
Benedict Cumberbatch
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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).
Known For

Saturday Night Live

The Oscars

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Graham Norton Show

The Simpsons

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Daily Show

Heartbeat

Top Gear

GMTV

The Hollow Crown

Silent Witness

Marvel Studios Legends

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Spooks

The Jonathan Ross Show

Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge

Agatha Christie's Marple

Good Omens

The Bubble

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Infinity Saga

Zoolander 2

Minions & More Volume 1

Walking with Dinosaurs

Venom: The Last Dance

The Phoenician Scheme

Between Two Ferns: The Movie

Avengers: Doomsday

Avengers: Endgame

Thor: Ragnarok

Atonement

The Other Boleyn Girl

1917

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

Avengers: Infinity War

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Untitled Chronicles of Narnia Film #1

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

War Horse

Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special

Penguins of Madagascar

Black Mass

Avengers: Secret Wars

Dunkirk

12 Years a Slave

Star Trek Into Darkness

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The Grinch Mini-Movies

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

Spider-Man: No Way Home

What If...?

Small Island

The Mauritanian

Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Sherlock

Super/Natural

The Imitation Game

Doctor Strange 3

Eric

The Roses

Doctor Strange

The Courier

The Power of the Dog

Patrick Melrose

Stephen Hawking's Grand Design

The Fifth Estate

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Brexit: The Uncivil War

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

The Grinch
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