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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

Mog's Christmas

2023
as Mr Thomas

Poison

2023
as Harry

The End We Start From

2023

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

2023
as Henry Sugar

The Bubble

2022
as Himself

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

2022
as Stephen Strange

The Mauritanian

2021
as Lt. Stuart Couch

The Courier

2021
as Greville Wynne

Spider-Man: No Way Home

2021
as Doctor Strange

The Power of the Dog

2021
as Phil Burbank

Gypsy Boy

2021

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

2020
as Louis Wain

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

2019
as Daddy (voice)

1917

2019
as Colonel MacKenzie

Between Two Ferns: The Movie

2019
as Himself

Avengers: Endgame

2019
as Doctor Strange

Brexit: The Uncivil War

2019
as Dominic Cummings

The Dog Days of Winter

2019
as The Grinch

The Current War

2019
as Thomas Edison

Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock

2018
as Benedict Cumberbatch

The Child in Time

2018
as Stephen Lewis

Avengers: Infinity War

2018
as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

2018
as Shere Khan

The Grinch

2018
as Grinch (voice)

Thor: Ragnarok

2017
as Doctor Strange

Sherlock: The Final Problem

2017
as Sherlock Holmes

Doctor Strange: The Fabric of Reality

2017
as Benedict Cumberbatch

Walk with Me

2017
as Narrator

Magik

2016
as Lewis

Doctor Strange

2016
as Dr. Stephen Strange

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

2016
as Sherlock Holmes

Naples '44

2016
as Norman Lewis

Zoolander 2

2016
as All

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

2015
as Hamlet

Black Mass

2015
as Billy Bulger

The Battle of Dol Guldur

2015
as Necromancer (voice)

9 Kisses

2014
as Man at Costume Party

The Imitation Game

2014
as Alan Turing

Penguins of Madagascar

2014
as Classified (voice)

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

2014
as Self - Actor, Sherlock

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

2014
as Smaug / Necromancer (voice)

Lennon or McCartney

2014
as Himself (archive footage)

Unlocking Sherlock

2014
as Himself / Sherlock Holmes

The Fifth Estate

2013
as Julian Assange

August: Osage County

2013
as Little Charles Aiken

Little Favour

2013
as Wallace

12 Years a Slave

2013
as William Ford

Jerusalem

2013
as Narrator

How Sherlock Changed the World

2013
as Sherlock Holmes

National Theatre Live: Fifty Years on Stage

2013
as Rosencrantz

Star Trek: Into Darkness

2013
as Khan Noonien Singh

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

2013
as Smaug / The Necromancer

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2012
as Necromancer

Electric Cinema: How to Behave

2012
as Humphrey Bogart

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein

2011
as The Creature / Victor Frankenstein

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

2011
as Peter Guillam

National Theatre Live - Frankenstein - Jonny Lee Miller

2011
as Victor Frankenstein

Wreckers

2011
as David

War Horse

2011
as Maj. Jamie Stewart

Four Lions

2010
as The Negotiator

The Whistleblower

2010
as Nick Kaufman

Third Star

2010
as James

Van Gogh: Painted with Words

2010
as Vincent Van Gogh

Burlesque Fairytales

2010
as Henry Clark

Creation

2009
as Joseph Dalton Hooker

Prince Charles' Other Mistress

2008
as Narrator

The Other Boleyn Girl

2008
as William Carey

Stuart: A Life Backwards

2007
as Alexander Masters

Inseparable

2007
as Joe / Charlie

Atonement

2007
as Paul Marshall

Starter for 10

2006
as Patrick Watts

Amazing Grace

2006
as William Pitt

Hawking

2004
as Stephen Hawking

To Kill a King

2003
as Royalist

Fields of Gold

2002
as Jeremy

The War Magician

as Jasper Maskelyne

Rio

How to Stop Time

as Tom Hazard

Flying Horse

as Harry Larkyns

Producer

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