Wife & Dog
2027 · Movie
Benedict Cumberbatch
1976-07-19
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Hammersmith, London, England, UK
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).
Filmography
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
2026 · Movie
as Self
Confessions II – The Film
2026 · Movie
as Self
How to Live on Earth
2026 · Movie
as Self
The Thing with Feathers
2025 · Movie
as Dad
The Roses
2025 · Movie
as Theo Rose
The Phoenician Scheme
2025 · Movie
as Uncle Nubar
Together for Palestine
2025 · Movie
as Self
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Tilda Swinton: The Wildcards
2025 · Movie
as Self
The Book of Clarence
2024 · Movie
as Benjamin
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024 · Movie
as Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage)
Placebo: This Search for Meaning
2024 · Movie
as Self
Eric
2024 · TV Show
as Vincent
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023 · Movie
as Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist
Mog's Christmas
2023 · Movie
as Mr. Thomas (voice)
Poison
2023 · Movie
as Harry Pope
The End We Start From
2023 · Movie
as AB
Arctic: Our Frozen Planet
2023 · Movie
as Narrator
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
2023 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog
2022 · Movie
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion
2022 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Minions & More Volume 1
2022 · Movie
as The Grinch (voice)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022 · Movie
as Self - Doctor Stephen Strange
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022 · Movie
as Doctor Stephen Strange
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
2022 · Movie
as Daddy (voice)
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge
2022 · TV Show
as Self
Super/Natural
2022 · TV Show
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
2021 · Movie
as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage)
The Power of the Dog
2021 · Movie
as Phil Burbank
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021 · Movie
as Louis Wain
The Mauritanian
2021 · Movie
as Lt. Stuart Couch
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021 · Movie
as Doctor Strange
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021 · Movie
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021 · Movie
as Self
What If...?
2021 · TV Show
as Doctor Strange (voice), Doctor Strange / Strange Supreme (voice), Doctor Strange / Strange-Supreme (voice), Strange Supreme / Demon Strange (voice)
Marvel Studios Legends
2021 · TV Show
as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Courier
2020 · Movie
as Greville Wynne
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020 · Movie
as Self
Antarctica
2020 · Movie
as Self - Narrator
Cindy-Lou's Yule Log
2019 · Movie
as The Grinch
The Dog Days of Winter
2019 · Movie
as The Grinch (voice)
Brexit: The Uncivil War
2019 · Movie
as Dominic Cummings
1917
2019 · Movie
as Colonel MacKenzie
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
2019 · Movie
as Benedict Cumberbatch
Avengers: Endgame
2019 · Movie
as Doctor Strange
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · TV Show
as Self
Good Omens
2019 · TV Show
as Satan (voice)
The Grinch
2018 · Movie
as The Grinch (voice)
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
2018 · Movie
as Shere Khan (voice)
The Current War
2018 · Movie
as Thomas Edison
The Child in Time
2018 · Movie
as Stephen Lewis
Avengers: Infinity War
2018 · Movie
as Doctor Strange
Patrick Melrose
2018 · TV Show
as Patrick Melrose
Thor: Ragnarok
2017 · Movie
as Doctor Strange
Walk with Me
2017 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Zoolander 2
2016 · Movie
as All
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016 · Movie
as Sherlock Holmes
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016 · Movie
as Self - Performer
Naples '44
2016 · Movie
as Norman Lewis (voice)
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016 · Movie
as Himself
Doctor Strange
2016 · Movie
as Dr. Stephen Strange
Black Mass
2015 · Movie
as Billy Bulger
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2015 · Movie
as Hamlet
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 · Movie
as Smaug / Sauron (voice)
The Imitation Game
2014 · Movie
as Alan Turing
Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
2014 · Movie
as Narrator
Unlocking Sherlock
2014 · Movie
as Himself / Sherlock Holmes
Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D
2014 · Movie
as Narrator (Voice)
Penguins of Madagascar
2014 · Movie
as Classified (voice)
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
2014 · Movie
as Agent Classified (voice)
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
2014 · Movie
as Self
9 Kisses
2014 · Movie
as Man at Costume Party
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · TV Show
as Self
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
2013 · Movie
as Sherlock Holmes
Star Trek Into Darkness
2013 · Movie
as John Harrison / Khan
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013 · Movie
as Smaug / Sauron
12 Years a Slave
2013 · Movie
as William Ford
August: Osage County
2013 · Movie
as Little Charles Aiken
The Fifth Estate
2013 · Movie
as Julian Assange
Little Favour
2013 · Movie
as Wallace
Jerusalem
2013 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013 · Movie
as Rosencrantz
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 · Movie
as Necromancer
Girlfriend in a Coma
2012 · Movie
as Dante (voice)
Sherlock: Uncovered
2012 · Movie
as Sherlock, Self
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
2012 · Movie
as Self / Frankenstein / The Monster
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The Dreams of William Golding
2012 · Movie
as Reader
Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
2012 · TV Show
as Narrator (voice)
Parade's End
2012 · TV Show
as Christopher Tietjens
WWI's Tunnels of Death: The Big Dig
2012 · TV Show
as Narrator (Voice)
The Hollow Crown
2012 · TV Show
as Richard, Richard III
Why did you come to Japan?
