210.0

The Man Who Predicted 9/11

20057.0

Cindy-Lou's Yule Log

201910.0

The Turning Point

2009

How to Live on Earth

2026

The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch

2011

Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog

2022

Unlocking Sherlock

20106.5

Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D

20146.5