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 and since then has starred in the Royal National Theatre productions After the Dance and Frankenstein. In 2015, he played William Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre.
His screen work includes television appearances in Heartbeat, Silent Witness and Fortysomething before starring as Stephen Hawking in the television film Hawking. 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. He appeared in To Kill a King and he went on to appear in the films Atonement and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. He has starred in the films Star Trek Into Darkness as Khan Noonien Singh, 12 Years a Slave as William Prince Ford, The Fifth Estate as Julian Assange, and The Imitation Game as Alan Turing. Through voice and motion capture, he played the characters of Smaug and The Necromancer in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film series. He plays Dr. Stephen Strange in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with the release of Doctor Strange and reprised the role in Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
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 and The Power of the Dog 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.
Theatre
Radio
| Year | Title | Role | |
| 2004 | Mansfield Park | Edmund Bertram | |
| 2004 | Kepler | Johannes Kepler | |
| 2004 | The Raj Quartet | ||
| 2004 | The Recruiting Officer | Worthy | |
| 2004 | The Odyssey | Telemachus | |
| 2004 | The Biggest Secret | ||
| 2004 | The Far Side of the World | Narrator | |
| 2004 | The Surgeon's Mate | Narrator | |
| 2004 | Mr. Norris Changes Trains | Narrator | |
| 2005 | Le Pere Goriot | Narrator | |
| 2005 | Seven Women | Tovey | |
| 2005 | Medical Humanities: Baptism by Rotation | Narrator | |
| 2005 | Fieldstudy: The Field | Narrator | |
| 2005 | The Cocktail Party | ||
| 2006 | The Possessed | ||
| 2008 | The Pillow Book | Tadanobu | |
| 2008 | Blake's 7: The Early Years | Townsend | |
| 2008 | Last Days of Grace | GF | |
| 2008 | At War with Wellington | Duke of Wellington | |
| 2008 | Chatterton: The Allington Solution | ||
| 2008 | Spellbound | ||
| 2008 | Rainy Season | Narrator | |
| 2008 | The Tiger's Tale | Narrator | |
| 2008 | Words and Music: Italian Fantasy | Narrator | |
| 2008 | Doctor Who: Forty-Five | ||
| 2008–2014 | Cabin Pressure | ||
| 2008 | Metamorphosis | Narrator | |
| 2009 | Good Evening | Dudley Moore | |
| 2009 | Little Red Hen | Narrator | |
| 2009 | Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders | ||
| 2010 | Rumpole and the Family Pride | ||
| 2010 | Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle | ||
| 2010 | Words for You: The Next Chapter | Narrator | |
| 2011 | Tom and Viv | T. S. Eliot | |
| 2012 | Rumpole and the Man of God | ||
| 2012 | Rumpole and the Explosive Evidence | ||
| 2012 | Rumpole and the Gentle Art of Blackmail | ||
| 2012 | Rumpole and the Expert Witness | ||
| 2013 | Copenhagen | Werner Heisenberg | |
| 2013 | Neverwhere | ||
| 2014 | Rumpole and the Old Boy Net | Rumpole | |
| 2014 | Rumpole and the Sleeping Partners | Rumpole | |
| 2015 | My Dear Bessie | Chris |
Narration
| Year | Title | Notes | |
| 2006 | Casanova | Track: "Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova" | |
| 2009 | South Pacific | Documentary; 6 episodes | |
| 2010 | Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking | Documentary; 3 episodes | |
| 2011 | Curiosity | Documentary; episode "Did God Create the Universe?" | |
| 2012 | Stephen Hawking's Grand Design | Documentary; 3 episodes | |
| 2012 | Our War | Documentary narrating Lt. Mark Evison diary; 1 episodes | |
| 2012 | Late Night Tales: Friendly Fires | Track: "Flat of Angles " | |
| 2013 | Late Night Tales: Röyksopp | Track: "Flat of Angles " | |
| 2013 | Late Night Tales: Bonobo | Track: "Flat of Angles " | |
| 2013 | Jerusalem | Documentary | |
| 2013 | Usher House | Opera by Gordon Getty | |
| 2014 | Late Night Tales: Django Django | Track: "Flat of Angles " | |
| 2014 | Globalised Slavery | Documentary by The Guardian | |
| 2014 | Cristiano Ronaldo: The World at His Feet | Documentary | |
| 2017 | Walk with Me – A Journal into Mindfulness featuring Thich Nhat Hanh | Documentary | |
| 2021 | Sleep Sound | Animated short | |
| 2022 | Super/Natural | Documentary: 6 episodes |