Benedict Cumberbatch Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography

Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch

Acting

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).

Filmography Movies

Acting

The Man Who Predicted 9/11 movie poster
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The Man Who Predicted 9/11

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The Man Who Predicted 9/11
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Atonement movie poster
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Atonement

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Atonement
Paul Marshall
Creation movie poster
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Creation

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Creation
Joseph Dalton Hooker
The Other Boleyn Girl movie poster
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The Other Boleyn Girl

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The Other Boleyn Girl
William Carey
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special movie poster
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Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special

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Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage)
Hawking movie poster
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Hawking

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Hawking
Stephen Hawking
Starter for 10 movie poster
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Starter for 10

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Starter for 10
Patrick Watts
Amazing Grace movie poster
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Amazing Grace

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Amazing Grace
William Pitt
Four Lions movie poster
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Four Lions

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Four Lions
Negotiator
Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog movie poster
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Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog

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Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog

Production

The End We Start From movie poster
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The End We Start From

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The End We Start From
Executive Producer
Rogue Male movie poster
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Rogue Male

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Rogue Male
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The Child in Time movie poster
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The Child in Time

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The Child in Time
Executive Producer
We Live in Time movie poster
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We Live in Time

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We Live in Time
Executive Producer
The Courier movie poster
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The Courier

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The Courier
Executive Producer
The Mauritanian movie poster
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The Mauritanian

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The Mauritanian
Producer
MigrationsMOVIE
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Migrations

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Migrations
Producer
The Roses movie poster
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The Roses

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The Roses
Executive Producer
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain movie poster
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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Executive Producer
Little Favour movie poster
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Little Favour

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Little Favour
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Gallery

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