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).
101 movies · 50 shows
How to Live on Earth
2026·0.0
Confessions II – The Film
2026·8.8
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
2026·7.0
The Thing with Feathers
2025·6.5
Together for Palestine
2025·8.2
The Roses
2025·6.7
Tilda Swinton: The Wildcards
2025·0.0
The Phoenician Scheme
2025·6.5
Placebo: This Search for Meaning
2024·0.0
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
2024·7.4
The Book of Clarence
2024·5.9
Mog's Christmas
2023·7.3
The End We Start From
2023·5.8
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
2023·7.0
Arctic: Our Frozen Planet
2023·7.0
Poison
2023·6.9
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023·7.3
Minions & More Volume 1
2022·7.0
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
2022·6.4
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022·7.1
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022·7.2
Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion
2022·6.1
Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog
2022·0.0
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021·7.9
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
2021·6.9
The Power of the Dog
2021·6.7
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021·6.9
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021·7.0
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021·7.5
The Mauritanian
2021·7.4
Antarctica
2020·6.3
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020·8.1
The Courier
2020·7.0
1917
2019·8.0
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
2019·5.9
Avengers: Endgame
2019·8.2
Cindy-Lou's Yule Log
2019·10.0
The Dog Days of Winter
2019·5.8
Brexit: The Uncivil War
2019·6.6
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
2018·6.5
The Grinch
2018·6.9
The Child in Time
2018·5.8
Avengers: Infinity War
2018·8.2
The Current War
2018·6.7
Thor: Ragnarok
2017·7.6
Walk with Me
2017·5.8
Naples '44
2016·5.7
Doctor Strange
2016·7.4
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016·7.2
Zoolander 2
2016·4.9
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
2016·7.3
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016·7.8
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2015·7.5
Black Mass
2015·6.5
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014·7.3
Penguins of Madagascar
2014·6.5
The Imitation Game
2014·8.0
Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D
2014·6.5
The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
2014·6.3
Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
2014·7.6
9 Kisses
2014·5.5
Unlocking Sherlock
2014·7.9
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
2014·0.0
August: Osage County
2013·6.9
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
2013·8.0
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013·7.6
Jerusalem
2013·6.6
Little Favour
2013·6.5
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013·6.2
12 Years a Slave
2013·7.9
The Fifth Estate
2013·6.0
Star Trek Into Darkness
2013·7.3
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012·7.4
Girlfriend in a Coma
2012·6.9
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
2012·7.0
Sherlock: Uncovered
2012·10.0
The Dreams of William Golding
2012·0.0
War Horse
2011·7.3
Wreckers
2011·5.2
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011·6.6
The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch
2011·0.0
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
2011·7.7
The Whistleblower
2010·6.7
Unlocking Sherlock
2010·6.5
Third Star
2010·7.0
Four Lions
2010·7.0
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
2010·7.3
Burlesque Fairytales
2010·5.6
Creation
2009·6.4
The Turning Point
2009·0.0
The Other Boleyn Girl
2008·6.7
Stuart: A Life Backwards
2007·7.4
Inseparable
2007·7.1
Atonement
2007·7.6
Amazing Grace
2006·6.9
Starter for 10
2006·6.4
The Man Who Predicted 9/11
2005·7.0
Hawking
2004·7.0
To Kill a King
2003·5.8
Fields of Gold
2002·0.0
Hills Like White Elephants
2002·8.0