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Benedict Cumberbatch

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Benedict Cumberbatch

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Also known as Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch

English actor (born 1976)

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Benedict Cumberbatch is a British male artist from the United Kingdom who began his work period in 2001. Born on July 19, 1976, he stands 1.83 meters tall and has three children. His artistic output includes five works, with top titles listed as *Cabin Pressure : A-Z*, *Rumpole*, *Rumpole : The Sleeping Partners & Other Stories*, *Rumpole : The Gentle Art of Blackmail & Other Stories*, and *The last enemy*.

Associated tags for his work include spoken word, british, poetry, theatre, and sherlock. He has been recognized in the Time 100 collection. Similar artists noted in connection with his profile include Paul Morley, Dervla Kirwan, Terence Stamp, Rick Holland, and Maureen Lipman.

Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1976-07-19
Works
5

Top works

  • Cabin Pressure : A-Z
  • Rumpole
  • Rumpole : The Sleeping Partners & Other Stories
  • Rumpole : The Gentle Art of Blackmail & Other Stories
  • The last enemy

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1976-07-19

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
32,558
Total plays
135,397

Tags

spoken wordbritishpoetrytheatresherlock

Similar artists

Paul MorleyDervla KirwanTerence StampRick HollandMaureen Lipman

Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 1976) is an English film, television, and theatre actor. His voice has been rather popularly described by Caitlin Moran, in The Times, as being reminiscent of a "jaguar hiding in a cello". Cumberbatch's credits date back to 2001, and some of his better-known work includes roles as Stephen Hawking in the BBC drama Hawking (2004); William Pitt in the inspirational historical film Amazing Grace (2006); <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Benedict+Cumberbatch">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Assessing Measurement Invariance in Cross‐National Consumer Research

    · 1998 · cited 3,815x

  2. GENCODE reference annotation for the human and mouse genomes

    · 2018 · cited 3,059x

  3. The complete sequence of a human genome

    · 2022 · cited 2,953x

  4. Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species

    · 2021 · cited 2,926x

  5. Mechanisms of mindfulness

    · 2005 · cited 2,879x

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Quotes

  • “If I’m playing someone who’s smart, suddenly every character I’ve played is smart. If I’m playing a bad guy, every character is a bad guy. I suppose it’s that thing where people want to see a through-line to understand you. I mean, you know, I have played pretty ordinary people too.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 1976) 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, he was appointed a CBE for services to performing arts and charity.

Cumberbatch studied drama at the Victoria University of Manchester and obtained a Master of Arts in classical acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He began acting in Shakespearean theatre productions before making his West End debut in Richard Eyre's revival of Hedda Gabler in 2005. Since then, he has starred in Royal National Theatre productions of After the Dance (2010) and Frankenstein (2011), winning the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for the latter. In 2015, he played the title role in Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre.

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