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