Benedict Cumberbatch

Career timeline

1. 1976 · Born

   Born in Hammersmith, London, England, UK

2. 1978 · Screen debut

   The South Bank Show (TV)

3. 1989 · Breakthrough

   The Simpsons (TV)

4. 2021 · First production

   The Mauritanian (Movie)

5. 2025 · Latest release

   The Thing with Feathers (Movie)

Career in numbers

1 1970s

1 1980s

2 1990s

13 2000s

31 2010s

19 2020s

• Drama45
• Comedy21
• Adventure17
• History12
• Action11
• Thriller10

Highest-rated title Sherlock 2010 8.5 Most popular title The Simpsons 1989 8.0

Frequent collaborators

People who appear most often alongside Benedict Cumberbatch in our catalogue.

Lara Pulver

2 titles together

Tom Hardy

2 titles together

Paul Bettany

2 titles together

1. 2025 The Thing with Feathers as Dad 6.5 Movie
2. 2025 The Roses as Theo Rose 6.6 Movie
3. 2025 The Phoenician Scheme as Uncle Nubar 6.5 Movie
4. 2024 Eric as Vincent 6.9 TV
5. 2024 The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More as Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage) 7.5 Movie
6. 2024 The Book of Clarence as Benjamin 5.8 Movie
7. 2023 The End We Start From as AB 5.8 Movie
8. 2023 Poison as Harry Pope 6.8 Movie
9. 2023 The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar as Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist 7.3 Movie
10. 2022 Minions & More Volume 1 as The Grinch (voice) 7.0 Movie
11. 2022 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as Doctor Stephen Strange 7.2 Movie
12. 2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home as Doctor Strange 8.0 Movie
13. 2021 The Power of the Dog as Phil Burbank 6.7 Movie
14. 2021 The Electrical Life of Louis Wain as Louis Wain 6.9 Movie
15. 2021 What If...? as Doctor Strange (voice) 8.0 TV
16. 2021 The Mauritanian as Lt. Stuart Couch 7.4 Movie
17. 2021 Marvel Studios Legends as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (archive footage) (uncredited) 7.4 TV
18. 2020 The Courier as Greville Wynne 7.0 Movie
19. 2019 1917 as Colonel MacKenzie 8.0 Movie
20. 2019 Between Two Ferns: The Movie as Benedict Cumberbatch 5.9 Movie
21. 2019 Good Omens as Satan (voice) 8.0 TV
22. 2019 Avengers: Endgame as Doctor Strange 8.3 Movie
23. 2019 Brexit: The Uncivil War as Dominic Cummings 6.6 Movie
24. 2018 Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle as Shere Khan (voice) 6.5 Movie
25. 2018 The Grinch as The Grinch (voice) 6.9 Movie
26. 2018 Patrick Melrose as Patrick Melrose 7.5 TV
27. 2018 Avengers: Infinity War as Doctor Strange 8.3 Movie
28. 2018 The Current War as Thomas Edison 6.7 Movie
29. 2017 Thor: Ragnarok as Doctor Strange 7.6 Movie
30. 2016 Doctor Strange as Dr. Stephen Strange 7.4 Movie
31. 2016 Zoolander 2 as All 4.9 Movie
32. 2016 Sherlock: The Abominable Bride as Sherlock Holmes 7.8 Movie
33. 2015 Black Mass as Billy Bulger 6.5 Movie
34. 2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies as Smaug / Sauron (voice) 7.3 Movie
35. 2014 Penguins of Madagascar as Classified (voice) 6.6 Movie
36. 2014 The Imitation Game as Alan Turing 8.0 Movie
37. 2013 August: Osage County as Little Charles Aiken 6.9 Movie
38. 2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as Smaug / Sauron 7.6 Movie
39. 2013 12 Years a Slave as William Ford 7.9 Movie
40. 2013 The Fifth Estate as Julian Assange 6.0 Movie
41. 2013 Star Trek Into Darkness as Khan 7.3 Movie
42. 2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey as Necromancer 7.4 Movie
43. 2012 Parade's End as Christopher Tietjens 6.5 TV
44. 2012 The Hollow Crown as Richard 7.4 TV
45. 2011 War Horse as Maj. Jamie Stewart 7.3 Movie
46. 2011 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as Peter Guillam 6.6 Movie
47. 2010 The Whistleblower as Nick Kaufman 6.7 Movie
48. 2010 Sherlock as Sherlock Holmes 8.5 TV
49. 2010 Four Lions as Negotiator 7.0 Movie
50. 2009 Creation as Joseph Dalton Hooker 6.4 Movie
51. 2008 The Other Boleyn Girl as William Carey 6.7 Movie
52. 2007 Stuart: A Life Backwards as Alexander Masters 7.4 Movie
53. 2007 Atonement as Paul Marshall 7.6 Movie
54. 2007 Amazing Grace as William Pitt 6.9 Movie
55. 2006 Starter for 10 as Patrick Watts 6.4 Movie
56. 2005 The Colbert Report as Smaug (voice) 7.0 TV
57. 2005 To the Ends of the Earth as Edmund Talbot 6.1 TV
58. 2005 Nathan Barley as Robin 7.3 TV
59. 2004 Agatha Christie's Marple as Luke Fitzwilliam 7.9 TV
60. 2004 Hawking as Stephen Hawking 7.1 Movie
61. 2002 Tipping the Velvet as Freddy 6.9 TV
62. 2002 Spooks as Jim North 7.7 TV
63. 1996 Silent Witness as Warren Reid 7.6 TV
64. 1992 Heartbeat as Toby Fisher 7.1 TV
65. 1989 The Simpsons as Severus Snape / Prime Minister (voice) 8.0 TV
66. 1978 The South Bank Show TV

1. 2025 The Roses 6.6 Movie
2. 2024 We Live in Time 7.2 Movie
3. 2024 Eric 6.9 TV
4. 2023 The End We Start From 5.8 Movie
5. 2021 The Electrical Life of Louis Wain 6.9 Movie
6. 2020 The Courier 7.0 Movie
7. 2018 Patrick Melrose 7.5 TV

1. 2021 The Mauritanian 7.4 Movie

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