Benedict Cumberbatch Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Benedict Cumberbatch filmography covers 65 movie titles and 24 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Benedict Cumberbatch movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• To Kill a King (2003) as Royalist
• Hawking (2004) as Stephen Hawking
• Amazing Grace (2006) as William Pitt
• Starter for 10 (2006) as Patrick Watts
• Atonement (2007) as Paul Marshall
• Inseparable (2007) as Joe / Charlie
• Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007) as Alexander Masters
• The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) as William Carey
• Creation (2009) as Joseph Dalton Hooker
• Four Lions (2010) as Negotiator
• The Whistleblower (2010) as Nick Kaufman
• Third Star (2010) as James
• Van Gogh: Painted with Words (2010) as Vincent Van Gogh
• National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (2011) as The Creature / Victor Frankenstein
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) as Peter Guillam
• War Horse (2011) as Maj. Jamie Stewart
• Wreckers (2011) as David
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) as Necromancer
• 12 Years a Slave (2013) as William Ford
• August: Osage County (2013) as Little Charles Aiken
• Jerusalem (2013) as Narrator (voice)
• Little Favour (2013) as Wallace
• Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) as John Harrison / Khan
• The Fifth Estate (2013) as Julian Assange
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) as Smaug / Sauron
• Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet (2014) as Narrator
• Penguins of Madagascar (2014) as Classified (voice)
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) as Smaug / Sauron (voice)
• The Imitation Game (2014) as Alan Turing
• Unlocking Sherlock (2014) as Himself / Sherlock Holmes
• Black Mass (2015) as Billy Bulger
• National Theatre Live: Hamlet (2015) as Hamlet
• Doctor Strange (2016) as Dr. Stephen Strange
• Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016) as Sherlock Holmes
• Zoolander 2 (2016) as All
• Thor: Ragnarok (2017) as Doctor Strange
• Walk with Me (2017) as Narrator (voice)
• Avengers: Infinity War (2018) as Doctor Strange
• Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018) as Shere Khan (voice)
• The Child in Time (2018) as Stephen Lewis
• The Current War (2018) as Thomas Edison
• The Grinch (2018) as Grinch (voice)
• 1917 (2019) as Colonel MacKenzie
• Avengers: Endgame (2019) as Doctor Strange
• Between Two Ferns: The Movie (2019) as Benedict Cumberbatch
• Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019) as Dominic Cummings
• The Dog Days of Winter (2019) as The Grinch (voice)
• Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King (2020) as Self
• The Courier (2020) as Greville Wynne
• Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special (2021) as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage)
• Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) as Doctor Strange
• The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021) as Louis Wain
• The Mauritanian (2021) as Lt. Stuart Couch
• The Power of the Dog (2021) as Phil Burbank
• Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) as Doctor Stephen Strange
• Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) as Self - Doctor Stephen Strange
• Minions & More Volume 1 (2022) as The Grinch (voice)
• Poison (2023) as Harry Pope
• The End We Start From (2023) as AB
• The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023) as Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist
• The Book of Clarence (2024) as Benjamin
• The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (2024) as Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage)
• The Phoenician Scheme (2025) as Uncle Nubar
• The Roses (2025) as Theo Rose
• The Thing with Feathers (2025) as Dad

Benedict Cumberbatch television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Benedict Cumberbatch; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• Agatha Christie's Marple as Luke Fitzwilliam
• Cambridge Spies as Edward Hand
• Dunkirk as Lt Jimmy Langley
• Eric as Vincent
• Fortysomething as Rory Slippery
• Good Omens as Satan (voice)
• Heartbeat as Toby Fisher; Charles
• Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking as Stephen Hawking
• Marvel Studios Legends as Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Nathan Barley as Robin
• Parade's End as Christopher Tietjens
• Patrick Melrose as Patrick Melrose
• Sherlock as Sherlock Holmes
• Silent Witness as Warren Reid
• South Pacific as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Spooks as Jim North
• Stephen Hawking's Grand Design as Narrator (voice)
• The Hollow Crown as Richard; Richard III
• The Last Enemy as Stephen Ezard
• The Oscars as Self
• The Simpsons as Severus Snape / Prime Minister (voice); Quilloughby (voice)
• Tipping the Velvet as Freddy
• To the Ends of the Earth as Edmund Talbot
• What If...? as Doctor Strange (voice); Doctor Strange / Strange Supreme (voice); Doctor Strange / Strange-Supreme (voice); Strange Supreme / Demon Strange (voice)

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Benedict Cumberbatch's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.