Benedict Cumberbatch is known for his role as Sherlock Holmes on the BBC TV show "Sherlock (2010-)".

Some other TV shows he appeared on are "Tipping the Velvet", "Silent Witness", "Cambridge Spies", "MI-5", "Fortysomething", "Heartbeat", "Nathan Barley", "To the Ends of the Earth", "Broken News", "The Last Enemy", "Agatha Christie's Marple", "Parade's End" and "The Hollow Crown".

He played William Prince Ford in the movie "12 Years a Slave (2013)", Khan Noonien Singh in "Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)" and Stephen Strange (a.k.a. Doctor Strange) in "Doctor Strange (2016)" and "Thor: Ragnarok (2017)".

Some other movies he appeared in are "Fields of Gold (2002)", "To Kill a King (2003)", "Dunkirk (2004)", "Hawking (2004)", "Starter for 10 (2006)", "Amazing Grace (2006)", "Atonement (2007)", "Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)", "The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)", "Burlesque Fairytales (2009)", "Creation (2009)", "Small Island (2009)", "Four Lions (2010)", "Painted with Words (2010)", "Third Star (2010)", "The Whistleblower (2010)", "Frankenstein (2011)", "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)", "War Horse (2011)", "Wreckers (2011)", "The Fifth Estate (2013)", "August: Osage County (2013)", "Fifty Years on Stage (2013)", "The Imitation Game (2014)", "Black Mass (2015)", "Hamlet (2015)" and "Zoolander 2 (2015)".

He was the voices of Smaug, The Necromancer and Sauron in the movies "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)", The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)" and "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)".

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