Benedict Cumberbatch biography
Benedict Cumberbatch is an English actor (born 1976), born on 19 July 1976 in Hammersmith.
Benedict Cumberbatch's screen career began in 1998 with Heartbeat.
Benedict Cumberbatch has appeared in 122 films and 44 television or streaming titles.
The most recent films are The Roses (2025), The Phoenician Scheme (2025), The Thing with Feathers (2025).
Honours include Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, Commander of the Order of the British Empire and Laurence Olivier Awards.
Coming up next: Avengers: Doomsday (2026), Wife & Dog (2027), Blood on Snow (2027).
- Also known as
- Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch
- Born
- 19 July 1976 (age 50)
- Birthplace
- Hammersmith
- Work
- Film producer, Voice actor, Film actor, Stage actor, Television actor
- Film industries
- Hollywood and beyond
- Years active
- 1998 to present
- Awards
- Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Laurence Olivier Awards
- British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
- Satellite Award for Best Actor , Miniseries or Television Film
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
Benedict Cumberbatch filmography
125 films and 44 television or streaming titles, newest first.
Films
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | Wife & Dog | TBA | Post-production | |
| 2027 | Blood on Snow | The Fisherman | Post-production | |
| 2026 | Avengers: Doomsday | Doctor Stephen Strange | Post-production | |
| 2025 | The Roses | Theo Rose | Also executive producer | |
| 2025 | The Phoenician Scheme | Uncle Nubar | ||
| 2025 | The Thing with Feathers | Dad | ||
| 2024 | We Live in Time | Also executive producer | ||
| 2023 | The Book of Clarence | Benjamin | ||
| 2023 | Poison | Harry Pope | Short film | |
| 2023 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar | Henry Sugar / Max Engelman | Short film | |
| 2023 | The End We Start From | AB | Also executive producer | |
| 2022 | Spider-Man: No Way Home - The More Fun Stuff Version | English | ||
| 2022 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Doctor Stephen Strange | ||
| 2022 | Super/Natural | Documentary: 6 episodes | ||
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Doctor Stephen Strange | ||
| 2021 | The Power of the Dog | Phil Burbank | ||
| 2021 | The Mauritanian | Stuart Couch | Also producer | |
| 2021 | The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Louis Wain | Also executive producer | |
| 2021 | Sleep Sound | Animated short | ||
| 2020 | The Courier | Greville Wynne | Also executive producer | |
| 2019 | 1917 | Colonel Mackenzie | ||
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | Doctor Stephen Strange | ||
| 2019 | Between Two Ferns: The Movie | English | ||
| 2018 | Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle | Shere Khan | Motion capture and voice | |
| 2018 | The Grinch | The Grinch | Voice |
Show all 125 films
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | The Dog Days of Winter | The Grinch | Voice; short film | |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | Doctor Stephen Strange | ||
| 2017 | Walk with Me | English | ||
| 2017 | Thor: Ragnarok | Doctor Stephen Strange | ||
| 2017 | The Current War | Thomas Edison | Also executive producer | |
| 2017 | Walk with Me , A Journal into Mindfulness featuring Thich Nhat Hanh | Documentary | ||
| 2016 | Doctor Strange | Doctor Stephen Strange / Dormammu (motion capture and voice) | Uncredited as Dormammu | |
| 2016 | Zoolander 2 | All | Cameo | |
| 2016 | Richard III | |||
| 2016 | Henry VI, Part 2 | |||
| 2015 | Black Mass | William M. Bulger | ||
| 2015 | Magik | English | ||
| 2015 | My Dear Bessie | Chris | ||
| 2014 | Lennon or McCartney | English | ||
| 2014 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Smaug / Sauron | Motion capture and voices | |
| 2014 | The Imitation Game | Alan Turing | ||
| 2014 | Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet | English | ||
| 2014 | Sherlock: The Network | Sherlock Holmes | ||
| 2014 | Rumpole and the Sleeping Partners | Rumpole | ||
| 2014 | Rumpole and the Old Boy Net | Rumpole | ||
| 2014 | Penguins of Madagascar | Classified | Voice | |
| 2014 | Lego The Hobbit | Smaug / The Necromancer | ||
| 2014 | Late Night Tales: Django Django | Track: "Flat of Angles (Part 4)" | ||
| 2014 | Globalised Slavery | Documentary by The Guardian | ||
| 2014 | Cristiano Ronaldo: The World at His Feet | Documentary | ||
| 2013 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Smaug / Sauron | Motion capture and voices | |
| 2013 | Little Favour | Wallace | Short film; also producer | |
| 2013 | The Fifth Estate | Julian Assange | ||
| 2013 | August: Osage County | "Little" Charles Aiken | ||
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | William Prince Ford | ||
| 2013 | Star Trek Into Darkness | Khan Noonien Singh | ||
| 2013 | Jerusalem | Documentary | ||
| 2013 | Usher House | Opera by Gordon Getty | ||
| 2013 | Neverwhere | Angel Islington | ||
| 2013 | Late Night Tales: Röyksopp | Track: "Flat of Angles (Part 2)" | ||
| 2013 | Late Night Tales: Bonobo | Track: "Flat of Angles (Part 3)" | ||
| 2013 | Copenhagen | Werner Heisenberg | ||
| 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Smaug / The Necromancer | Motion capture and voices | |
| 2012 | Stephen Hawking's Grand Design | Documentary; 3 episodes | ||
| 2012 | Rumpole and the Man of God | Young Rumpole | ||
| 2012 | Rumpole and the Gentle Art of Blackmail | Young Rumpole | ||
| 2012 | Rumpole and the Explosive Evidence | Young Rumpole | ||
| 2012 | Rumpole and the Expert Witness | Young Rumpole | ||
| 2012 | Our War | Documentary narrating Lt. Mark Evison diary; 1 episodes | ||
| 2012 | Late Night Tales: Friendly Fires | Track: "Flat of Angles (Part 1)" | ||
| 2012 | Girlfriend in a Coma | Dante Alighieri (voice) | Documentary | |
| 2011 | War Horse | Major Jamie Stewart | ||
| 2011 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Peter Guillam | ||
| 2011 | Wreckers | David | ||
| 2011 | Tom and Viv | T. S. Eliot | ||
| 2011 | The Nightjar | Narrator | ||
| 2011 | Curiosity | Documentary; episode "Did God Create the Universe?" | ||
| 2010 | The Whistleblower | Nick Kaufman | ||
| 2010 | Third Star | James | ||
| 2010 | Four Lions | Negotiator | ||
| 2010 | Words for You: The Next Chapter | Narrator | ||
| 2010 | Rumpole and the Family Pride | Young Rumpole | ||
| 2010 | Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle | Young Rumpole | ||
| 2010 | Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking | Documentary; 3 episodes | ||
| 2009 | Creation | Joseph Dalton Hooker | ||
| 2009 | Burlesque Fairytales | Henry Clark | ||
| 2009 | South Pacific | Documentary; 6 episodes | ||
| 2009 | Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders | Young Rumpole | ||
| 2009 | Little Red Hen | Narrator | ||
| 2009 | Good Evening | Dudley Moore | ||
| 2008 | The Other Boleyn Girl | William Carey | ||
| 2008 | Words and Music: Italian Fantasy | Narrator | ||
| 2008 | The Tiger's Tale | Narrator | ||
| 2008 | The Pillow Book | Tadanobu | ||
| 2008 | Spellbound | Dr. Murchison | ||
| 2008 | Rainy Season | Narrator | ||
| 2008 | Metamorphosis | Narrator | ||
| 2008 | Last Days of Grace | GF | ||
| 2008 | Doctor Who: Forty-Five | Howard Carter / Thing 2 | ||
| 2008 | Chatterton: The Allington Solution | Thomas Chatterton | ||
| 2008 | Cabin Pressure | Captain Martin Crieff | ||
| 2008 | Blake's 7: The Early Years | Townsend | ||
| 2008 | At War with Wellington | Duke of Wellington | ||
| 2007 | Atonement | Paul Marshall | ||
