Benedict Cumberbatch

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Benedict Cumberbatch
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Cumberbatch in 2011
Born Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch
(1976-07-19) 19 July 1976 (age 36)
London, England
Education BA in Drama
MA in Classical Acting for Professional Theatre[1]
Alma mater Brambletye School
Harrow School
University of Manchester
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Occupation Actor
Years active 2001–present
Parents Timothy Carlton
Wanda Ventham

Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 1976) is an English actor. His most acclaimed roles include Stephen Hawking in the BBC drama Hawking (2004); William Pitt in the historical film Amazing Grace (2006); protagonist Stephen Ezard in the miniseries thriller The Last Enemy (2008); Paul Marshall in Atonement (2007); Bernard in Small Island (2009); and Sherlock Holmes in the modern BBC adaptation series Sherlock (2010).

In February 2011, he began playing both Victor Frankenstein and his creature opposite Jonny Lee Miller in Danny Boyle's stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The play had a three-month run at the Royal National Theatre. In late 2011, he played Major Stewart in Steven Spielberg's War Horse (2011). He also played Peter Guillam, one of the pivotal roles in Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011).

He reprised the role of Sherlock Holmes in the second series of the BBC's Sherlock, which aired in the United Kingdom in January 2012 and was broadcast on PBS in the United States in May 2012. He also stars as Christopher Tietjens in the BBC/HBO co-production television miniseries Parade's End, which first aired August 2012. He portrayed Smaug the Dragon through voice and motion capture and also provided the motion capture for the Necromancer in Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" trilogy (2012).

He also portrayed the main antagonist, John Harrison, in J. J. Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness, released in May 2013, and will play WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate, scheduled for release in November 2013.

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Early life

Cumberbatch was born on 19 July 1976 in London, the son of actors Timothy Carlton (birth name Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch) and Wanda Ventham. His great-grandfather, Henry Arnold Cumberbatch, CMG, was the British Consul General in Turkey. His grandfather, Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, was a decorated submarine officer of both World Wars and a prominent figure of London high society.[2] Cumberbatch is also a distant cousin of astronaut Chris Hadfield, through shared British ancestry.[3]

Cumberbatch was educated at Brambletye School[4] in West Sussex and had an arts scholarship to Harrow School.[5][6] At Harrow, he was introduced to the works of playwright Sir Terrence Rattigan and began acting in school plays.[7] He was involved in numerous Shakespearean works and made his acting debut as Titania Queen of the Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream when he was 13.[8] Cumberbatch's school drama teacher called him "the best schoolboy actor I've ever worked with".[9] He was also part of the rugby team and painted oil canvases.[9][10] Despite blowing his GCSEs out of the water, he forfeited his chances to go to Oxford University and Cambridge University for he discovered "pot, girls and music" and "got lazy" during his last term at Harrow.[11] After school, he took a gap year to teach English in a Tibetan monastery.[12] He then attended the University of Manchester, where he studied drama.[13] After graduating, Cumberbatch continued his training as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.[1]

Career

Theatre

Since 2001, Cumberbatch has had major roles in a dozen classic plays at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, Almeida Theatre, Royal Court Theatre and the Royal National Theatre. He was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role for his performance as Tesman in Hedda Gabler, a role he performed at the Almeida Theatre on 16 March 2005, as well as at the Duke of York's Theatre when it transferred to the West End on 19 May 2005. Cumberbatch acted in The Children’s Monologues, a theatrical event at London's Old Vic Theatre on 14 November 2010. The show was produced by Dramatic Need.[14]

In February 2011, he began playing, on alternate nights, both Victor Frankenstein and his creature, opposite Jonny Lee Miller, in Danny Boyle's stage production of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at the National Theatre.[15] Frankenstein was broadcast to cinemas as a part of National Theatre Live in March 2011.[16] The Children's Monologues was directed by Danny Boyle as well. In April 2012, Cumberbatch won the Olivier Award for Best Actor (jointly with Jonny Lee Miller) for the acclaimed Frankenstein at the National Theatre, directed by Danny Boyle, with the two lead actors alternating the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature.

