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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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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
Saturday Night Live
The Oscars
The Graham Norton Show
The Kelly Clarkson Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Simpsons
The Daily Show
The One Show
Heartbeat
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Top Gear
GMTV
The Hollow Crown
Silent Witness
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Timeshift
Marvel Studios Legends
Spooks
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Jonathan Ross Show
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge
Agatha Christie's Marple
Good Omens
The Bubble
Avengers: Doomsday
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Zoolander 2
Fields of Gold
Minions & More 1
Walking with Dinosaurs
Venom: The Last Dance
The Phoenician Scheme
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Avengers: Endgame
August: Osage County
Thor: Ragnarok
1917
The Other Boleyn Girl
Avengers: Infinity War
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Atonement
Narnia
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse
Black Mass
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
Penguins of Madagascar
Avengers: Secret Wars
Dunkirk
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
12 Years a Slave
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
What If... Ultron Won?
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
The Grinch Mini-Movies
Star Trek Into Darkness
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
What If...?
Spider-Man: No Way Home
The Mauritanian
Small Island
What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Stuart: A Life Backwards
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D
What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?
Hawking
Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
The Grinch
Doctor Strange
Eric
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
The Courier
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
The Roses
The Last Enemy
To the Ends of the Earth
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Antarctica
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Super/Natural
The Imitation Game
The Fifth Estate
Patrick Melrose
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
The Power of the Dog
Sherlock
Production Credits
The Mauritanian
We Live in Time
Patrick Melrose
The Courier
Eric
The Roses
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