2012 · TV Show
as Self
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011 · Movie
as Peter Guillam
War Horse
2011 · Movie
as Maj. Jamie Stewart
Wreckers
2011 · Movie
as David
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
2011 · Movie
as The Creature / Victor Frankenstein
The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch
2011 · Movie
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011 · TV Show
as Self
Four Lions
2010 · Movie
as Negotiator
The Whistleblower
2010 · Movie
as Nick Kaufman
Third Star
2010 · Movie
as James
Burlesque Fairytales
2010 · Movie
as Henry Clark
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
2010 · Movie
as Vincent Van Gogh
Unlocking Sherlock
2010 · Movie
as Himself
Sherlock
2010 · TV Show
as Sherlock Holmes
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
2010 · TV Show
as Stephen Hawking
Conan
2010 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Creation
2009 · Movie
as Joseph Dalton Hooker
The Turning Point
2009 · Movie
as Guy Burgess
Small Island
2009 · TV Show
as Bernard
South Pacific
2009 · TV Show
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Other Boleyn Girl
2008 · Movie
as William Carey
The Last Enemy
2008 · TV Show
as Stephen Ezard
Atonement
2007 · Movie
as Paul Marshall
Stuart: A Life Backwards
2007 · Movie
as Alexander Masters
Inseparable
2007 · Movie
as Joe / Charlie
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · TV Show
as Self, Self - Guest
Starter for 10
2006 · Movie
as Patrick Watts
Amazing Grace
2006 · Movie
as William Pitt
The One Show
2006 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
The Man Who Predicted 9/11
2005 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Broken News
2005 · TV Show
as Will Parker
To the Ends of the Earth
2005 · TV Show
as Edmund Talbot
Nathan Barley
2005 · TV Show
as Robin
The Colbert Report
2005 · TV Show
as Smaug (voice)
Hawking
2004 · Movie
as Stephen Hawking
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · TV Show
as Luke Fitzwilliam
Dunkirk
2004 · TV Show
as Lt Jimmy Langley
To Kill a King
2003 · Movie
as Royalist
Fortysomething
2003 · TV Show
as Rory Slippery
Cambridge Spies
2003 · TV Show
as Edward Hand
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
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Fields of Gold
2002 · Movie
as Jeremy
Hills Like White Elephants
2002 · Movie
as The Man
Spooks
2002 · TV Show
as Jim North
Tipping the Velvet
2002 · TV Show
as Freddy
Timeshift
2002 · TV Show
as self
Top Gear
2002 · TV Show
as Self
Leute heute
1997 · TV Show
as Self
The View
1997 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Silent Witness
1996 · TV Show
as Warren Reid
The Daily Show
1996 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
GMTV
1993 · TV Show
as Self
Heartbeat
1992 · TV Show
as Toby Fisher, Charles
Have I Got News for You
1990 · TV Show
as Self - Host
The Simpsons
1989 · TV Show
as Severus Snape / Prime Minister (voice), Quilloughby (voice)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · TV Show
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975 · TV Show
as Self - Host, Self - Cameo (uncredited)
The Oscars
1953 · TV Show
as Self
No image
Blood on Snow
· Movie
as The Fisherman
Morning
· Movie
as Frank
No image
Last Flight
· Movie
as Kirk Wallace Johnson
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
· TV Show
as Self - Presenter
Crew Credits
The Roses
2025 · Movie
Executive Producer
We Live in Time
2024 · Movie
Executive Producer
Eric
2024 · TV Show
Executive Producer
The End We Start From
2023 · Movie
Executive Producer
The Mauritanian
2021 · Movie
Producer
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021 · Movie
Executive Producer
The Courier
2020 · Movie
Executive Producer
The Child in Time
2018 · Movie
Executive Producer
Patrick Melrose
2018 · TV Show
Executive Producer
Little Favour
2013 · Movie
Producer
Rogue Male
· Movie
Producer
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Migrations
· Movie
Producer
No image
Last Flight
· Movie
Executive Producer
Morning
· Movie
Executive Producer
