Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Fortysomething (TV Series) (2003)
- Feat. Hugh Laurie, Anna Chancellor, Benedict Cumberbatch
- Humorous Britcom starring Hugh Laurie as an anxiety ridden doctor amidst the meltdown of a midlife crisis. With his long–term marriage slowly…
- Hawking (2004)
- Dir. Philip Martin
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Firth
- BBC Miniseries interposes the fictionalised story of Stephen Hawking's overcoming motor neuron disease with a 1978 interview with Nobel Prize winning…
- Atonement (2007)
- Dir. Joe Wright
Feat. James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Romola Garai…
- Keira Knightley and James McAvoy play out a twisted, unrequited wartime love in this Bafta–adorned tragic–romance from the dir. of PRIDE…
- Other Boleyn Girl, The (2008)
- Dir. Justin Chadwick
Feat. Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana…
- Blue–ribbon adaptation of the best–selling novel by Philippa Gregory, which tells the compulsive true story of sisters Anne and Mary…
- Last Enemy, The (TV Mini-series) (2008)
- Dir. Iain B. MacDonald
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Anamaria Marinca, Max Beesley…
- Five–part BBC TV drama set in a near–future version of London, where the population is controlled via a centralised database that tracks…
- Creation (2009)
- Dir. Jon Amiel
Feat. Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Jeremy Northam…
- Paul Bettany adds another fine role to his resume in this big screen interpretation of the challenges faced by Charles Darwin as he struggles to…
- Small Island (2009)
- Dir. John Alexander
Feat. Naomie Harris, Ruth Wilson, Benedict Cumberbatch…
- Two–part BBC period drama set in the diaspora of Jamaican immigrants in England following WWII, where a woman (Naomie Harris) contends with…
- Sherlock - Series 1 (TV Series) (2010)
- Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs…
- Ingenious updating of the master detective finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
Benedict…
- Whistleblower, The (2010)
- Dir. Larysa Kondracki
Feat. Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Bellucci…
- Uncompromising drama with Rachel Weisz as an American cop whose stint as a Bosnian peacekeeper exposes her to a human trafficking ring run from…
- Third Star (2010)
- Dir. Hattie Dalton
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, JJ Feild, Tom Burke…
- Picturesque drama in which a young man (Cumberbatch) who is terminally ill with cancer sets out on a hiking trip to Barafundle Bay, on the…
- War Horse (2011)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Emily Watson…
- Steven Spielberg revives the magic of Old Hollywood with this rousing saga of a plucky farm stallion who goes on to inspire soldiers and citizens…
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
- Dir. Tomas Alfredson
Feat. Gary Oldman, Mark Strong, John Hurt…
- An enthralling, impeccably cast screen adaptation of John Le Carre’s quintessential cold war spy novel, centred on a retired George Smiley (Oldman)…
- Sherlock - Series 2 (TV Series) (2012)
- Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Mark Gatiss…
- Further episodes from this ingenious update of the master detective, with Benedict Cumberbatch's idiosyncratic take on the character nicely…
- Parade's End (TV Mini-Series) (2012)
- Dir. Susanna White
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Roger Allam…
- Benedict Cumberbatch plays an English aristocrat torn between loyalty to his beautiful but manipulative wife, and a young, passionate suffragette on…
- Hollow Crown, The (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Jeremy Irons, Ben Whishaw, Tom Hiddleston…
- A star–studded, BAFTA–nominated mini–series of adaptations of Shakespeare's history plays: Richard II, Henry IV Parts One and Two,…
- Star Trek - Into Darkness (Star Trek XII) (2013)
- Dir. J.J. Abrams
Feat. Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch…
- More of the same is a good thing in the case of J.J. Abrams' hit Star Trek reboot, with this fast–moving sequel centred on a formidable foe…
- Fifth Estate, The (5ifth Estate, The) (2013)
- Dir. Bill Condon
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Peter Capaldi…
- Benedict Cumberbatch plays Julian Assange in this urgent dramatisation of the WikiLeaks founder's controversial rise to prominence.
- Sherlock - Series 3 (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman
- Further episodes from this ingenious update of the master detective, with Benedict Cumberbatch's idiosyncratic take on the character nicely…
- August: Osage County (2013)
- Dir. John Wells
Feat. Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper…
- Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, and other heavy hitters come out swinging in this fierce, sometimes hysterical, screen adaptation of Tracy Letts'…
- Hobbit, The - The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
- Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage…
- Chapter two of Peter Jackson's epic adaptation of The Hobbit, which sees the party's quest to reclaim their homeland from Smaug continue. Bilbo…
- 12 Years a Slave (2013)
- Dir. Steve McQueen
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Paul Giamatti…
- Steve McQueen (HUNGER, SHAME) directs this powerful historical drama of a free black man from upstate New York who is abducted and sold into slavery.
- Imitation Game, The (2014)
- Dir. Morten Tyldum
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode…
- Entertaining, though hardly accurate, biopic of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, who here claims full credit for his work leading a team of…
- Penguins of Madagascar (2014)
- Dir. Eric Darnell, Simon J Smith
Feat. Tom McGrath, Benedict Cumberbatch, John Malkovich…
- The heroic quartet of penguins join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the…
- Black Mass (2015)
- Dir. Scott Cooper
Feat. Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson…
- True crime yarn with Johnny Depp disappearing into the role of notorious gangster Whitey Bulger, who became an FBI informant in order to take down a…
- Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2015)
- Dir. Douglas Mackinnon
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs…
- One–off holiday special with the modern Sherlock and Watson finding themselves back in 1890's London.
- Hollow Crown, The: Wars of the Roses (TV Series) (2015)
- Dir. Dominic Cooke
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugh Bonneville, Judi Dench…
- A second series of star–studded, exceptionally presented Shakespeare adaptations, with Henry VI in two parts, along with Richard III. Together…
- Doctor Strange (2016)
- Dir. Scott Derrickson
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams…
- The fourteenth film from the Marvel superhero franchise stars Cumberbatch as the title hero, a neurosurgeon disabled in a car crash who turns to a…
- Sherlock - Series 4 (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Toby Jones…
- Cumberbatch's beloved modern Sherlock is back on British soil once more, while Doctor Watson and Mary prepare for becoming first–time parents…
- Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
- Dir. Taika Waititi
Feat. Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett…
- New Zealand's most successful film–maker on home turf (and former Aro Valleyite) Taika Waititi makes his equally successful Hollywood debut…
- Child in Time, The (2017)
- Dir. Julian Farino
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Kelly MacDonald, Stephen Campbell Moore…
- Adaptation of a novel by acclaimed British author Ian McEwan (ATONEMENT) which presents a portrait of love and loss through the grief of two parents…