List of Benedict Cumberbatch performances

Cumberbatch at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con

Actor Benedict Cumberbatch has performed in many films, television series, theatre productions, and recorded lines for various radio programs, narrations and video games. He first performed for the New Shakespeare Company at Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park for two seasons. He later portrayed George Tesman in Richard Eyre's revival of Hedda Gabler (2005) and since then has starred in the Royal National Theatre productions After the Dance (2010) and Frankenstein (2011). In 2015, he played William Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre.

His screen work includes television appearances in Heartbeat (2000), Silent Witness (2002) and Fortysomething (2003) before starring as Stephen Hawking in the television film Hawking (2004). He has played Sherlock Holmes in the crime drama series Sherlock since 2010. He has also starred in Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Parade's End (2012). He appeared in To Kill a King (2003) and he went on to appear in the films Atonement (2007) and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). He has starred in the films Star Trek Into Darkness as Khan Noonien Singh (2013), 12 Years a Slave as William Prince Ford (2013), The Fifth Estate as Julian Assange (2013), and The Imitation Game as Alan Turing (2014). Through voice and motion capture, he played the characters of Smaug and The Necromancer in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film series (2012–2014). He plays Dr. Stephen Strange in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), beginning with the release of Doctor Strange (2016) and reprised the role in Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).

Benedict Cumberbatch has received various accolades throughout his career, including a British Academy Television Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award and a Laurence Olivier Award. He won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for playing the title role in the five-part drama miniseries Patrick Melrose. Cumberbatch won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for Sherlock and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for Frankenstein. His performances in the dramas The Imitation Game (2014) and The Power of the Dog (2021) earned him nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award, all for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Film

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2002 Hills Like White Elephants The Man Short film [1]
2003 To Kill a King Royalist [2]
Starter for 10 Patrick Watts [1]
2006 Amazing Grace Prime Minister William Pitt [3]
2007 Inseparable Joe / Charlie Short film [4]
Atonement Paul Marshall [1]
2008 The Other Boleyn Girl William Carey [1]
2009 Creation Joseph Dalton Hooker [3]
Burlesque Fairytales Henry Clark [5]
2010 Four Lions Negotiator [6]
Third Star James [7]
The Whistleblower Nick Kaufman [8]
2011 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Peter Guillam [9]
Wreckers David [10]
War Horse Major Jamie Stewart [11]
2012 Girlfriend in a Coma Dante Alighieri (voice) Documentary [12]
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Smaug / The Necromancer Motion capture and voices [13]
2013 Star Trek Into Darkness Khan Noonien Singh [14]
Little Favour Wallace Short film; also producer [15]
12 Years a Slave William Prince Ford [16]
The Fifth Estate Julian Assange [17]
August: Osage County "Little" Charles Aiken [18][19]
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Smaug / Sauron Motion capture and voices [20]
2014 The Imitation Game Alan Turing [21]
Penguins of Madagascar Classified Voice [22]
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Smaug / Sauron Motion capture and voices [23]
2015 Black Mass William M. Bulger [24]
2016 Zoolander 2 All Cameo [25]
Doctor Strange Dr. Stephen Strange
Dormammu (motion capture and voice) 		Uncredited as Dormammu [26]
[27]
2017 The Current War Thomas Edison Also executive producer [28]
Thor: Ragnarok Dr. Stephen Strange [29]
2018 Avengers: Infinity War [30]
The Grinch The Grinch Voice [31]
The Dog Days of Winter Voice; short film
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle Shere Khan Motion capture and voice [32]
2019 Avengers: Endgame Dr. Stephen Strange [33]
Between Two Ferns: The Movie Himself [34]
1917 Colonel Mackenzie [35]
2020 The Courier Greville Wynne Also executive producer [36]
2021 The Mauritanian Stuart Couch Also producer [37]
The Power of the Dog Phil Burbank [38]
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain Louis Wain Also executive producer [39]
Spider-Man: No Way Home Dr. Stephen Strange [40]
2022 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness [41]
2023 The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar Henry Sugar / Max Engelman Short film [42]
The End We Start From AB Also executive producer [43]
Poison Harry Short film [44]
The Book of Clarence Benjamin [45]
2025 The Roses † Filming
TBA The Phoenician Scheme † Post-production [46]
The Thing with Feathers † [47]
Key
† Denotes films that have not yet been released

Television

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1998, 2000,
2004 		Heartbeat Party Guest, Charles, Toby Fisher 3 episodes [48]
2002 Tipping the Velvet Freddy Episode #1.1 [9]
2002 Silent Witness Warren Reid 1 episode, two parts, season 6 (6.5 & 6.6) [49]
2003 Cambridge Spies Edward Hand Episode #1.2 [50]
2003 Spooks Jim North Episode #2.1 [51]
2003 Fortysomething Rory Slippery 6 episodes [2]
2004 Dunkirk Lt. Jimmy Langley Documentary [2]
2004 Hawking Stephen Hawking Television film [52]
2005 Nathan Barley Robin 2 episodes [49]
2005 To the Ends of the Earth Edmund Talbot 3 episodes [53]
2005 Broken News Will Parker 3 episodes [54]
2007 Stuart: A Life Backwards Alexander Masters Television film [55]
2008 The Last Enemy Stephen Ezard 5 episodes [56]
2009 Small Island Bernard Television film [57]
2009 Marple: Murder Is Easy Luke Fitzwilliam Television film [1]
2010 Van Gogh: Painted with Words Vincent van Gogh Television film [58]
2010 The Rattigan Enigma Presenter Documentary [59]
2010–2017 Sherlock Sherlock Holmes 13 episodes [60]
2012 Parade's End Christopher Tietjens 5 episodes [61]
2013, 2021 The Simpsons British Prime Minister / Severus Snape; Quilloughby, Imaginary Quilloughby (voices) 2 episodes [62][63]
2014 The Colbert Report Smaug (voice) Episode #1,443 [64]
2016 The Hollow Crown Richard III 2 episodes [65]
2016 Saturday Night Live Himself (host) Episode: "Benedict Cumberbatch / Solange" [66]
2017 The Child in Time Stephen Lewis Television film [67]
2018 Patrick Melrose Patrick Melrose 5 episodes; also executive producer [68]
2019 Brexit: The Uncivil War Dominic Cummings Television film [69]
2019 Good Omens Satan (voice) 3 episodes [70]
2021, 2023 What If...? Dr. Stephen Strange, Doctor Strange Supreme (voice) 6 episodes [71][72]
2022 Saturday Night Live Himself (host) Episode: "Benedict Cumberbatch / Arcade Fire"
2022 Marvel Studios: Assembled Himself Episode: "The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness "
2023 Running Wild With Bear Grylls: The Challenge Himself (guest) Series 2, episode 2 [73]
2023 Mog’s Christmas Mr. Thomas (voice) Animated Christmas special [74]
2024 Eric Vincent Anderson / Eric (voice) lead role; miniseries; also executive producer [75]

Theatre

Benedict Cumberbatch facing right with brown-reddish hair
During rehearsals for Frankenstein, April 2011
Year Title Role Location Ref.
1998 Rat in the Skull Roche Edinburgh Festival Fringe [76]
1999 The Zoo Story Jerry Edinburgh Festival Fringe [77]
1999, 2002 The Kvetch George Teatro Della Contraddizione [78]
2000 Woyzeck Unknown Didsbury Studio
2001 The Visit Anton Schill Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Drayton Court Theatre
Tearto Della Contraddizione
2001 Love's Labour's Lost Ferdinand Open Air Theatre [2]
2001 A Midsummer Night's Dream Demetrius Open Air Theatre [2]
2002 As You Like It Orlando Open Air Theatre [2]
2002 Romeo and Juliet Benvolio Open Air Theatre [2]
2002 Oh, What a Lovely War! Unknown Open Air Theatre [2]
2004 Dead Hand Unknown The Old Vic [2]
2004 The Lady from the Sea Lyngstrand Almeida Theatre [2]
2005 Hedda Gabler George Tesman Almeida Theatre
Duke of York's Theatre 		[9]
2006 Period of Adjustment George Almeida Theatre [79]
2007 Rhinoceros Bérenger Royal Court Theatre [80]
2007 The Arsonists Eisenring Royal Court Theatre [80]
2008 The City Chris Royal Court Theatre [81]
2010 After the Dance David Scott-Fowler Royal National Theatre [82]
2010 The Children's Monologues Reader The Old Vic [83]
2011 Frankenstein The Creature / Victor Frankenstein Royal National Theatre [9]
2013 50 Years on Stage Himself / Rosencrantz Royal National Theatre [84]
2013–2015,
2018–2019 		Letters Live Reader The Tabernacle
Hay Festival
Freemasons' Hall
The Town Hall
Union Chapel 		[85]
[86]
[87]
[88]
[89]
2015 Hamlet Prince Hamlet Barbican Theatre [90]

