Biography
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 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
all 161
Movies 111
TV Shows 50
self 31
Narrator 12
Voice 9
Producer 7
We Live in Time (2025)
Eric (2024)
THE CEO OF SEX ( no sex edition ) (2024)
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (2024)
The Book of Clarence (2024)
Mog's Christmas (2023)
The End We Start From (2023)
Arctic: Our Frozen Planet (2023)
Poison (2023)
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)
Minions & More 1 (2022)
Super/Natural (2022)
The Tiger Who Came to Tea (2022)
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge (2022)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home (2022)
Behind the Scenes With Jane Campion (2022)
Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog (2022)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special (2021)
The Power of the Dog (2021)
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)
What If...? (2021)
Great British Theatre (2021)
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel (2021)
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall (2021)
The Mauritanian (2021)
Marvel Studios Legends (2021)
Antarctica (2020)
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King (2020)
The Courier (2020)
1917 (2019)
Between Two Ferns: The Movie (2019)
The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019)
Good Omens (2019)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Cindy-Lou's Yule Log (2019)
The Dog Days of Winter (2019)
Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019)
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)
The Grinch Mini-Movies (2018)
The Grinch (2018)
The Child in Time (2018)
Patrick Melrose (2018)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
The Current War (2018)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Walk with Me (2017)
Doctor Strange: The Score-Cerer Supreme (2017)
Doctor Strange: The Fabric of Reality (2017)
Naples '44 (2016)
Doctor Strange (2016)
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016)
Zoolander 2 (2016)
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock (2016)
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016)
National Theatre Live: Hamlet (2015)
Black Mass (2015)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014)
9 Kisses (2014)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Penguins of Madagascar (2014)
The Imitation Game (2014)
Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D (2014)
The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue (2014)
Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet (2014)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
Unlocking Sherlock (2014)
August: Osage County (2013)
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns (2013)
Walking with Dinosaurs (2013)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
Jerusalem (2013)
Little Favour (2013)
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage (2013)
12 Years a Slave (2013)
The Fifth Estate (2013)
How Sherlock Changed the World (2013)
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Solar Superstorms (2013)
Stephen Hawking Biography (2013)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
Girlfriend in a Coma (2012)
WWI's Tunnels of Death The Big Dig (2012)
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth (2012)
Stephen Hawking's Grand Design (2012)
Parade's End (2012)
Why did you come to Japan? (2012)
The Hollow Crown (2012)
빈센트 반 고흐: 편지로 만나는 그의 삶과 그림 (2012)
Sherlock: Uncovered (2012)
War Horse (2011)
Wreckers (2011)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
The Jonathan Ross Show (2011)
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (2011)
The Whistleblower (2010)
Unlocking Sherlock (2010)
Sherlock (2010)
Third Star (2010)
Four Lions (2010)
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010)
Van Gogh: Painted with Words (2010)
Burlesque Fairytales (2010)
Small Island (2009)
Creation (2009)
The Turning Point (2009)
South Pacific (2009)
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
The Last Enemy (2008)
Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)
Atonement (2007)
Inseparable (2007)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
Amazing Grace (2006)
Starter for 10 (2006)
The One Show (2006)
Broken News (2005)
The Man Who Predicted 9/11 (2005)
To the Ends of the Earth (2005)
Nathan Barley (2005)
Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)
Hawking (2004)
Dunkirk (2004)
Fortysomething (2003)
To Kill a King (2003)
Cambridge Spies (2003)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003)
Tipping the Velvet (2002)
Timeshift (2002)
Fields of Gold (2002)
Hills Like White Elephants (2002)
Spooks (2002)
The View (1997)
Leute heute (1997)
The Daily Show (1996)
Silent Witness (1996)
GMTV (1993)
Heartbeat (1992)
The Simpsons (1989)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
The Oscars (1953)
The Hood
Rio
Morning
Rogue Male
The Thing With Feathers
How to Stop Time
The Roses
The War Magician
Great Performers: 9 Kisses
How to Stop Time
The 39 Steps
Doctor Strange 3
Magik
Gypsy Boy
Migrations
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1976-07-19 (47 years old)
Birth NameBenedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch
Birth PlaceHammersmith, United Kingdom
LifestyleVeganism
ReligionMagic
Height1.83-meter
SpouseSophie Irene Hunter
ChildrenChristopher Cumberbatch
FatherTimothy Carlton
MotherWanda Ventham
RelativesRichard III of England
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesLondon, United Kingdom
Also Known AsBenedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch, Бенедикт Камбербетч, ベネディクト・カンバーバッチ, เบเนดิกต์ คัมเบอร์แบตช์, بيندكت كامبرباتش, 베네딕트 컴버배치, Μπένεντικτ Κάμπερμπατς, 本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇, 班奈狄克·康柏拜區 , בנדיקט קמברבאץ'
AwardsCommander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film, British Academy Television Award for Best Actor, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie, Emmy Award, Laurence Olivier Award
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