Television

Cumberbatch's television roles include two separate guest roles in Heartbeat (2000, 2004), Freddy in Tipping the Velvet (2002), Edward Hand in Cambridge Spies (2003) and Rory in the ITV comedy drama series Fortysomething (2003). He was also featured in Spooks and Silent Witness. In 2004, he starred as Stephen Hawking in Hawking. He was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor and won the Golden Nymph for Television Films – Best Performance by an Actor. (He later provided Hawking's voice in the first episode of the television series Curiosity.) He also appeared in the BBC miniseries Dunkirk as Lieutenant Jimmy Langley.

In 2005, Cumberbatch starred as the protagonist Edmund Talbot in the miniseries To the Ends of the Earth, based on William Golding's trilogy. He also made brief appearances in the comedy sketch show Broken News in 2005. Cumberbatch next starred alongside Tom Hardy in the television adaptation of the book Stuart: A Life Backwards, which aired on the BBC in September 2007. In 2008, he starred in the BBC miniseries drama The Last Enemy, for which he was nominated for a Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Film.

Cumberbatch filming Sherlock in Chinatown, London, 2011

In 2009, Cumberbatch starred in Marple: Murder Is Easy as Luke Fitzwilliam. He played Bernard in the TV adaptation of Small Island; the performance earned him a nomination for BAFTA Television Award for Best Supporting Actor.[17] He also starred in Michael Dobbs' play The Turning Point which aired as one of a series of TV plays broadcast live on Sky Arts channel. The two-hander depicted a little-known October 1938 meeting between Soviet spy Guy Burgess, then a young man working for the BBC, and Winston Churchill. Cumberbatch portrayed Burgess; Churchill was played by Matthew Marsh, who had played a supporting role in Hawking.[18] He narrated the 6-part series South Pacific (U.S. title: Wild Pacific), which aired May to June 2009 on BBC 2.

Cumberbatch, a fan of long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who, suggested in a July 2010 interview that he would be interested in appearing as a main or recurring character on the show, run by Sherlock producer Steven Moffat.[19]

In 2010, Cumberbatch portrayed Vincent van Gogh in Van Gogh: Painted with Words. The Telegraph called his performance "[a] treat ... vividly bringing Van Gogh to impassioned, blue-eyed life."[20] Also in 2010, Cumberbatch began playing Sherlock Holmes in the first series of the BBC television programme Sherlock, to critical acclaim.[21][22] A second three-part series began on New Years Day 2012 in England[23] and was broadcast on PBS in the United States in May 2012.[24] For this role, Cumberbatch was nominated for an Emmy in the Lead Actor in A Miniseries or Movie category on 19 July 2012. Cumberbatch co-stars with Rebecca Hall as Christopher and Sylvia Tietjens in Parade's End, a BBC/HBO television miniseries airing on BBC2 in 2012. It is an adaptation of the tetralogy of novels of the same name by Ford Madox Ford. Its five episodes are directed by Susanna White and written by Tom Stoppard.[25][26]

Film

In 2006, Cumberbatch played William Pitt the Younger in Amazing Grace. The film is the story of William Wilberforce's intense and lengthy political fight in the late 18th century to eliminate the slave trade in the British Empire. Pitt was Wilberforce's closest friend and staunchest political ally, and became Prime Minister at an early age. The role garnered Cumberbatch a nomination for the London Film Critics Circle British Breakthrough Acting Award. Cumberbatch subsequently appeared in supporting roles in Atonement (2007) and The Other Boleyn Girl (2008). In 2009, he appeared in the Darwin biopic Creation as Darwin's friend Joseph Hooker. In 2010, he appeared in The Whistleblower.

