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Benedict Cumberbatch
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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 …
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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).
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BODY OF WORK
Benedict Cumberbatch's Filmography
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Wife & Dog
How to Live on Earth
as Self
Confessions II – The Film
as Self
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
as Self
The Thing with Feathers
as Dad
Together for Palestine
as Self
The Roses
as Theo Rose
Tilda Swinton: The Wildcards
as Self
The Phoenician Scheme
as Uncle Nubar
Placebo: This Search for Meaning
as Self
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
as Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage)
The Book of Clarence
as Benjamin
Mog's Christmas
as Mr. Thomas (voice)
The End We Start From
as AB
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
as Self (archive footage)
Arctic: Our Frozen Planet
as Narrator
Poison
as Harry Pope
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
as Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist
Minions & More Volume 1
as The Grinch (voice)
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
as Daddy (voice)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
as Self - Doctor Stephen Strange
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
as Doctor Stephen Strange
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
as Self (archive footage)
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion
as Self (archive footage)
Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog
Spider-Man: No Way Home
as Doctor Strange
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage)
The Power of the Dog
as Phil Burbank
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
as Louis Wain
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
as Self
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
The Mauritanian
as Lt. Stuart Couch
Antarctica
as Self - Narrator
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
as Self
The Courier
as Greville Wynne
1917
as Colonel MacKenzie
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
as Benedict Cumberbatch
Avengers: Endgame
as Doctor Strange
The Dog Days of Winter
as The Grinch (voice)
Cindy-Lou's Yule Log
as The Grinch
Brexit: The Uncivil War
as Dominic Cummings
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
as Shere Khan (voice)
The Grinch
as The Grinch (voice)
The Child in Time
as Stephen Lewis
Avengers: Infinity War
as Doctor Strange
The Current War
as Thomas Edison
Thor: Ragnarok
as Doctor Strange
Walk with Me
as Narrator (voice)
Naples '44
as Norman Lewis (voice)
Doctor Strange
as Dr. Stephen Strange
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Self - Performer
Zoolander 2
as All
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
as Himself
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
as Sherlock Holmes
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
as Hamlet
Black Mass
as Billy Bulger
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Smaug / Sauron (voice)
Penguins of Madagascar
as Classified (voice)
The Imitation Game
as Alan Turing
Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D
as Narrator (Voice)
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
as Agent Classified (voice)
Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
as Narrator
9 Kisses
as Man at Costume Party
Unlocking Sherlock
as Himself / Sherlock Holmes
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
as Self
August: Osage County
as Little Charles Aiken
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
as Sherlock Holmes
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
as Smaug / Sauron
Jerusalem
as Narrator (voice)
Little Favour
as Wallace
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
as Rosencrantz
12 Years a Slave
as William Ford
The Fifth Estate
as Julian Assange
Star Trek Into Darkness
as John Harrison / Khan
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
as Necromancer
Girlfriend in a Coma
as Dante (voice)
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
as Self / Frankenstein / The Monster
Sherlock: Uncovered
as Sherlock, Self
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The Dreams of William Golding
as Reader
War Horse
as Maj. Jamie Stewart
Wreckers
as David
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
as Peter Guillam
The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
as The Creature / Victor Frankenstein
The Whistleblower
as Nick Kaufman
Unlocking Sherlock
as Himself
Third Star
as James
Four Lions
as Negotiator
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
as Vincent Van Gogh
Burlesque Fairytales
as Henry Clark
Creation
as Joseph Dalton Hooker
The Turning Point
as Guy Burgess
The Other Boleyn Girl
as William Carey
Stuart: A Life Backwards
as Alexander Masters
Inseparable
as Joe / Charlie
Atonement
as Paul Marshall
Amazing Grace
as William Pitt
Starter for 10
as Patrick Watts
The Man Who Predicted 9/11
as Narrator (voice)
Hawking
as Stephen Hawking
To Kill a King
as Royalist
No Poster
Fields of Gold
as Jeremy
Hills Like White Elephants
as The Man
Morning
as Frank
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Last Flight
as Kirk Wallace Johnson
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Blood on Snow
as The Fisherman
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Untitled Doctor Strange Movie
as Doctor Stephen Strange