Benedict Cumberbatch: movies and TV shows
Benedict Cumberbatch has 177 credits in the archive: 117 films and 60 TV series, from 1953 to 2027. Highest rated: Confessions II – The Film (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1953 – 2027 · busiest year: 2021 (14 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | Wife & Dog | Film | — | 50 | |
| 2026 | Confessions II – The Film | Self | Film | 8.8 | 49 |
| 2026 | David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth | Self | Film | 7.0 | 49 |
| 2026 | How to Live on Earth | Self | Film | — | 49 |
| 2025 | The Roses | Theo Rose | Film | 6.7 | 48 |
| 2025 | The Roses | Film | 6.7 | 48 | |
| 2025 | The Phoenician Scheme | Uncle Nubar | Film | 6.5 | 48 |
| 2025 | The Thing with Feathers | Dad | Film | 6.6 | 48 |
| 2025 | Together for Palestine | Self | Film | 8.2 | 48 |
| 2025 | Tilda Swinton: The Wildcard | Self | Film | — | 48 |
| 2024 | We Live in Time | Film | 7.2 | 47 | |
| 2024 | Eric | Vincent | TV | 7.0 | 47 |
| 2024 | Eric | TV | 7.0 | 47 | |
| 2024 | The Book of Clarence | Benjamin | Film | 5.8 | 47 |
| 2024 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More | Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage) | Film | 7.5 | 47 |
| 2024 | Placebo: This Search for Meaning | Self | Film | — | 47 |
| 2023 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar | Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist | Film | 7.2 | 46 |
| 2023 | Poison | Harry Pope | Film | 6.9 | 46 |
| 2023 | The End We Start From | AB | Film | 5.8 | 46 |
| 2023 | The End We Start From | Film | 5.8 | 46 | |
| 2023 | Mog's Christmas | Mr. Thomas (voice) | Film | 7.3 | 46 |
| 2023 | Arctic: Our Frozen Planet | Narrator | Film | 7.0 | 46 |
| 2023 | James Blunt: One Brit Wonder | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 46 |
| 2022 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Doctor Stephen Strange | Film | 7.2 | 45 |
| 2022 | Minions & More Volume 1 | The Grinch (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 45 |
| 2022 | Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge | Self | TV | 6.7 | 45 |
| 2022 | Super/Natural | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV | 7.3 | 45 |
| 2022 | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Self - Doctor Stephen Strange | Film | 7.1 | 45 |
| 2022 | The Tiger Who Came to Tea | Daddy (voice) | Film | 6.4 | 45 |
| 2022 | Behind the Scenes with Jane Campion | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.1 | 45 |
| 2022 | Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog | Film | — | 45 | |
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Doctor Strange | Film | 7.9 | 44 |
| 2021 | What If...? | Doctor Strange (voice) | TV | 8.0 | 44 |
| 2021 | What If...? | Doctor Strange / Strange Supreme (voice) | TV | 8.0 | 44 |
| 2021 | What If...? | Doctor Strange / Strange-Supreme (voice) | TV | 8.0 | 44 |
| 2021 | What If...? | Strange Supreme / Demon Strange (voice) | TV | 8.0 | 44 |
| 2021 | Marvel Studios Legends | Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (archive footage) (uncredited) | TV | 7.4 | 44 |
| 2021 | The Power of the Dog | Phil Burbank | Film | 6.7 | 44 |
| 2021 | The Mauritanian | Lt. Stuart Couch | Film | 7.4 | 44 |
| 2021 | The Mauritanian | Film | 7.4 | 44 | |
| 2021 | The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Louis Wain | Film | 6.9 | 44 |
| 2021 | The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Film | 6.9 | 44 | |
| 2021 | Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall | Film | 7.5 | 44 | |
| 2021 | Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special | Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage) | Film | 6.9 | 44 |
| 2021 | Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel | Self | Film | 7.0 | 44 |
| 2020 | The Courier | Greville Wynne | Film | 7.0 | 43 |
| 2020 | The Courier | Film | 7.0 | 43 | |
| 2020 | Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King | Self | Film | 8.1 | 43 |
| 2020 | Antarctica | Self - Narrator | Film | 6.3 | 43 |
| 2019 | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Self | TV | 6.3 | 42 |
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | Doctor Strange | Film | 8.2 | 42 |
| 2019 | Good Omens | Satan (voice) | TV | 8.0 | 42 |
| 2019 | 1917 | Colonel MacKenzie | Film | 8.0 | 42 |
| 2019 | Brexit: The Uncivil War | Dominic Cummings | Film | 6.6 | 42 |
| 2019 | Between Two Ferns: The Movie | Benedict Cumberbatch | Film | 5.9 | 42 |
| 2019 | The Dog Days of Winter | The Grinch (voice) | Film | 5.8 | 42 |
| 2019 | Cindy-Lou's Yule Log | The Grinch | Film | 10.0 | 42 |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | Doctor Strange | Film | 8.2 | 41 |
| 2018 | The Grinch | Grinch (voice) | Film | 6.9 | 41 |
| 2018 | Patrick Melrose | Patrick Melrose | TV | 7.5 | 41 |
| 2018 | Patrick Melrose | TV | 7.5 | 41 | |
| 2018 | Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle | Shere Khan (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 41 |
| 2018 | The Current War | Thomas Edison | Film | 6.7 | 41 |
| 2018 | The Child in Time | Stephen Lewis | Film | 5.8 | 41 |
| 2018 | The Child in Time | Film | 5.8 | 41 | |
| 2017 | Thor: Ragnarok | Doctor Strange | Film | 7.6 | 40 |
| 2017 | Walk with Me | Narrator (voice) | Film | 5.8 | 40 |
| 2016 | Doctor Strange | Dr. Stephen Strange | Film | 7.4 | 39 |
| 2016 | Sherlock: The Abominable Bride | Sherlock Holmes | Film | 7.8 | 39 |
| 2016 | Zoolander 2 | All | Film | 4.9 | 39 |
| 2016 | Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock | Himself | Film | 7.3 | 39 |
| 2016 | Naples '44 | Norman Lewis (voice) | Film | 5.7 | 39 |
| 2016 | Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | Self - Performer | Film | 7.2 | 39 |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self - Guest | TV | 6.1 | 38 |
| 2015 | Black Mass | Billy Bulger | Film | 6.5 | 38 |
| 2015 | National Theatre Live: Hamlet | Hamlet | Film | 7.5 | 38 |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self - Guest | TV | 5.8 | 37 |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | TV | 5.1 | 37 |
| 2014 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Smaug / Sauron (voice) | Film | 7.3 | 37 |
| 2014 | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self | TV | 4.2 | 37 |
| 2014 | The Imitation Game | Alan Turing | Film | 8.0 | 37 |
| 2014 | Penguins of Madagascar | Classified (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 37 |
| 2014 | 9 Kisses | Man at Costume Party | Film | 5.5 | 37 |
| 2014 | Unlocking Sherlock | Himself / Sherlock Holmes | Film | 7.9 | 37 |
| 2014 | The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover | Agent Classified (voice) | Film | 6.3 | 37 |
| 2014 | Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet | Narrator | Film | 7.6 | 37 |
| 2014 | How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective | Self | Film | — | 37 |
| 2014 | Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D | Narrator (Voice) | Film | 6.5 | 37 |
| 2013 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Smaug / Sauron | Film | 7.6 | 36 |
| 2013 | Star Trek Into Darkness | John Harrison / Khan | Film | 7.3 | 36 |
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | William Ford | Film | 7.9 | 36 |
| 2013 | August: Osage County | Little Charles Aiken | Film | 6.9 | 36 |
| 2013 | The Fifth Estate | Julian Assange | Film | 6.0 | 36 |
| 2013 | Jerusalem | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.6 | 36 |
| 2013 | National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage | Rosencrantz | Film | 6.2 | 36 |
| 2013 | Little Favour | Wallace | Film | 6.5 | 36 |
| 2013 | Little Favour | Film | 6.5 | 36 | |
| 2013 | Sherlock: Many Happy Returns | Sherlock Holmes | Film | 8.0 | 36 |
| 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Necromancer | Film | 7.4 | 35 |
| 2012 | Why did you come to Japan? | Self | TV | — | 35 |
| 2012 | The Hollow Crown | Richard | TV | 7.4 | 35 |
| 2012 | The Hollow Crown | Richard III | TV | 7.4 | 35 |
| 2012 | Parade's End | Christopher Tietjens | TV | 6.4 | 35 |
| 2012 | Stephen Hawking's Grand Design | Narrator (voice) | TV | 7.5 | 35 |
| 2012 | Sherlock: Uncovered | Sherlock, Self | Film | 10.0 | 35 |
| 2012 | Girlfriend in a Coma | Dante (voice) | Film | 6.9 | 35 |
| 2012 | The Dreams of William Golding | Reader | Film | — | 35 |
| 2012 | WWI's Tunnels of Death: The Big Dig | Narrator (Voice) | TV | 8.0 | 35 |
| 2012 | Frankenstein: A Modern Myth | Self / Frankenstein / The Monster | Film | 7.0 | 35 |
| 2011 | The Jonathan Ross Show | Self | TV | 5.2 | 34 |
| 2011 | War Horse | Maj. Jamie Stewart | Film | 7.3 | 34 |
| 2011 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Peter Guillam | Film | 6.6 | 34 |
| 2011 | Wreckers | David | Film | 5.2 | 34 |
| 2011 | National Theatre Live: Frankenstein | The Creature / Victor Frankenstein | Film | 7.7 | 34 |
| 2011 | The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch | Film | — | 34 | |
| 2010 | Conan | Self - Guest | TV | 7.2 | 33 |
| 2010 | Sherlock | Sherlock Holmes | TV | 8.5 | 33 |
| 2010 | The Whistleblower | Nick Kaufman | Film | 6.7 | 33 |
| 2010 | Four Lions | Negotiator | Film | 7.0 | 33 |
| 2010 | Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking | Stephen Hawking | TV | 7.8 | 33 |
| 2010 | Third Star | James | Film | 7.0 | 33 |
| 2010 | Van Gogh: Painted with Words | Vincent Van Gogh | Film | 7.3 | 33 |
| 2010 | Burlesque Fairytales | Henry Clark | Film | 5.6 | 33 |
| 2010 | Unlocking Sherlock | Himself | Film | 6.5 | 33 |
| 2009 | South Pacific | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV | 7.9 | 32 |
| 2009 | Small Island | Bernard | TV | 6.1 | 32 |
| 2009 | Creation | Joseph Dalton Hooker | Film | 6.4 | 32 |
| 2009 | The Turning Point | Guy Burgess | Film | — | 32 |
| 2008 | The Other Boleyn Girl | William Carey | Film | 6.7 | 31 |
| 2008 | The Last Enemy | Stephen Ezard | TV | 6.7 | 31 |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self | TV | 7.2 | 30 |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self - Guest | TV | 7.2 | 30 |
| 2007 | Atonement | Paul Marshall | Film | 7.6 | 30 |
| 2007 | Stuart: A Life Backwards | Alexander Masters | Film | 7.4 | 30 |
| 2007 | Inseparable | Joe / Charlie | Film | 7.1 | 30 |
| 2006 | The One Show | Self - Guest | TV | 4.4 | 29 |
| 2006 | Amazing Grace | William Pitt | Film | 6.9 | 29 |
| 2006 | Starter for 10 | Patrick Watts | Film | 6.4 | 29 |
| 2005 | Nathan Barley | Robin | TV | 7.3 | 28 |
| 2005 | To the Ends of the Earth | Edmund Talbot | TV | 6.1 | 28 |
| 2005 | Broken News | Will Parker | TV | 7.7 | 28 |
| 2005 | The Man Who Predicted 9/11 | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 28 |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Luke Fitzwilliam | TV | 7.8 | 27 |
| 2004 | Dunkirk | Lt Jimmy Langley | TV | 6.4 | 27 |
| 2004 | Hawking | Stephen Hawking | Film | 7.1 | 27 |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self - Guest | TV | 5.3 | 26 |
| 2003 | Fortysomething | Rory Slippery | TV | 7.5 | 26 |
| 2003 | Cambridge Spies | Edward Hand | TV | 6.4 | 26 |
| 2003 | To Kill a King | Royalist | Film | 5.8 | 26 |
| 2002 | Top Gear | Self | TV | 7.6 | 25 |
| 2002 | Spooks | Jim North | TV | 7.7 | 25 |
| 2002 | Timeshift | self | TV | 7.0 | 25 |
| 2002 | Tipping the Velvet | Freddy | TV | 6.8 | 25 |
| 2002 | Fields of Gold | Jeremy | Film | — | 25 |
| 2002 | Hills Like White Elephants | The Man | Film | 8.0 | 25 |
| 1997 | The View | Self | TV | 4.3 | 20 |
| 1997 | Leute heute | Self | TV | 5.2 | 20 |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self | TV | 6.4 | 19 |
| 1996 | Silent Witness | Warren Reid | TV | 7.6 | 19 |
| 1993 | GMTV | Self | TV | 5.8 | 16 |
| 1992 | Heartbeat | Toby Fisher | TV | 7.2 | 15 |
| 1992 | Heartbeat | Charles | TV | 7.2 | 15 |
| 1990 | Have I Got News for You | Self - Host | TV | 7.2 | 13 |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | Severus Snape / Prime Minister (voice) | TV | 8.0 | 12 |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | Quilloughby (voice) | TV | 8.0 | 12 |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Self | TV | 5.6 | 11 |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | TV | 6.9 | 1 |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Cameo (uncredited) | TV | 6.9 | 1 |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self | TV | 7.0 | 23 |
| Have I Got a Bit More News for You | Self - Presenter | TV | 7.1 | — | |
| Morning | Frank | Film | — | — | |
| Morning | Film | — | — | ||
| Migrations | Film | — | — | ||
| Blood on Snow | The Fisherman | Film | — | — | |
| Last Flight | Kirk Wallace Johnson | Film | — | — | |
| Last Flight | Film | — | — | ||
| Rogue Male | Film | — | — |