Benedict Cumberbatch
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).
Acted in
Avengers: Doomsday
2026
as Doctor Strange
Eric
2024
as Vincent
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024
as Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry
The Book of Clarence
2024
as Benjamin
Mog's Christmas
2023
as Mr. Thomas (voice)
The End We Start From
2023
as AB
Arctic: Our Frozen Planet
2023
as Narrator
Poison
2023
as Harry Pope
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023
as Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist
Minions & More 1
2022
as The Grinch (voice)
Super/Natural
2022
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
2022
as Daddy (voice)
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge
2022
as Self
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022
as Self - Doctor Stephen Strange
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022
as Doctor Stephen Strange
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Behind the Scenes With Jane Campion
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog
2022
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021
as Doctor Strange
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
2021
as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage)
The Power of the Dog
2021
as Phil Burbank
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021
as Louis Wain
What If...?
2021
as Doctor Strange (voice)
What If...?
2021
as Doctor Strange / Strange Supreme (voice)
What If...?
2021
as Doctor Strange / Strange-Supreme (voice)
What If...?
2021
as Strange Supreme / Demon Strange (voice)
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021
as Self
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021
The Mauritanian
2021
as Lt. Stuart Couch
Marvel Studios Legends
2021
as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (archive footage) (uncredited)
Antarctica
2020
as Self - Narrator
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020
as Self
Between Two Ferns: The Movie, Sorta Uncut Interviews
2020
as Self
The Courier
2020
as Greville Wynne
1917
2019
as Colonel MacKenzie
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
2019
as Benedict Cumberbatch
Good Omens
2019
as Satan (voice)
Avengers: Endgame
2019
as Doctor Strange
Cindy-Lou's Yule Log
2019
as The Grinch
The Dog Days of Winter
2019
as The Grinch (voice)
Brexit: The Uncivil War
2019
as Dominic Cummings
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
2018
as Shere Khan (voice)
The Grinch Mini-Movies
2018
as Grinch (voice)
The Grinch
2018
as Grinch (voice)
Walking to Nam Kok Hotel
2018
as Doctor Strange (archive footage)
The Child in Time
2018
as Stephen Lewis
Patrick Melrose
2018
as Patrick Melrose
Avengers: Infinity War
2018
as Doctor Strange
The Current War
2018
as Thomas Edison
Thor: Ragnarok
2017
as Doctor Strange
Walk with Me
2017
as Narrator (voice)
Doctor Strange: A Strange Transformation
2017
as Self
Naples '44
2016
as Norman Lewis (voice)
Doctor Strange
2016
as Dr. Stephen Strange
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
as Self - Performer
Zoolander 2
2016
as All
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016
as Himself
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016
as Sherlock Holmes
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2015
as Hamlet
Black Mass
2015
as Billy Bulger
9 Kisses
2014
as Man at Costume Party
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
as Smaug / Sauron (voice)
Penguins of Madagascar
2014
as Classified (voice)
The Imitation Game
2014
as Alan Turing
Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D
2014
as Narrator (Voice)
The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue
2014
as Agent Classified (voice)
Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
2014
as Narrator
Unlocking Sherlock
2014
as Himself / Sherlock Holmes
August: Osage County
2013
as Little Charles Aiken
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
2013
as Sherlock Holmes
Walking with Dinosaurs
2013
as Narrator (Prehistoric Planet 3D Version)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013
as Smaug / Sauron
Jerusalem
2013
as Narrator (voice)
Little Favour
2013
as Wallace
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013
as Rosencrantz
12 Years a Slave
2013
as William Ford
The Fifth Estate
2013
as Julian Assange
Star Trek Into Darkness
2013
as John Harrison / Khan
Solar Superstorms
2013
as Narrator
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
as Necromancer
Girlfriend in a Coma
2012
as Dante (Voice)
WWI's Tunnels of Death The Big Dig
2012
as Narrator (Voice)
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
2012
as Self / Frankenstein / The Monster
Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
2012
as Narrator (voice)
Parade's End
2012
as Christopher Tietjens
The Hollow Crown
2012
as Richard
The Hollow Crown
2012
as Richard III
빈센트 반 고흐: 편지로 만나는 그의 삶과 그림
2012
Sherlock: Uncovered
2012
as Sherlock, Self
War Horse
2011
as Maj. Jamie Stewart
Wreckers
2011
as David
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011
as Peter Guillam
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
2011
as The Creature / Victor Frankenstein
The Whistleblower
2010
as Nick Kaufman
Unlocking Sherlock
2010
as Himself
Sherlock
2010
as Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock
2010
as Self
Sherlock
2010
as Self / Sherlock Holmes
Third Star
2010
as James
Four Lions
2010
as The Negotiator
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
2010
as Stephen Hawking
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
2010
as Vincent Van Gogh
Burlesque Fairytales
2010
as Henry Clark
Small Island
2009
as Bernard
Creation
2009
as Joseph Dalton Hooker
The Turning Point
2009
as Guy Burgess
South Pacific
2009
as Narrator (voice)
The Other Boleyn Girl
2008
as William Carey
The Last Enemy
2008
as Stephen Ezard
Stuart: A Life Backwards
2007
as Alexander Masters
Inseparable
2007
as Joe / Charlie
Atonement
2007
as Paul Marshall
Amazing Grace
2006
as William Pitt
Starter for 10
2006
as Patrick Watts
The Man Who Predicted 9/11
2005
as Narrator (voice)
To the Ends of the Earth
2005
as Edmund Talbot
Nathan Barley
2005
as Robin
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Luke Fitzwilliam
Hawking
2004
as Stephen Hawking
Dunkirk
2004
as Lt Jimmy Langley
Fortysomething
2003
as Rory Slippery
To Kill a King
2003
as Royalist
Cambridge Spies
2003
as Edward Hand
Tipping the Velvet
2002
as Freddy
Timeshift
2002
as self
Fields of Gold
2002
as Jeremy
Hills Like White Elephants
2002
as The Man
Spooks
2002
as Jim North
Silent Witness
1996
as Warren Reid
Heartbeat
1992
as Toby Fisher
Heartbeat
1992
as Charles
The Simpsons
1989
as Severus Snape / Prime Minister (voice)
The Simpsons
1989
as Quilloughby (voice)
The Oscars
1953
as Self
The Thing With Feathers
Morning
as Frank
Magik
as Lewis
The Hood
Rio
The Roses
as Theo
Doctor Strange 3
as Doctor Stephen Strange
The War Magician
as Jasper Maskelyne
The Phoenician Scheme
as Uncle Nubar
Rogue Male
Gypsy Boy
Wife and Dog
How to Stop Time
as Tom
The 39 Steps
as Richard Hannay