He played Peter Guillam, George Smiley's right-hand man, in the 2011 adaptation of the John le Carré novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The film was directed by Tomas Alfredson and starred Gary Oldman and Colin Firth.[27] Cumberbatch also portrayed Major Stewart in Steven Spielberg's War Horse (2011). He provided the voice and motion-capture for both Smaug the Dragon and the Necromancer in The Hobbit (2012).[28] Cumberbatch also played Khan Noonien Singh in the J. J. Abrams-directed Star Trek Into Darkness (2013).[29][30]

Radio

In May 2009, BBC Radio 4 broadcast an adaptation of John Mortimer's novel Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders. Cumberbatch played the "young Rumpole", and Timothy West took the part of the "old Rumpole". Cumberbatch plays Capt Martin Crieff in the BBC's Cabin Pressure. He also played The Angel Islington in the 2013 BBC radio adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere.

Other work

Cumberbatch has also read for several audiobooks, including The Tempest, The Making of Music, Death in a White Tie, Artists in Crime, and Sherlock Holmes: The Rediscovered Railway Mysteries and Other Stories. He does the voice overs of several commercials, major names like Jaguar, Sony, Pimms, and Google+ doing the Seven Ages of Man monologue. For the 2012 London Olympics, he did a short film on the history of London for the BBC coverage to kick off the opening ceremony.[31] He made appearances for two Cheltenham Festivals, in July 2012 for Music wherein he read WWI poetry and prose accompanied by piano pieces[32] and in October 2012 for Literature wherein he discussed Sherlock and Parade's End[33] at The Centaur.

Personal life

For over 12 years, Cumberbatch was in a relationship with actress Olivia Poulet, whom he met at university.[34][35]

Charity work

Cumberbatch is an ambassador of The Prince's Trust, a charity founded by Charles, Prince of Wales that aims to help disadvantaged young people of the UK. During the "2012 Prince's Trust Palace to Palace" cycling event in which he participated in, the actor stated that "The Prince's Trust is a charity which I am passionate about helping. Young people are our future, and with so many struggling to find work in the UK, I feel it is vital we do everything we can to make sure all young people have the opportunities to succeed."[36]

He is also a supporter of Dramatic Need, a charity that promotes creative expression as a tool for conflict resolution, social development, gender empowerment and the assimilation of health messages in underprivileged communities.[37]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2002 Fields of Gold Jeremy
2002 Hills Like White Elephants The Man Short film
2003 To Kill a King Royalist
2004 Hawking Stephen Hawking[38]
2006 Starter for 10 Patrick Watts
2006 Amazing Grace William Pitt
2007 Inseparable Joe/Charlie Short film
2007 Atonement Paul Marshall
2008 Other Boleyn Girl, TheThe Other Boleyn Girl William Carey
2009 Creation Joseph Hooker
2009 Marple: Murder Is Easy Luke Fitzwilliam
2010 Burlesque Fairytales Henry Clark
2010 Four Lions Negotiator
2010 Van Gogh: Painted with Words Vincent van Gogh[39]
2010 Third Star James
2010 Whistleblower, TheThe Whistleblower Nick Kaufman
2011 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Peter Guillam[40]
2011 War Horse Major Jamie Stewart[41]
2011 Wreckers David[42]
2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey The Necromancer[43]
2013 Star Trek Into Darkness John Harrison/Khan Noonien Singh[44]
2013 12 Years a Slave William Ford[45]
2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Smaug
The Necromancer[46]
2013 August: Osage County "Little" Charles Aiken[47]
2013 The Fifth Estate Julian Assange[48]

