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Background[]
Benedict Cumberbatch ( b. 19 July 1976 ) is an English actor and producer. He has appeared in classic stage theater, television, and cinematic roles; and voice acting performances.
Cumberbatch earned enormous acclaim for his performance in the biopics Hawking and The Imitation Game in which he portrayed noted physicist Stephen Hawking and mathematician Alan Turing respectively. He also earned worldwide recognition for his extended role as Sherlock Holmes in the 2010 Sherlock TV series and as the magic wielding Dr. Stephen Strange of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Biography[]
Personal Life[]
Filmography[]
- Heartbeat (1998-04) 3 episodes
- Fields of Gold (2002)
- Tipping the Velvet (2002) 1 episode
- Silent Witness (2002) 2 episodes
- Hills Like White Elephants (2002)
- To Kill a King (2003)
- Cambridge Spies (2003) 1 episode
- MI-5 (2003) 1 episode
- Fortysomething (2003) 6 episodes
- Dunkirk (2004)
- Hawking (2004)
- Nathan Barley (2005) 2 episodes
- To the Ends of the Earth (2005) 3 episodes
- Broken News (2005) 3 episodes
- Starter for 10 (2006)
- Amazing Grace (2006)
- Inseparable (2007)
- Atonement (2007)
- Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)
- The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
- The Last Enemy (2008) 5 episodes
- Agatha Christie's Marple (2008) 1 episode
- Burlesque Fairytales (2009)
- Creation (2009)
- Small Island (2009)
- Four Lions (2010)
- Van Gogh: Painted with Words (2010)
- Third Star (2010)
- The Whistleblower (2010)
- Sherlock (2010-17) 15 episodes
- Curiosity (2011) 1 episode
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
- War Horse (2011)
- Wreckers (2011)
- National Theatre Live (2011-13) 2 episodes
- Parade's End (2012) 5 episodes
- Girlfriend in a Coma (2012)
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
- Electric Cinema: How to Behave (2012)
- The Simpsons (2013) 1 episode
- Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
- 12 Years a Slave (2013)
- The Fifth Estate (2013)
- August: Osage County (2013)
- Little Favour (2013)
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
- The Imitation Game (2014)
- Penguins of Madagascar (2014)
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
- 9 Kisses (2014)
- Black Mass (2015)
- Hamlet (2015)
- Zoolander 2 (2016)
- The Hollow Crown (2016) 2 episodes
- Doctor Strange (2016)
- The Current War (2017)
- The Child in Time (2017)
- Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
- Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
- 1917 (2019)
- The Courier (2020)
- Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Trivia[]
- Has central heterochromia; an otherwise harmless genetic mutation where both of his eyes have multiple colors―in particular, each eye has a slightly different combination of blue, green, and gold. His right eye is also known to have sectoral heterochromia―where an eye has a sector of different coloration. In his case, he has a small brown spot in his eye.
Quotes[]
- "Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame."
- "If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad."
- "Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself."
- "My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The new one said, 'Why aren't you using your family name? It's a real attention-grabber.' I worried, 'How much is it going to cost to put my name in lights?' But then I decided that's not my problem."
- "I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor."