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Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch is an English actor. He has received various accolades, including a British Academy Television Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Laurence Olivier Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globes. In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2015, h…
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s look at what he actually did say. Interviewed for Radio Times by Decca Aitkenhead, he talked about sudden real post- Sherlock fame, touched on his personal life and lucidly compared the similarities and differences between that role and the one he brings to our screens soon this Friday, that of Christopher Tietjens in Ford Madox Ford
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“s look at what he actually did say. Interviewed for Radio Times by Decca Aitkenhead, he talked about sudden real post- Sherlock fame, touched on his personal life and lucidly compared the similarities and differences between that role and the one he brings to our screens soon this Friday, that of Christopher Tietjens in Ford Madox Ford”
“complex, funny and dangerous character”
“It taught me that you come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It”
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Cumberbatch was honoured at the 58th Sitges Film Festival with the Time Machine Award (The Màquina del Temps)
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Fronted a recycled nylon campaign for Prada alongside Emma Watson
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Was confirmed as executive producer and lead role in the miniseries Eric for streaming service Netflix
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Filming began on The End We Start From, an adaptation of the Megan Hunter novel of the same name, the rights to which the company had acquired in 2017
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Cumberbatch starred in the drama The Power of the Dog, written and directed by Jane Campion
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Awarded British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for Patrick Melrose (2019).
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Appeared briefly as British Colonel Mackenzie in Sam Mendes' World War I film 1917
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Cumberbatch appeared as British political strategist Dominic Cummings (who served as the campaign director of Vote Leave, the official campaign in favour of the UK leaving the European Union) in HBO and Channel 4's telev
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PETA declared Cumberbatch and director Ava DuVernay to be the Most Beautiful Vegan Celebs of 2018
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Released album “The Order of Time”.
Cumberbatch voiced the title character in the Illumination animated film The Grinch, and provided the voice and did performance capture for the tiger Shere Khan in Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, Netflix's film adaptation
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Told The Big Issue "I understand why some might think I should be housing people instead of complaining about a government not doing it
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Was once again nominated for an Emmy as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie, this time for Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
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Cumberbatch portrayed Richard III in Shakespeare's play of the same name, as part of the second series of films for The Hollow Crown, which aired in both Britain and the United States
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Cumberbatch was one of over 280 figures from the arts world who backed a vote for the United Kingdom to stay in the European Union with regard to the June 2016 referendum on that issue
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Was named one of GQ's 50 best dressed British men
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Played the title role in Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre
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Awarded British Independent Film Awards (2014).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Sherlock (2014).
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Cumberbatch publicly backed "Hacked Off" and its campaign for UK press self-regulation by "safeguarding the press from political interference while also giving vital protection to the vulnerable
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Cumberbatch was included in The Sunday Times "100 Makers of the 21st Century", cited as this generation's Laurence Olivier
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Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2015, he was appointed a CBE for services to performing arts and charity
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Cumberbatch is a supporter of LGBT+ rights and in July 2013 officiated at the same-sex marriage of friends.
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“You just have to lose your shit on a carpeted floor, in a place that looks a little bit like a mundane government building. It was just me as well, with four static cameras and all the sensors.”
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Protested against what he perceived were civil liberties violations by the UK government
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Cumberbatch was ranked fifth in the Tatler's "Most Fascinating People in Britain" list, higher than the Duchess of Cambridge and just below Queen Elizabeth II
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Cumberbatch appeared in J
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Cumberbatch narrated the documentary film Jerusalem about the ancient city
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Awarded Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor (2012).
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Awarded Critics' Choice Television Award (2012).
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Awarded Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for Sherlock (2012).
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Cumberbatch provided the voice and motion-capture for both Smaug the Dragon and the Necromancer in An Unexpected Journey, the first instalment of The Hobbit series based on the novel of the same name by J
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Led the BBC and HBO co-produced miniseries Parade's End with Rebecca Hall
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Lent his voice to a four-part, spoken-word track titled "Flat of Angles" for Late Night Tales based on a story written by author and poet Simon Cleary, the final instalment of which was released on 9 May 2014
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Provided the voice of Dante Alighieri in the documentary Girlfriend in a Coma
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When he received the Olivier Award, Evening Standard Award and Critics' Circle Theatre Award for his performance in Frankenstein
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Appeared in The Whistleblower as well as Four Lions
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Cumberbatch portrayed Vincent van Gogh in Van Gogh: Painted with Words
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Appeared in Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: Murder Is Easy as Luke Fitzwilliam
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Cumberbatch played the lead character in the BBC miniseries drama The Last Enemy, earning a Satellite Award nomination for Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Film
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Had a supporting role in The Other Boleyn Girl, and the next year he appeared in the Charles Darwin biographical film Creation as Darwin's friend Joseph Hooker
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Cumberbatch played late 18th/early 19th century British parliamentarian William Pitt the Younger in Amazing Grace, a role that garnered him a nomination for the London Film Critics Circle "British Breakthrough Acting Awa
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Cumberbatch and two friends (Theo and Denise Black) were abducted, after bursting a tyre, and held at gunpoint by a group of locals
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And featured alongside Tom Hardy in the television adaptation of Stuart: A Life Backwards, which aired on the BBC in September 2007
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Cumberbatch portrayed protagonist Edmund Talbot in the miniseries To the Ends of the Earth, based on Sir William Golding's trilogy; during filming he said he experienced a carjacking in South Africa, managing to escape
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Has been an ambassador, and in 2015 patron, for the Motor Neurone Disease Association and in 2014 did the Ice Bucket Challenge for the organisation
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Landed his first main part in television as Stephen Hawking in Hawking
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Cumberbatch joined the Stop the War Coalition protest in London against the Iraq War
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Born 1976-07-19.
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