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2000 Heartbeat Charles 1 episode
2002 Tipping the Velvet Freddy
2002 Silent Witness Warren Reid 2 episodes
2003 Cambridge Spies Edward Hand
2003 Spooks Jim North 1 episode
2003 Fortysomething Rory Slippery 6 episodes
2004 Dunkirk Lt. Jimmy Langley Documentary
2004 Heartbeat Toby Fisher 1 episode
2005 Nathan Barley Robin 2 episodes
2005 To the Ends of the Earth Edmund Talbot[49] 3 episodes
2005 Broken News Will Parker 3 episodes
2005 The Man Who Predicted 9/11 Narrator Documentary
2008 Last Enemy, TheThe Last Enemy Stephen Ezard[50] 5 episodes
2008 Picture This Narrator Documentary
3 episodes
2009 Small Island Bernard[51]
2009 South Pacific Narrator Documentary
6 episodes
2010 Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch, TheThe Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch Presenter[52] Documentary
2010 Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking Narrator[53] Documentary
3 episodes
2010–present Sherlock Sherlock Holmes[54] 6 episodes
2011 Curiosity Narrator Documentary
2012 Stephen Hawking's Grand Design Narrator[55] Documentary
3 episodes
2013 Parade's End Christopher Tietjens[56] 5 episodes
2013 The Simpsons British Prime Minister
Severus Snape		 Voice only
Episode "Love is a Many-Splintered Thing"

Theatre

Year Title Role Venue
2001 Love's Labour's Lost Ferdinand[57] Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
2001 A Midsummer Night's Dream Demetrius[58] Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
2002 As You Like It Orlando[59] Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
2002 Romeo and Juliet Benvolio[60] Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
2002 Oh, What a Lovely War! Unknown[61] Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
2004 Lady from the Sea, TheThe Lady from the Sea Lyngstrand[62] Almeida Theatre
2005 Hedda Gabler Tesman[63] Almeida Theatre
Duke of York's Theatre
2006 Period of Adjustment George[64] Almeida Theatre
2007 Rhinoceros Bérenger[65] Royal Court Theatre
2007 Arsonists, TheThe Arsonists Eisenring[65] Royal Court Theatre
2008 City, TheThe City Chris[66] Royal Court Theatre
2010 After the Dance David Scott-Fowler[67] Royal National Theatre
2010 The Children's Monologues Unknown[68] Old Vic Theatre
2011 Frankenstein The Creature/Victor Frankenstein[67] Royal National Theatre

Radio

Year Title Role Notes
2004 Raj Quartet, TheThe Raj Quartet Nigel Rowan BBC Radio 4
2004 Kepler Johannes Kepler BBC Radio 4
2004 Recruiting Officer, TheThe Recruiting Officer Worthy BBC Radio 4
2004 Odyssey, TheThe Odyssey Telemachus BBC Radio 4
2004 Biggest Secret, TheThe Biggest Secret Captain Rob Collins BBC Radio 4
2004 Far Side of the World, TheThe Far Side of the World Narrator BBC Radio 4
2004 Surgeons Mate, TheThe Surgeons Mate Narrator BBC Radio 4
2004 Mr. Norris Changes Trains Narrator BBC Radio 4
2005 Le Pere Goriot Narrator BBC Radio 4
2005 Seven Women Tovey BBC Radio 4
2005 Medical Humanities: Baptism by Rotation Narrator BBC Radio 4
2005 Fieldstudy: The Field Narrator BBC Radio 4
2005 Cocktail Party, TheThe Cocktail Party Peter Quilpe BBC Radio 4
2006 Possessed, TheThe Possessed Nikolai Stavrogin BBC Radio 3
2008 Pillow Book, TheThe Pillow Book Tadanobu BBC Radio 4
2008 Blake 7 The Early Years Townsend
2008 Last Days of Grace, TheThe Last Days of Grace GF BBC Radio 4
2008 At War with Wellington Duke of Wellington BBC Radio 4
2008 Chatterton: The Allington Solution Thomas Chatterton BBC Radio 4
2008 Spellbound Dr Murchison BBC Radio 4
2008 Rainy Season Narrator BBC Radio 4
2008 Tiger's Tale, TheThe Tiger's Tale Narrator BBC Radio 4
2008 Words and Music: Italian Fantasy Narrator BBC Radio 4
2008 Doctor Who: Forty-Five Howard Carter
Thing 2
2008–present Cabin Pressure Capt. Martin Crieff BBC Radio 4
2009 Good Evening Dudley Moore BBC Radio 4
2009 Little Red Hen Narrator Ladybird
2009 Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders Young Rumpole BBC Radio 4
2009 Metamorphosis Narrator BBC Radio 7
2010 Rumpole and the Family Pride Young Rumpole BBC Radio 4
2010 Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle Young Rumpole BBC Radio 4
2010 Words for You: The Next Chapter Narrator
2011 Tom and Viv TS Eliot BBC Radio 7
2012 Rumpole and the Man of God Young Rumpole[69] BBC Radio 4
2012 Rumpole and the Explosive Evidence Young Rumpole[70] BBC Radio 4
2012 Rumpole and the Gentle Art of Blackmail[71] Young Rumpole BBC Radio 4
2012 Rumpole and the Expert Witness Young Rumpole BBC Radio 4
2013 Copenhagen Werner Heisenberg[72] BBC Radio 3
2013 Neverwhere[73][74] Angel Islington BBC Radio 4