| 2007 | Inseparable | Joe / Charlie | Short film | |
| 2006 | Starter for 10 | Patrick Watts | ||
| 2006 | Amazing Grace | Prime Minister William Pitt | ||
| 2006 | The Possessed | Nikolai Stavrogin | ||
| 2006 | Casanova | Track: "Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova" | ||
| 2005 | The Cocktail Party | Peter Quilpe | ||
| 2005 | Seven Women | Tovey | ||
| 2005 | Medical Humanities: Baptism by Rotation | Narrator | ||
| 2005 | Le Pere Goriot | Narrator | ||
| 2005 | Fieldstudy: The Field | Narrator | ||
| 2004 | The Surgeon's Mate | Narrator | ||
| 2004 | The Recruiting Officer | Worthy | ||
| 2004 | The Raj Quartet | Nigel Rowan | ||
| 2004 | The Odyssey | Telemachus | ||
| 2004 | The Far Side of the World | Narrator | ||
| 2004 | The Biggest Secret | Captain Rob Collins | ||
| 2004 | Mr. Norris Changes Trains | Narrator | ||
| 2004 | Mansfield Park | Edmund Bertram | ||
| 2004 | Kepler | Johannes Kepler | ||
| 2003 | To Kill a King | Royalist | ||
| 2002 | Hills Like White Elephants | The Man | Short film |
Television and streaming
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Eric | Vincent Anderson / Eric (voice) | lead role; miniseries; also executive producer | |
| 2023 | Mog’s Christmas | Mr. Thomas (voice) | Animated Christmas special | |
| 2021 | What If...? | Doctor Stephen Strange, Doctor Strange Supreme (voice) | 6 episodes | |
| 2019 | Brexit: The Uncivil War | Dominic Cummings | Television film | |
| 2019 | The Tiger Who Came to Tea | Daddy (voice) | Television film | |
| 2019 | Good Omens | Satan (voice) | 3 episodes | |
| 2018 | Patrick Melrose | Patrick Melrose | 5 episodes; also executive producer | |
| 2017 | The Child in Time | Stephen Lewis | Television film | |
| 2017 | The Final Problem | English | ||
| 2017 | The Lying Detective | English | ||
| 2017 | The Six Thatchers | English | ||
| 2016 | The Abominable Bride | English | ||
| 2016 | The Hollow Crown | Richard III | 2 episodes | |
| 2014 | His Last Vow | English | ||
| 2014 | The Sign of Three | English | ||
| 2014 | The Empty Hearse | English | ||
| 2014 | The Colbert Report | Smaug (voice) | Episode #1,443 | |
| 2013 | Many Happy Returns | English | ||
| 2013 | The Simpsons | British Prime Minister / Severus Snape; Quilloughby, Imaginary Quilloughby (voices) | 2 episodes | |
| 2012 | The Reichenbach Fall | English | ||
| 2012 | The Hounds of Baskerville | English | ||
| 2012 | A Scandal in Belgravia | English | ||
| 2012 | Parade's End | Christopher Tietjens | 5 episodes | |
| 2010 | The Great Game | English | ||
| 2010 | The Blind Banker | English |
Show all 44 titles
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | A Study in Pink | English | ||
| 2010 | Van Gogh: Painted with Words | Vincent van Gogh | Television film | |
| 2010 | The Rattigan Enigma | Presenter | Documentary | |
| 2010 | Sherlock | Sherlock Holmes | 13 episodes | |
| 2009 | Small Island | Bernard | Television film | |
| 2009 | Marple: Murder Is Easy | Luke Fitzwilliam | Television film | |
| 2008 | The Last Enemy | Stephen Ezard | 5 episodes | |
| 2007 | Stuart: A Life Backwards | Alexander Masters | Television film | |
| 2005 | To the Ends of the Earth | Edmund Talbot | 3 episodes | |
| 2005 | Nathan Barley | Robin | 2 episodes | |
| 2005 | Broken News | Will Parker | 3 episodes | |
| 2004 | Hawking | Stephen Hawking | Television film | |
| 2004 | Dunkirk | Lt. Jimmy Langley | Docudrama | |
| 2003 | Spooks | Jim North | Episode #2.1 | |
| 2003 | Fortysomething | Rory Slippery | 6 episodes | |
| 2003 | Cambridge Spies | Edward Hand | Episode #1.2 | |
| 2002 | Tipping the Velvet | Freddy | Episode #1.1 | |
| 2002 | Silent Witness | Warren Reid | 1 episode, two parts, season 6 (6.5 & 6.6) | |
| 1998 | Heartbeat | Party Guest, Charles, Toby Fisher | 3 episodes |