Actor
Benedict Cumberbatch
- Born: 19 July 1976, London, England, UK
- Estimated net worth: $40 million
Benedict Cumberbatch is a versatile British actor known for his roles in both film and television. He gained widespread recognition for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the BBC series 'Sherlock' and has starred in major films such as 'Doctor Strange' and…
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About Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch is a versatile British actor known for his roles in both film and television. He gained widespread recognition for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the BBC series 'Sherlock' and has starred in major films such as 'Doctor Strange' and 'The Imitation Game.' Cumberbatch is noted for his distinctive voice and intense acting style.
- Born
- 19 July 1976, London, England, UK
- Height
- 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
- Spouses
- Sophie Hunter (2015-present)
- Children
- 3; Christopher Carlton, Hal Auden, Finn Cumberbatch
- Parents
- Timothy Carlton, Wanda Ventham
- Estimated net worth
- $40 million
Fun facts about Benedict Cumberbatch
- Cumberbatch has a unique talent for accents and can perform a variety of them convincingly.
- He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in 'The Imitation Game' (2014).
Famous Benedict Cumberbatch quotes
“I am Sherlock Holmes and I always will be.”
“We are all stories in the end. Just make it a good one.”
“Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else.”
Benedict Cumberbatch filmography
Cast (169)
| Year | Title | Character | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | Wife & Dog Movie | Unknown character | |
| 2026 | How to Live on Earth Movie | Self | |
| 2026 | Confessions II - The Film Movie | Self | 9.0 |
| 2026 | David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth Movie | Self | 7.0 |
| 2025 | The Thing with Feathers Movie | Dad | 6.5 |
| 2025 | Together for Palestine Movie | Self | 8.2 |
| 2025 | The Roses Movie | Theo Rose | 6.6 |
| 2025 | Tilda Swinton: The Wildcards Movie | Self | |
| 2025 | The Phoenician Scheme Movie | Uncle Nubar | 6.5 |
| 2025 | Good Hang with Amy Poehler TV | Self - Guest | 5.5 |
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| Year | Title | Character | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Placebo: This Search for Meaning Movie | Self | |
| 2024 | Eric TV | Vincent | 6.9 |
| 2024 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More Movie | Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage) | 7.4 |
| 2024 | The Book of Clarence Movie | Benjamin | 5.8 |
| 2023 | Mog's Christmas Movie | Mr. Thomas (voice) | 7.3 |
| 2023 | The End We Start From Movie | AB | 5.8 |
| 2023 | James Blunt: One Brit Wonder Movie | Self (archive footage) | 7.0 |
| 2023 | Arctic: Our Frozen Planet Movie | Narrator | 7.0 |
| 2023 | Poison Movie | Harry Pope | 6.8 |
| 2023 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar Movie | Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist | 7.3 |
| 2022 | Minions & More Volume 1 Movie | The Grinch (voice) | 7.0 |
| 2022 | Super/Natural TV | Self - Narrator (voice) | 7.4 |
| 2022 | The Tiger Who Came to Tea Movie | Daddy (voice) | 6.3 |
| 2022 | Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge TV | Self | 6.5 |
| 2022 | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Movie | Self - Doctor Stephen Strange | 7.1 |
| 2022 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Movie | Doctor Stephen Strange | 7.2 |
| 2022 | Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home Movie | Self (archive footage) | 6.8 |
| 2022 | Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion Movie | Self (archive footage) | 6.1 |
| 2022 | Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog Movie | Unknown character | |
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home Movie | Doctor Strange | 7.9 |
