Benedict Cumberbatch
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1976-07-19 (48 years old)
Place of Birth Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Also Known As Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch, เบเนดิกต์ ทิโมที คาร์ลตัน คัมเบอร์แบตช์, בנדיקט טימותי קארלטון קמברבאץ'
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
Actor
as Frank
as Lewis
as Theo
as Doctor Stephen Strange
as Jasper Maskelyne
as Uncle Nubar
as Tom
as Richard Hannay
as Self - Presenter
as Doctor Strange
as Dad
as Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry
as Benjamin
as Vincent
as Mr. Thomas (voice)
as AB
as Narrator
as Harry Pope
as Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist
as The Grinch (voice)
as Daddy (voice)
as Self - Doctor Stephen Strange
as Doctor Stephen Strange
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Doctor Strange
as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage)
as Phil Burbank
as Louis Wain
as Lt. Stuart Couch
as Doctor Strange (voice)
as Doctor Strange / Strange Supreme (voice)
as Doctor Strange / Strange-Supreme (voice)
as Strange Supreme / Demon Strange (voice)
as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self - Narrator
as Greville Wynne
as Colonel MacKenzie
as Benedict Cumberbatch
as Doctor Strange
as The Grinch
as The Grinch (voice)
as Dominic Cummings
as Satan (voice)
as Shere Khan (voice)
as Grinch (voice)
as Grinch (voice)
as Doctor Strange (archive footage)
as Stephen Lewis
as Doctor Strange
as Thomas Edison
as Patrick Melrose
as Doctor Strange
as Narrator (voice)
as Norman Lewis (voice)
as Dr. Stephen Strange
as Self - Performer
as All
as Himself
as Sherlock Holmes
as Hamlet
as Billy Bulger
as Man at Costume Party
as Smaug / Sauron (voice)
as Classified (voice)
as Alan Turing
as Narrator (Voice)
as Agent Classified (voice)
as Narrator
as Himself / Sherlock Holmes
as Self
as Self
as Little Charles Aiken
as Sherlock Holmes
as Narrator (Prehistoric Planet 3D Version)
as Smaug / Sauron
as Narrator (voice)
as Wallace
as Rosencrantz
as William Ford
as Julian Assange
as John Harrison / Khan
as Narrator
as Necromancer
as Dante (Voice)
as Self / Frankenstein / The Monster
as Sherlock, Self
as Narrator (Voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Christopher Tietjens
as Richard
as Richard III
as Self
as Maj. Jamie Stewart
as David
as Peter Guillam
as The Creature / Victor Frankenstein
as Self
as Nick Kaufman
as Himself
as James
as The Negotiator
as Vincent Van Gogh
as Henry Clark
as Sherlock Holmes
as Self
as Self / Sherlock Holmes
as Stephen Hawking
as Joseph Dalton Hooker
as Guy Burgess
as Bernard
as Narrator (voice)
as William Carey
as Stephen Ezard
as Alexander Masters
as Joe / Charlie
as Paul Marshall
as Self
as Self - Guest
as William Pitt
as Patrick Watts
as Self - Guest
as Narrator (voice)
as Will Parker
as Edmund Talbot
as Robin
as Stephen Hawking
as Luke Fitzwilliam
as Lt Jimmy Langley
as Royalist
as Rory Slippery
as Edward Hand
as Jeremy
as The Man
as Freddy
as Self
as self
as Jim North
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Warren Reid
as Self
as Toby Fisher
as Charles
as Severus Snape / Prime Minister (voice)
as Quilloughby (voice)
as Self - Host
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
as Self
Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer