Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch is an English actor, film producer, and voice artist. He is best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes in the BBC series Sherlock.
Benedict Cumberbatch was born on 19 July 1976 in London, England. His father, Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch, is a former journalist and his mother, Wanda Ventham, is an actress who has had roles in various British soap operas.
He attended Brambletye School before studying Drama at The University of Manchester. This led to him receiving training at The London Academy of Theatre at Acting (LAMDA) from 1996 to 2000.
One of Benedict's earliest notable theatre performances was his role as Titania in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer
Benedict Cumberbatch Biography
Son of actor Timothy Carlton and actress Wanda Ventham, Benedict started his career when he starred as Merlin in the West End production of Disney's Merlin in 1999.
Also, in 2003, he played Dan in The Naked City. He made his American film debut in the 2003 comedy, Wedding Crashers and has had parts in The Shadow of the Falcon, The Fifth Estate, The Fifth Estate, and Little White Lies. He also voiced the character Thomas the Tank Engine in the 2005 film Thomas & Friends: The Movie.
In 2005, he appeared in a stage production of Waiting for Godot and the same year he appeared in the West End production of You Never Can Tell. He next starred as Stuart Christie in the film Clouds of Sils Maria in 2014. He also provided the voice of Chiron in the 2010 Disney film The Miraculous Year.
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Benedict Cumberbatch Movies
Benedict made his film debut in 2001's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with Gary Oldman and Keira Knightley. This was followed by appearances in 2005's The National Health and 2006's Get Happy. In 2007, he starred in the horror film Clockwork (alongside Benicio Del Toro), as well as the television film Temple of Doom.
Benedict then went on to star in the 2011 film The Imitation Game, alongside Keira Knightley and Alan Turing. He won the BAFTA Rising Star award in the process.
A few years later, he portrayed Stephen Hawking in 2014's The Theory of Everything, as well as appearing in Love Actually and Star Trek Into Darkness, for which he earned an Academy Award nomination.
Benedict most recently appeared in Star Trek Beyond.
Benedict Cumberbatch TV Shows
Benedict's first major television role was in The History Boys. This was a role he won after a dramatic run-off at the Adelaide Festival Theatre.
He would go on to play Timothy Geppetto in The Little Mermaid.
Throughout the years, Benedict has starred in various productions. He's played the lead role in Hamlet (2005), Eddie in The National Theatre of Scotland's production of Nick Payne's Nothing Like a Dame, Christopher in The Pianist of Willesden Lane, Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady, John Watson in Sherlock, The Child in Time, and Dr Stephen Strange in Doctor Strange. He was also in a couple of television films: Reversal of Fortune and Trembling Before G-d.
Facts about Benedict Cumberbatch
He is fluent in French.
He is a talented visual artist, a painter of various pieces. His art is sold through his "artroom" website
Cumberbatch is an avid supporter of LGBT equality and PETA.
As a special treat for MovieWeb readers, we've put together a compilation of some of our favourite Cumberbatch onscreen moments (all set to his beautiful British accent of course).
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Conclusion
Everybody has a different idea of what is right or wrong. Here is an excerpt from the movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin. This scene was one of many that portrayed his character as someone who is extremely moral, despite his ethics being very different from the characters he is portraying.
In this scene, he is trying to get into a bath to save a couple of unfortunate children from being beheaded, but he is pulled out by a random elderly lady named Maud (played by Sandra Ogundipe).
It is only because the elderly woman can sense the moral quality of the person and that the soul of the person was not dead, that she didn't pull him into a similar fate.
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