Benedict Cumberbatch

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1976 age 0

   Born

2. 2006 age 30

   CreditAmazing Grace

3. 2007 age 31

   CreditAtonement

4. 2008 age 32

   CreditThe Other Boleyn Girl

5. 2011 age 35

   CreditTinker Tailor Soldier Spy

   CreditWar Horse

6. 2012 age 36

   CreditThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

7. 2013 age 37

   Credit12 Years a Slave

   CreditAugust: Osage County

   CreditStar Trek Into Darkness

   CreditThe Fifth Estate

   CreditThe Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

8. 2014 age 38

   CreditThe Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

   CreditThe Imitation Game

9. 2015 age 39

   CreditBlack Mass

10. 2016 age 40

    CreditDoctor Strange

    CreditZoolander 2

11. 2017 age 41

    CreditThor: Ragnarok

12. 2018 age 42

    CreditAvengers: Infinity War

    CreditMowgli: Legend of the Jungle

13. 2019 age 43

    Credit1917

    CreditAvengers: Endgame

14. 2021 age 45

    CreditSpider-Man: No Way Home

    CreditThe Power of the Dog

15. 2022 age 46

    CreditDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

• KFKevin Feige6 titles
• CBCate Blanchett5 titles
• CHChris Hemsworth5 titles
• BWBenedict Wong5 titles
• SLStan Lee4 titles
• THTom Hiddleston4 titles
• ELEvangeline Lilly4 titles
• TNTerry Notary4 titles
• VAVictoria Alonso4 titles
• MFMartin Freeman4 titles

• Spouse

  • SHSophie Irene Hunter

• Parents

  • TCTimothy Carlton

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• I don’t know if watching your own work is a good or bad thing. I don’t know how much I learn from it. Each individual circumstance holds its own world of singularities and peculiarities. But among that, you can go: “Oh yeah, I remember that was what I tried to do.” Sometimes it doesn’t fit with the cast or the energy of the scene or the beat of another character. But to sit down in the audience and go: “Oh my God, I think that was what I intended”, was great.

  Benedict Cumberbatch, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I was very, very into techno for a long time. That was my bag at uni. I went clubbing a lot and all sorts of nonsense ensued. Havok on a Friday was my favourite night because I just loved dancing.

  Benedict Cumberbatch, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It's time to start playing the smallest violin in the world for me right now. I was very lucky because I had other people's pets. I was like an uncle or godparent. You get all the benefits without any of the trauma. We had animals at school that we tended to, I don't know how they survived. I didn't go through the trauma of seeing them as babies and then going through their life cycle with them and the inevitable end. I love, love, love, love, love dogs. Cats, on the other hand... Don't ever do a film with them. They just wander around looking really unimpressed with everything. I love them, but working with them is really tough.

  Benedict Cumberbatch, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You know, I’m not a fan of horror. I’m a fan of some of those films, but I’m not a fan in the sense I find it very difficult to watch them. I’m very suggestible and gullible and I buy into what I’m watching and it just haunts me for too long afterwards. It just scares me for longer than the moment in the film. I don’t really like living a life in horror or terrors, other than that in the real world without my imagination creating more. Horror is not my genre go-to. It’s not my genre go to.

  Benedict Cumberbatch, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I would say in compound sense of what little I know is it’s definitely darker in tone, and in terms of advice for taking kids of a certain age, it’s going to be prohibitive for certain people of a certain age because it is scary.

  Benedict Cumberbatch, CC BY-SA 4.0

• If I’m playing someone who’s smart, suddenly every character I’ve played is smart. If I’m playing a bad guy, every character is a bad guy. I suppose it’s that thing where people want to see a through-line to understand you. I mean, you know, I have played pretty ordinary people too.

  Benedict Cumberbatch, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United Kingdom

Height

183 cm

Hair colour

chestnut hair

Languages

English

Years active

2001–

Education

Brambletye School, Harrow School, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, University of Manchester, Victoria University of Manchester