Radio

Benedict Cumberbatch facing left with blonde hair wearing a suit and tie
At the London premiere of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in September 2011
Year Title Role Ref.
2004 Mansfield Park Edmund Bertram [2]
2004 Kepler Johannes Kepler [91]
2004 The Raj Quartet Nigel Rowan
2004 The Recruiting Officer Worthy
2004 The Odyssey Telemachus [2]
2004 The Biggest Secret Captain Rob Collins [92]
2004 The Far Side of the World Narrator [2]
2004 The Surgeon's Mate Narrator [91]
2004 Mr. Norris Changes Trains Narrator [91]
2005 Le Pere Goriot Narrator [93]
2005 Seven Women Tovey [94]
2005 Medical Humanities: Baptism by Rotation Narrator [95]
2005 Fieldstudy: The Field Narrator [95]
2005 The Cocktail Party Peter Quilpe [2]
2006 The Possessed Nikolai Stavrogin [96]
2008 The Pillow Book Tadanobu [97]
2008 Blake's 7: The Early Years Townsend [98]
2008 Last Days of Grace GF [99]
2008 At War with Wellington Duke of Wellington [100]
2008 Chatterton: The Allington Solution Thomas Chatterton [53]
2008 Spellbound Dr. Murchison [95]
2008 Rainy Season Narrator [95]
2008 The Tiger's Tale Narrator
2008 Words and Music: Italian Fantasy Narrator [101]
2008 Doctor Who: Forty-Five Howard Carter / Thing 2 [102]
2008–2014 Cabin Pressure Captain Martin Crieff [103]
2008 Metamorphosis Narrator [104]
2009 Good Evening Dudley Moore [95]
2009 Little Red Hen Narrator [105]
2009 Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders Young Rumpole [106]
2010 Rumpole and the Family Pride Young Rumpole [107]
2010 Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle Young Rumpole [108]
2010 Words for You: The Next Chapter Narrator [109]
2011 Tom and Viv T. S. Eliot [104]
2012 Rumpole and the Man of God Young Rumpole [110]
2012 Rumpole and the Explosive Evidence Young Rumpole [111]
2012 Rumpole and the Gentle Art of Blackmail Young Rumpole [112]
2012 Rumpole and the Expert Witness Young Rumpole [113]
2013 Copenhagen Werner Heisenberg [114]
2013 Neverwhere Angel Islington [115][116]
2014 Rumpole and the Old Boy Net Rumpole [117]
2014 Rumpole and the Sleeping Partners Rumpole [118]
2015 My Dear Bessie Chris [119]

Narration

Closeup of Benedict Cumberbatch in a white shirt and black tie facing the camera with brown hair
At the 2014 London Evening Standard Theatre Awards
Year Title Notes Ref.
2006 Casanova Track: "Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova" [120]
2009 South Pacific Documentary; 6 episodes [121]
2010 Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking Documentary; 3 episodes [122]
2011 Curiosity Documentary; episode "Did God Create the Universe?" [123]
2012 Stephen Hawking's Grand Design Documentary; 3 episodes [124]
2012 Our War Documentary narrating Lt. Mark Evison diary ; 1 episodes
2012 Late Night Tales: Friendly Fires Track: "Flat of Angles (Part 1)" [125]
2013 Late Night Tales: Röyksopp Track: "Flat of Angles (Part 2)" [126]
2013 Late Night Tales: Bonobo Track: "Flat of Angles (Part 3)" [127]
2013 Jerusalem Documentary [128]
2013 Usher House Opera by Gordon Getty [129]
2014 Late Night Tales: Django Django Track: "Flat of Angles (Part 4)" [130]
2014 Globalised Slavery Documentary by The Guardian [131]
2014 Cristiano Ronaldo: The World at His Feet Documentary [132]
2017 Walk with Me – A Journal into Mindfulness featuring Thich Nhat Hanh Documentary [133]
2021 Sleep Sound Animated short [134][135]
2022 Super/Natural Documentary: 6 episodes [136][137]

Video games

Year Title Voice role Ref.
2011 The Nightjar Narrator [138]
2014 Sherlock: The Network Sherlock Holmes [139]
2014 Lego The Hobbit Smaug / The Necromancer [23]
2015 Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff Himself [140]

See also

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