List of Benedict Cumberbatch performances

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.

Cumberbatch at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con

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]
2005	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 Pope	Short film	[44]
	The Book of Clarence	Benjamin		[45]
2025	The Thing with Feathers	Dad		[46]
	The Phoenician Scheme	Uncle Nubar		[47]
	The Roses †	Theo	Post-production
2026	Avengers: Doomsday †	Dr. Stephen Strange	Filming	[48]
TBA	Blood on Snow †	TBA	Post-production	[49]
	Wife & Dog †			[50]

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1998, 2000, 2004	Heartbeat	Party Guest, Charles, Toby Fisher	3 episodes	[51]
2002	Tipping the Velvet	Freddy	Episode #1.1	[9]
	Silent Witness	Warren Reid	1 episode, two parts, season 6 (6.5 & 6.6)	[52]
2003	Cambridge Spies	Edward Hand	Episode #1.2	[53]
	Spooks	Jim North	Episode #2.1	[54]
	Fortysomething	Rory Slippery	6 episodes	[2]
2004	Dunkirk	Lt. Jimmy Langley	Documentary	[2]
	Hawking	Stephen Hawking	Television film	[55]
2005	Nathan Barley	Robin	2 episodes	[52]
	To the Ends of the Earth	Edmund Talbot	3 episodes	[56]
	Broken News	Will Parker		[57]
2007	Stuart: A Life Backwards	Alexander Masters	Television film	[58]
2008	The Last Enemy	Stephen Ezard	5 episodes	[59]
2009	Small Island	Bernard	Television film	[60]
	Marple: Murder Is Easy	Luke Fitzwilliam		[1]
2010	Van Gogh: Painted with Words	Vincent van Gogh		[61]
	The Rattigan Enigma	Presenter	Documentary	[62]
2010–2017	Sherlock	Sherlock Holmes	13 episodes	[63]
2012	Parade's End	Christopher Tietjens	5 episodes	[64]
2013, 2021	The Simpsons	British Prime Minister / Severus Snape; Quilloughby, Imaginary Quilloughby (voices)	2 episodes	[65][66]
2014	The Colbert Report	Smaug (voice)	Episode #1,443	[67]
2016	The Hollow Crown	Richard III	2 episodes	[68]
	Saturday Night Live	Himself (host)	Episode: "Benedict Cumberbatch / Solange"	[69]
2017	The Child in Time	Stephen Lewis	Television film	[70]
2018	Patrick Melrose	Patrick Melrose	5 episodes; also executive producer	[71]
2019	Brexit: The Uncivil War	Dominic Cummings	Television film	[72]
	Good Omens	Satan (voice)	3 episodes	[73]
2021, 2023	What If...?	Dr. Stephen Strange, Doctor Strange Supreme (voice)	6 episodes	[74][75]
2022	Saturday Night Live	Himself (host)	Episode: "Benedict Cumberbatch / Arcade Fire"
	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	[76]
	Mog’s Christmas	Mr. Thomas (voice)	Animated Christmas special	[77]
2024	Eric	Vincent Anderson / Eric (voice)	lead role; miniseries; also executive producer	[78]

Theatre

During rehearsals for Frankenstein, April 2011

Year	Title	Role	Location	Ref.
1998	Rat in the Skull	Roche	Edinburgh Festival Fringe	[79]
1999	The Zoo Story	Jerry		[80]
1999, 2002	The Kvetch	George	Teatro Della Contraddizione	[81]
2000	Woyzeck	Unknown	Didsbury Studio
2001	The Visit	Anton Schill	Edinburgh Festival Fringe Drayton Court Theatre Tearto Della Contraddizione
	Love's Labour's Lost	Ferdinand	Open Air Theatre	[2]
	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Demetrius
2002	As You Like It	Orlando
	Romeo and Juliet	Benvolio
	Oh, What a Lovely War!	Unknown
2004	Dead Hand		The Old Vic
	The Lady from the Sea	Lyngstrand	Almeida Theatre
2005	Hedda Gabler	George Tesman	Almeida Theatre Duke of York's Theatre	[9]
2006	Period of Adjustment	George	Almeida Theatre	[82]
2007	Rhinoceros	Bérenger	Royal Court Theatre	[83]
	The Arsonists	Eisenring
2008	The City	Chris		[84]
2010	After the Dance	David Scott-Fowler	Royal National Theatre	[85]
	The Children's Monologues	Reader	The Old Vic	[86]
2011	Frankenstein	The Creature / Victor Frankenstein	Royal National Theatre	[9]
2013	50 Years on Stage	Himself / Rosencrantz		[87]
2013–2015, 2018–2019	Letters Live	Reader	The Tabernacle Hay Festival Freemasons' Hall The Town Hall Union Chapel	[88] [89] [90] [91] [92]
2015	Hamlet	Prince Hamlet	Barbican Theatre	[93]