| 2021 | Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special Movie | Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage) | 6.9 |
| 2021 | The Power of the Dog Movie | Phil Burbank | 6.7 |
| 2021 | The Electrical Life of Louis Wain Movie | Louis Wain | 6.9 |
| 2021 | What If...? TV | Strange Supreme / Demon Strange (voice) | 8.0 |
| 2021 | What If...? TV | Doctor Strange / Strange Supreme (voice) | 8.0 |
| 2021 | What If...? TV | Doctor Strange / Strange-Supreme (voice) | 8.0 |
| 2021 | What If...? TV | Doctor Strange (voice) | 8.0 |
| 2021 | Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel Movie | Self | 7.0 |
| 2021 | Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall Movie | Unknown character | 7.5 |
| 2021 | The Mauritanian Movie | Lt. Stuart Couch | 7.4 |
| 2021 | Marvel Studios Legends TV | Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (archive footage) (uncredited) | 7.4 |
| 2020 | Antarctica Movie | Self - Narrator | 6.3 |
| 2020 | Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King Movie | Self | 8.1 |
| 2020 | The Courier Movie | Greville Wynne | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 1917 Movie | Colonel MacKenzie | 8.0 |
| 2019 | Between Two Ferns: The Movie Movie | Benedict Cumberbatch | 5.9 |
| 2019 | The Kelly Clarkson Show TV | Self | 6.2 |
| 2019 | Good Omens TV | Satan (voice) | 8.0 |
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame Movie | Doctor Strange | 8.2 |
| 2019 | The Dog Days of Winter Movie | The Grinch (voice) | 5.9 |
| 2019 | Cindy-Lou's Yule Log Movie | The Grinch | 10.0 |
| 2019 | Brexit: The Uncivil War Movie | Dominic Cummings | 6.6 |
| 2018 | Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle Movie | Shere Khan (voice) | 6.5 |
| 2018 | The Grinch Movie | The Grinch (voice) | 6.9 |
| 2018 | The Child in Time Movie | Stephen Lewis | 5.8 |
| 2018 | Patrick Melrose TV | Patrick Melrose | 7.5 |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War Movie | Doctor Strange | 8.2 |
| 2018 | The Current War Movie | Thomas Edison | 6.7 |
| 2017 | Thor: Ragnarok Movie | Doctor Strange | 7.6 |
| 2017 | Walk with Me Movie | Narrator (voice) | 5.8 |
| 2016 | Naples '44 Movie | Norman Lewis (voice) | 5.7 |
| 2016 | Doctor Strange Movie | Dr. Stephen Strange | 7.4 |
| 2016 | Shakespeare Live! From the RSC Movie | Self - Performer | 7.4 |
| 2016 | Zoolander 2 Movie | All | 4.9 |
| 2016 | Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock Movie | Himself | 7.3 |
| 2016 | Sherlock: The Abominable Bride Movie | Sherlock Holmes | 7.8 |
| 2015 | National Theatre Live: Hamlet Movie | Hamlet | 7.5 |
| 2015 | Black Mass Movie | Billy Bulger | 6.5 |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert TV | Self - Guest | 6.1 |
| 2014 | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors TV | Self | 4.2 |
| 2014 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Movie | Smaug / Sauron (voice) | 7.3 |
| 2014 | Penguins of Madagascar Movie | Classified (voice) | 6.5 |
| 2014 | The Imitation Game Movie | Alan Turing | 8.0 |
| 2014 | Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D Movie | Narrator (Voice) | 6.5 |
| 2014 | The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover Movie | Agent Classified (voice) | 6.3 |
| 2014 | Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet Movie | Narrator | 7.6 |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers TV | Self - Guest | 5.1 |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon TV | Self - Guest | 5.8 |
| 2014 | 9 Kisses Movie | Man at Costume Party | 5.5 |
| 2014 | Unlocking Sherlock Movie | Himself / Sherlock Holmes | 7.9 |
| 2014 | How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective Movie | Self | |
| 2013 | August: Osage County Movie | Little Charles Aiken | 6.9 |
| 2013 | Sherlock: Many Happy Returns Movie | Sherlock Holmes | 7.7 |
| 2013 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Movie | Smaug / Sauron | 7.6 |
| 2013 | Jerusalem Movie | Narrator (voice) | 6.6 |
| 2013 | Little Favour Movie | Wallace | 6.5 |
