

Acting
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...
Highest rated appearances

The Thing with Feathers
as Dad

1917
as Colonel MacKenzie

Between Two Ferns: The Movie
as Benedict Cumberbatch

Avengers: Endgame
as Doctor Strange

Cindy-Lou's Yule Log
as The Grinch

The Dog Days of Winter
as The Grinch (voice)

Brexit: The Uncivil War
as Dominic Cummings

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
as Shere Khan (voice)

The Grinch
as The Grinch (voice)

The Child in Time
as Stephen Lewis

Avengers: Infinity War
as Doctor Strange

The Current War
as Thomas Edison

Thor: Ragnarok
as Doctor Strange

Walk with Me
as Narrator (voice)

Naples '44
as Norman Lewis (voice)

Doctor Strange
as Dr. Stephen Strange

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Self - Performer

Zoolander 2
as All

Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
as Himself

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
as Sherlock Holmes

National Theatre Live: Hamlet
as Hamlet

Black Mass
as Billy Bulger

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Smaug / Sauron (voice)

Penguins of Madagascar
as Classified (voice)

The Imitation Game
as Alan Turing

Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D
as Narrator (Voice)

The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover
as Agent Classified (voice)

Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
as Narrator

9 Kisses
as Man at Costume Party

Unlocking Sherlock
as Himself / Sherlock Holmes

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

August: Osage County
as Little Charles Aiken

Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
as Sherlock Holmes

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
as Smaug / Sauron

Jerusalem
as Narrator (voice)

Little Favour
as Wallace

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
as Rosencrantz

12 Years a Slave
as William Ford

The Fifth Estate
as Julian Assange

Star Trek Into Darkness
as John Harrison / Khan

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
as Necromancer

Girlfriend in a Coma
as Dante (voice)

Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
as Self / Frankenstein / The Monster

Sherlock: Uncovered
as Sherlock, Self
The Dreams of William Golding
as Reader

War Horse
as Maj. Jamie Stewart

Wreckers
as David

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
as Peter Guillam

The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
as The Creature / Victor Frankenstein

The Whistleblower
as Nick Kaufman

Unlocking Sherlock
as Himself

Third Star
as James

Four Lions
as Negotiator

Van Gogh: Painted with Words
as Vincent Van Gogh

Burlesque Fairytales
as Henry Clark

Creation
as Joseph Dalton Hooker

The Turning Point
as Guy Burgess

The Other Boleyn Girl
as William Carey

Stuart: A Life Backwards
as Alexander Masters

Inseparable
as Joe / Charlie

Atonement
as Paul Marshall

Amazing Grace
as William Pitt

Starter for 10
as Patrick Watts

The Man Who Predicted 9/11
as Narrator (voice)

Hawking
as Stephen Hawking

To Kill a King
as Royalist
Fields of Gold
as Jeremy

Hills Like White Elephants
as The Man