Video games

Year Title Role Notes
2011 Nightjar, TheThe Nightjar Narrator[75] Voice

Awards and nominations

Year Award Title Result
2001 Ian Charleson Awards – Best Classical Stage Performance[76] Love's Labor Lost Nominated
2004 Golden Nymph for Television Films – Best Performance by an Actor Hawking Won
2004 BAFTA Television Award – Best Actor Hawking Nominated
2005 Golden Nymph for Mini-Series – Best Performance by an Actor To the Ends of the Earth Won
2005 Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role Hedda Gabler Nominated
2005 Ian Charleson Awards – Best Classical Stage Performance[76] Hedda Gabler Won
2006 London Film Critics Circle Award for British Breakthrough Amazing Grace Nominated
2008 Satellite Award – Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Film Last Enemy, TheThe Last Enemy Nominated
2009 BAFTA Television Award – Best Supporting Actor[17] Small Island Nominated
2010 Crime Thriller Awards – Best Actor Sherlock Won
2011 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards – Best Actor Sherlock Won
2011 National Television Awards – Outstanding Drama Performance Sherlock Nominated
2011 BAFTA Television Awards – Best Leading Actor Sherlock Nominated
2011 TV Choice Awards – Best Actor Sherlock Nominated
2011 British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Nominated
2011 Chlotrudis Award for Best Cast Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Nominated
2011 Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast[77] Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Won
2011 Georgia Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast[78] Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Won
2011 GQ U.K. magazine Actor of the Year[79] Himself Won
2011 Evening Standard Theatre Awards – Best Actor (with Jonny Lee Miller)[80] Frankenstein Won
2011 YouMovie Award for Best Cast[81] Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Won
2012 YouMovie Award for Best Supporting Actor[81] Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Nominated
2012 Italian Online Film Actors & Dubbers Award for Best Foreign Cast[82] Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Won
2012 Olivier Award for Best Actor (with Jonny Lee Miller)[83] Frankenstein Won
2012 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards – Best Actor[84] Frankenstein Won
2012 Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Movie/Miniseries Actor[85] Sherlock Won
2012 Primetime Emmy Award – Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie[86] Sherlock Nominated
2012 BAFTA Television Awards – Best Leading Actor[87] Sherlock Nominated
2012 TV Choice Awards – Best Actor Sherlock Won
2012 Crime Thriller Awards – Best Actor Sherlock Won
2012 Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film[88][89] Sherlock Won
2013 Golden Globe Award – Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture made for TV[90] Sherlock Nominated
2013 National Television Awards – Outstanding Drama Performance[91] Sherlock Nominated
2013 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards  – Best Actor [92] Sherlock and Parade's End Won

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