Benedict Cumberbatch
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
163
Gender
Male
Birthday
1976-07-19 (49 years old)
Place of Birth
Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Benedict Cumberbatch
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).
Known For
The Simpsons
The Simpsons
The Daily Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Graham Norton Show
The Graham Norton Show
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Leute heute
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
The One Show
Avengers: Infinity War
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Top Gear
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Heartbeat
Heartbeat
The View
Have I Got News for You
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
What If...?
What If...?
What If...?
What If...?
Sherlock
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Silent Witness
Agatha Christie's Marple
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Spooks
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Good Omens
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Avengers: Endgame
GMTV
Penguins of Madagascar
Why did you come to Japan?
The Phoenician Scheme
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Marvel Studios Legends
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Imitation Game
Doctor Strange
The Jonathan Ross Show
The Grinch
Thor: Ragnarok
1917
The Oscars
The Roses
The Hollow Crown
The Hollow Crown
12 Years a Slave
Minions & More 1
The Other Boleyn Girl
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Atonement
The Mauritanian
Amazing Grace
The Fifth Estate
August: Osage County
Timeshift
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Star Trek Into Darkness
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
Eric
Patrick Melrose
Poison
The Power of the Dog
Black Mass
War Horse
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Hawking
The Child in Time
Starter for 10
The Current War
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Blood on Snow
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
To the Ends of the Earth
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Zoolander 2
The Courier
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
Creation
Naples '44
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
The Last Enemy
Nathan Barley
The Thing with Feathers
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Super/Natural
Third Star
Little Favour
Parade's End
Mog's Christmas
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
Small Island
Arctic: Our Frozen Planet
Cambridge Spies
The War Magician
The End We Start From
Fields of Gold
The Grinch Mini-Movies
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
Tipping the Velvet
The Book of Clarence
Wreckers
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
Behind the Scenes With Jane Campion
Four Lions
Broken News
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
Morning
Fortysomething
The Whistleblower
Burlesque Fairytales
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Unlocking Sherlock
Stuart: A Life Backwards
Walk with Me
South Pacific
Dunkirk
Inseparable
Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
The Dog Days of Winter
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Solar Superstorms
Girlfriend in a Coma
The Turning Point
Wife & Dog
How to Stop Time
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
Sherlock: Uncovered
To Kill a King
WWI's Tunnels of Death The Big Dig
Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
빈센트 반 고흐: 편지로 만나는 그의 삶과 그림
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
Cindy-Lou's Yule Log
The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue
Placebo: This Search For Meaning
Jerusalem
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
Antarctica
The Man Who Predicted 9/11
The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch
Unlocking Sherlock
Hills Like White Elephants
Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog
The Dreams of William Golding
Gypsy Boy
Rogue Male
Supermarket slave trail