Radio

At the London premiere of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in September 2011

Year	Title	Role	Ref.
2004	Mansfield Park	Edmund Bertram	[2]
	Kepler	Johannes Kepler	[94]
	The Raj Quartet	Nigel Rowan
	The Recruiting Officer	Worthy
	The Odyssey	Telemachus	[2]
	The Biggest Secret	Captain Rob Collins	[95]
	The Far Side of the World	Narrator	[2]
	The Surgeon's Mate		[94]
	Mr. Norris Changes Trains
2005	Le Pere Goriot		[96]
	Seven Women	Tovey	[97]
	Medical Humanities: Baptism by Rotation	Narrator	[98]
	Fieldstudy: The Field
	The Cocktail Party	Peter Quilpe	[2]
2006	The Possessed	Nikolai Stavrogin	[99]
2008	The Pillow Book	Tadanobu	[100]
	Blake's 7: The Early Years	Townsend	[101]
	Last Days of Grace	GF	[102]
	At War with Wellington	Duke of Wellington	[103]
	Chatterton: The Allington Solution	Thomas Chatterton	[56]
	Spellbound	Dr. Murchison	[98]
	Rainy Season	Narrator	[98]
	The Tiger's Tale	Narrator
	Words and Music: Italian Fantasy	Narrator	[104]
	Doctor Who: Forty-Five	Howard Carter / Thing 2	[105]
2008–2014	Cabin Pressure	Captain Martin Crieff	[106]
2008	Metamorphosis	Narrator	[107]
2009	Good Evening	Dudley Moore	[98]
	Little Red Hen	Narrator	[108]
	Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders	Young Rumpole	[109]
2010	Rumpole and the Family Pride		[110]
	Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle		[111]
	Words for You: The Next Chapter	Narrator	[112]
2011	Tom and Viv	T. S. Eliot	[107]
2012	Rumpole and the Man of God	Young Rumpole	[113]
	Rumpole and the Explosive Evidence	Young Rumpole	[114]
	Rumpole and the Gentle Art of Blackmail	Young Rumpole	[115]
	Rumpole and the Expert Witness	Young Rumpole	[116]
2013	Copenhagen	Werner Heisenberg	[117]
	Neverwhere	Angel Islington	[118][119]
2014	Rumpole and the Old Boy Net	Rumpole	[120]
	Rumpole and the Sleeping Partners	Rumpole	[121]
2015	My Dear Bessie	Chris	[122]

Narration

At the 2014 London Evening Standard Theatre Awards

Year	Title	Notes	Ref.
2006	Casanova	Track: "Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova"	[123]
2009	South Pacific	Documentary; 6 episodes	[124]
2010	Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking	Documentary; 3 episodes	[125]
2011	Curiosity	Documentary; episode "Did God Create the Universe?"	[126]
2012	Stephen Hawking's Grand Design	Documentary; 3 episodes	[127]
2012	Our War	Documentary narrating Lt. Mark Evison diary ; 1 episodes
2012	Late Night Tales: Friendly Fires	Track: "Flat of Angles (Part 1)"	[128]
2013	Late Night Tales: Röyksopp	Track: "Flat of Angles (Part 2)"	[129]
2013	Late Night Tales: Bonobo	Track: "Flat of Angles (Part 3)"	[130]
2013	Jerusalem	Documentary	[131]
2013	Usher House	Opera by Gordon Getty	[132]
2014	Late Night Tales: Django Django	Track: "Flat of Angles (Part 4)"	[133]
2014	Globalised Slavery	Documentary by The Guardian	[134]
2014	Cristiano Ronaldo: The World at His Feet	Documentary	[135]
2017	Walk with Me – A Journal into Mindfulness featuring Thich Nhat Hanh	Documentary	[136]
2021	Sleep Sound	Animated short	[137][138]
2022	Super/Natural	Documentary: 6 episodes	[139][140]

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role	Ref.
2011	The Nightjar	Narrator	[141]
2014	Sherlock: The Network	Sherlock Holmes	[142]
2014	Lego The Hobbit	Smaug / The Necromancer	[23]
2015	Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff	Himself	[143]

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Benedict Cumberbatch