
Benedict Cumberbatch
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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 Oscars

The Kelly Clarkson Show

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Simpsons

The Graham Norton Show

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Daily Show

Saturday Night Live

Honest Trailers

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

What If...?

Spooks

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Jonathan Ross Show

Agatha Christie's Marple

Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge

Good Omens

The Bubble

Avengers: Doomsday

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Zoolander 2

Fields of Gold

Walking with Dinosaurs

Minions & More Volume 1

Venom: The Last Dance

Between Two Ferns: The Movie

The Phoenician Scheme

Avengers: Endgame

August: Osage County

Thor: Ragnarok

Avengers: Infinity War

1917

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The Other Boleyn Girl

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Atonement

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

War Horse

Narnia

Black Mass

Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special

Penguins of Madagascar

Dunkirk

Sherlock: Many Happy Returns

12 Years a Slave

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Star Trek Into Darkness

The Grinch Mini-Movies

Small Island

The Mauritanian

Avengers: Secret Wars

Spider-Man: No Way Home

How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking

Stuart: A Life Backwards

What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?

Super/Natural

The Power of the Dog

Eric

The Fifth Estate

The Last Enemy

The Roses

The Imitation Game

To the Ends of the Earth

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Sherlock

Brexit: The Uncivil War

Hawking

Patrick Melrose

The Grinch

The Courier

Antarctica

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

Stephen Hawking's Grand Design

Doctor Strange

Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

Van Gogh: Painted with Words
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