Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch 

CBE (born 19 July 1976) is an English actor. Known for

his roles on the screen and stage, he has received various accolades throughout his career,
including a British Academy Television Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Laurence Olivier
Award. Cumberbatch won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor 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 the five-part
drama miniseries Patrick Melrose, he won a British Academy Television 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). He will be reprising the role of Dr. Stephen
Strange in the upcoming Marvel Studios movie, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).