| 2013 | National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage Movie | Rosencrantz | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave Movie | William Ford | 7.9 |
| 2013 | The Fifth Estate Movie | Julian Assange | 6.0 |
| 2013 | Star Trek Into Darkness Movie | John Harrison / Khan | 7.3 |
| 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Movie | Necromancer | 7.4 |
| 2012 | Girlfriend in a Coma Movie | Dante (voice) | 6.9 |
| 2012 | WWI's Tunnels of Death: The Big Dig TV | Narrator (Voice) | 8.0 |
| 2012 | Frankenstein: A Modern Myth Movie | Self / Frankenstein / The Monster | 7.0 |
| 2012 | Stephen Hawking's Grand Design TV | Narrator (voice) | 7.5 |
| 2012 | Parade's End TV | Christopher Tietjens | 6.5 |
| 2012 | Why did you come to Japan? TV | Self | |
| 2012 | The Hollow Crown TV | Richard | 7.4 |
| 2012 | The Hollow Crown TV | Richard III | 7.4 |
| 2012 | Sherlock: Uncovered Movie | Sherlock, Self | 10.0 |
| 2012 | The Dreams of William Golding Movie | Reader | |
| 2011 | War Horse Movie | Maj. Jamie Stewart | 7.3 |
| 2011 | Wreckers Movie | David | 5.2 |
| 2011 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Movie | Peter Guillam | 6.6 |
| 2011 | The Jonathan Ross Show TV | Self | 5.2 |
| 2011 | The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch Movie | Unknown character | |
| 2011 | National Theatre Live: Frankenstein Movie | The Creature / Victor Frankenstein | 7.7 |
| 2010 | Conan TV | Self - Guest | 7.2 |
| 2010 | The Whistleblower Movie | Nick Kaufman | 6.7 |
| 2010 | Unlocking Sherlock Movie | Himself | 6.5 |
| 2010 | Sherlock TV | Sherlock Holmes | 8.5 |
| 2010 | Third Star Movie | James | 7.0 |
| 2010 | Four Lions Movie | Negotiator | 7.0 |
| 2010 | Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking TV | Stephen Hawking | 7.8 |
| 2010 | Van Gogh: Painted with Words Movie | Vincent Van Gogh | 7.3 |
| 2010 | Burlesque Fairytales Movie | Henry Clark | 5.6 |
| 2009 | Small Island TV | Bernard | 6.1 |
| 2009 | Creation Movie | Joseph Dalton Hooker | 6.4 |
| 2009 | The Turning Point Movie | Guy Burgess | |
| 2009 | South Pacific TV | Self - Narrator (voice) | 7.8 |
| 2008 | The Other Boleyn Girl Movie | William Carey | 6.7 |
| 2008 | The Last Enemy TV | Stephen Ezard | 6.7 |
| 2007 | Stuart: A Life Backwards Movie | Alexander Masters | 7.4 |
| 2007 | Inseparable Movie | Joe / Charlie | 7.1 |
| 2007 | Atonement Movie | Paul Marshall | 7.6 |
| 2007 | Amazing Grace Movie | William Pitt | 6.9 |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show TV | Self | 7.2 |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show TV | Self - Guest | 7.2 |
| 2006 | Starter for 10 Movie | Patrick Watts | 6.4 |
| 2006 | The One Show TV | Self - Guest | 4.3 |
| 2005 | Broken News TV | Will Parker | 7.7 |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report TV | Smaug (voice) | 7.0 |
| 2005 | The Man Who Predicted 9/11 Movie | Narrator (voice) | 7.0 |
| 2005 | To the Ends of the Earth TV | Edmund Talbot | 6.1 |
| 2005 | Nathan Barley TV | Robin | 7.3 |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple TV | Luke Fitzwilliam | 7.8 |
| 2004 | Hawking Movie | Stephen Hawking | 7.1 |
| 2004 | Dunkirk TV | Lt Jimmy Langley | 6.4 |
| 2003 | Fortysomething TV | Rory Slippery | 7.5 |
| 2003 | To Kill a King Movie | Royalist | 5.8 |
| 2003 | Cambridge Spies TV | Edward Hand | 6.4 |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! TV | Self - Guest | 5.3 |
| 2002 | Tipping the Velvet TV | Freddy | 6.9 |
| 2002 | Top Gear TV | Self | 7.6 |
| 2002 | Timeshift TV | self | 7.0 |
| 2002 | Fields of Gold Movie | Jeremy | |
| 2002 | Hills Like White Elephants Movie | The Man | 8.0 |
| 2002 | Spooks TV | Jim North | 7.7 |
| 1997 | The View TV | Self - Guest | 4.3 |
| 1997 | Leute heute TV | Self | 5.2 |
| 1997 | Glastonbury TV | Self | |
| 1996 | The Daily Show TV | Self - Guest | 6.4 |
| 1996 | Silent Witness TV | Warren Reid | 7.6 |
| 1993 | GMTV TV | Self | 5.8 |
| 1992 | Heartbeat TV | Toby Fisher | 7.1 |
