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Hes very popular as a television, film, and playwright. See more ideas about benedict cumberbatch, benedict, benedict cumberbatch hamlet. Apr 28, 2019 benedict cumberbatch, a native of london, is commonly known as ben in the hollywood industry. Benedict cumberbatch movies to fill the sherlock void. He has also starred in tom stoppards adaptation of parades end. Movies with benedict cumberbatch in the title role. With benedict cumberbatch, martin freeman, una stubbs, rupert graves. A graduate of the victoria university of manchester, he continued his training at the london academy of music and dramatic art, obtaining a master of arts in classical acting. In 2010, he became a household name as sherlock holmes on the british television series sherlock 2010. Benedict cumberbatch biography and filmography benedict. After a long friendship of more than one and half decade, he is married to his longtime girlfriend, sophie hunter.
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Benedict timothy carlton cumberbatch was born and raised in london, england. He won many prestigious awards, including an emmy for portraying sherlock holmes on a tv show. Benedict cumberbatch bio, movies, tv shows, wife, children. Benedict cumberbatch movies and tv shows 12 sherlock. Cumberbatch has worked in theatre, television, film and radio. He became popular for portraying a modern sherlock holmes in the tv series sherlock 2010 and then garnered substantial roles in such films as the imitation game 2014 and doctor strange 2016. Born benedict timothy carlton cumberbatch, the english actor has demonstrated his talents on film, television radio and theater. Cumberbatch is widely recognised as a stage actor, covering a repertoire from ibsen and shakespeare to the theatre of the absurd. See more ideas about benedict cumberbatch, sherlock and sherlock bbc.
List of benedict cumberbatch performances wikipedia. Sherlock and john investigate the ghosts of a young man who has been seeing monstrous hounds out in the woods where his father died. In 2009, he was cast as joseph hooker in charles darwins biopic creation. This tv series is released every two years and each season includes 3 episodes, but sherlock 2016 is only a long episode. Black mass stories about gangsters are an integral part ofmass culture in our time.
Entertainment weekly days ahead of his saturday night live hosting gig last. Jimmy fallons mad lib theater with benedict cumberbatch. The theater with a focus on shakespeare was his first acting venue. First i decided jeremy brett was the best sherlock holmes on the screen, then johnny lee miller, then benedict cumberbatch, but now i think its jeremy brett for the first season, before he put too much brett into the character. Theres nothing wrong with cumberbatch s interpretation well, there is.
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