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Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch CBE is an English actor. A graduate of the Victoria University of Manchester, he 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.

Aliases
  • Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch
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Filmography

Doctor Strange

2016
as Dr. Stephen Strange

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

2022
as Stephen Strange

Spider-Man: No Way Home

2021
as Doctor Strange

1917

2019
as Colonel MacKenzie

The Imitation Game

2014
as Alan Turing

Avengers: Infinity War

2018
as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange

The Grinch

2018
as Grinch (voice)

12 Years a Slave

2013
as William Ford

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

2018
as Shere Khan

The Power of the Dog

2021
as Phil Burbank

Thor: Ragnarok

2017
as Doctor Strange

Avengers: Endgame

2019
as Doctor Strange

Penguins of Madagascar

2014
as Classified (voice)

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

2016
as Sherlock Holmes

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

2013
as Smaug / The Necromancer

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2012
as Necromancer

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

2023
as Henry Sugar

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

2014
as Smaug / Necromancer (voice)

Star Trek: Into Darkness

2013
as Khan Noonien Singh

The Other Boleyn Girl

2008
as William Carey

The Courier

2021
as Greville Wynne

The Mauritanian

2021
as Lt. Stuart Couch

War Horse

2011
as Maj. Jamie Stewart

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

2020
as Louis Wain

The Current War

2019
as Thomas Edison

Black Mass

2015
as Billy Bulger

Atonement

2007
as Paul Marshall

Poison

2023
as Harry

Van Gogh: Painted with Words

2010
as Vincent Van Gogh

Sherlock: The Final Problem

2017
as Sherlock Holmes

Between Two Ferns: The Movie

2019
as Himself

The Bubble

2022
as Himself

Zoolander 2

2016
as All

Unlocking Sherlock

2014
as Himself / Sherlock Holmes

Little Favour

2013
as Wallace

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

2014
as Self - Actor, Sherlock

9 Kisses

2014
as Man at Costume Party

Four Lions

2010
as The Negotiator

Wreckers

2011
as David

The Whistleblower

2010
as Nick Kaufman

Electric Cinema: How to Behave

2012
as Humphrey Bogart

Inseparable

2007
as Joe / Charlie

To Kill a King

2003
as Royalist

Walk with Me

2017
as Narrator

How to Stop Time

as Tom Hazard

Amazing Grace

2006
as William Pitt

Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock

2018
as Benedict Cumberbatch

The Dog Days of Winter

2019
as The Grinch

Flying Horse

as Harry Larkyns

Fields of Gold

2002
as Jeremy

Magik

2016
as Lewis

Lennon or McCartney

2014
as Himself (archive footage)

Starter for 10

2006
as Patrick Watts

Gypsy Boy

2021

Hawking

2004
as Stephen Hawking

The Fifth Estate

2013
as Julian Assange

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

2015
as Hamlet

The End We Start From

2023

Burlesque Fairytales

2010
as Henry Clark

The War Magician

as Jasper Maskelyne

Prince Charles' Other Mistress

2008
as Narrator

Creation

2009
as Joseph Dalton Hooker

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

2011
as Peter Guillam

August: Osage County

2013
as Little Charles Aiken

How Sherlock Changed the World

2013
as Sherlock Holmes

Stuart: A Life Backwards

2007
as Alexander Masters

Naples '44

2016
as Norman Lewis

Jerusalem

2013
as Narrator

The Child in Time

2018
as Stephen Lewis

Rio

The Battle of Dol Guldur

2015
as Necromancer (voice)

Doctor Strange: The Fabric of Reality

2017
as Benedict Cumberbatch

Mog's Christmas

2023
as Mr Thomas

Third Star

2010
as James

Brexit: The Uncivil War

2019
as Dominic Cummings

National Theatre Live - Frankenstein - Jonny Lee Miller

2011
as Victor Frankenstein

National Theatre Live: Fifty Years on Stage

2013
as Rosencrantz

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein

2011
as The Creature / Victor Frankenstein

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

2019
as Daddy (voice)

Producer

Movie How to Stop Time
Movie Rio
Movie The Child in Time 2018