| 1992 | Heartbeat TV | Charles | 7.1 |
| 1990 | Have I Got News for You TV | Self - Host | 7.1 |
| 1989 | The Simpsons TV | Severus Snape / Prime Minister (voice) | 8.0 |
| 1989 | The Simpsons TV | Quilloughby (voice) | 8.0 |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark TV | Self | 5.6 |
| 1978 | The South Bank Show TV | Unknown character | 5.6 |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live TV | Self - Cameo (uncredited) | 6.9 |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live TV | Self - Host | 6.9 |
| 1953 | The Oscars TV | Self | 7.1 |
| TBA | Have I Got a Bit More News for You TV | Self - Presenter | 7.1 |
| TBA | Morning Movie | Frank | |
| TBA | Blood on Snow Movie | The Fisherman | |
| TBA | Last Flight Movie | Kirk Wallace Johnson | |
| TBA | Untitled Doctor Strange Movie Movie | Doctor Stephen Strange |
Crew (14)
| Year | Title | Role | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Roses Movie | Executive Producer · Production | 6.6 |
| 2024 | We Live in Time Movie | Executive Producer · Production | 7.2 |
| 2024 | Eric TV | Executive Producer · Production | 6.9 |
| 2023 | The End We Start From Movie | Executive Producer · Production | 5.8 |
| 2021 | The Electrical Life of Louis Wain Movie | Executive Producer · Production | 6.9 |
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| Year | Title | Role | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | The Mauritanian Movie | Producer · Production | 7.4 |
| 2020 | The Courier Movie | Executive Producer · Production | 7.0 |
| 2018 | The Child in Time Movie | Executive Producer · Production | 5.8 |
| 2018 | Patrick Melrose TV | Executive Producer · Production | 7.5 |
| 2013 | Little Favour Movie | Producer · Production | 6.5 |
| TBA | Morning Movie | Executive Producer · Production | |
| TBA | Migrations Movie | Producer · Production | |
| TBA | Last Flight Movie | Executive Producer · Production | |
| TBA | Rogue Male Movie | Producer · Production |
Latest releases
- How to Live on Earth2026
- Confessions II - The Film2026 / TMDB 9.0
- David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth2026 / TMDB 7.0
- The Thing with Feathers2025 / TMDB 6.5
- The Roses2025 / TMDB 6.6
- Tilda Swinton: The Wildcards2025
Questions about Benedict Cumberbatch
What are some of Benedict Cumberbatch's most famous roles?
Benedict Cumberbatch is best known for his roles as Sherlock Holmes in 'Sherlock,' Doctor Strange in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Alan Turing in 'The Imitation Game.'
Has Benedict Cumberbatch won any major awards?
Yes, Cumberbatch has received numerous awards, including a BAFTA Award and an Emmy Award for his performance in 'Sherlock.' He was also nominated for an Academy Award for 'The Imitation Game.'
What was Benedict Cumberbatch's first film?
Cumberbatch's film debut was in 'To Kill a King' (2003), where he played the role of Prince Rupert of the Rhine.
What are some of his highest-grossing films?
Some of his highest-grossing films include 'Doctor Strange,' 'Avengers: Infinity War,' and 'Avengers: Endgame,' all of which have performed exceptionally well at the box office.
What is Benedict Cumberbatch's estimated net worth?
Benedict Cumberbatch's estimated net worth is reported to be around $40 million, reflecting his successful career in film and television.
What is a notable aspect of Cumberbatch's acting style?
Cumberbatch is known for his intense and immersive acting style, often bringing depth and complexity to his characters, which has garnered him critical acclaim.
What is his educational background?
Benedict Cumberbatch attended the Dragon School and later graduated from the University of Manchester with a degree in Drama. He also trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Has Cumberbatch worked in theater?
Yes, Cumberbatch has a strong theater background, having performed in various stage productions, including the acclaimed play 'Frankenstein' at the National Theatre.