优质解答
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 1976) is an English actor. His most acclaimed roles include Stephen Hawking in the BBC drama Hawking (2004); William Pitt in the historical film Amazing Grace (2006); protagonist Stephen Ezard in the miniseries thriller The Last Enemy (2008); Paul Marshall in Atonement (2007); Bernard in Small Island (2009); and Sherlock Holmes in the modern BBC adaptation series Sherlock.
In February 2011, he starred in Danny Boyle's stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at the Royal National Theatre. In late 2011, he played Major Stewart in Steven Spielberg's War Horse (2011). He also played Peter Guillam, one of the pivotal roles in Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011).
He also starred as Christopher Tietjens in the BBC/HBO co-produced miniseries, Parade's End, which first aired August 2012. He portrayed Smaug the dragon through voice and motion capture and also provided the motion capture for the Necromancer in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy (2012).
Cumberbatch portrayed the main antagonist, Khan Noonien Singh, in J. J. Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness, released in May 2013, and will play WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate.
------------------------以下是详细介绍~~---------------
Early years
Cumberbatch was born on 19 July 1976 at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in Hammersmith, London.[2] He grew up in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea with his parents Timothy Carlton (birth name Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch) and Wanda Ventham. His great-grandfather, Henry Arnold Cumberbatch CMG, was the Consul General of Queen Victoria in Turkey. His grandfather, Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, was a decorated submarine officer of both World Wars and a prominent figure of London high society.[3] Cumberbatch is also a distant cousin of astronaut Chris Hadfield, through shared British ancestry.[4]
Cumberbatch was educated at Brambletye School in West Sussex,[5] and had an arts scholarship to Harrow School.[6][7] At Harrow, he was introduced to the works of playwright Sir Terrence Rattigan and began acting in school plays.[8] He was involved in numerous Shakespearean works and made his acting debut as Titania Queen of the Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream when he was 13.[9] Cumberbatch's school drama teacher called him "the best schoolboy actor I've ever worked with".[10] He was also part of the rugby team and painted oil canvases.[10][11] Cumberbatch was unexpectedly successful in his GCSE exams, and experienced expectations of further academic success that might lead to attending Oxford or Cambridge University, but he discovered "pot, girls and music" and "got lazy" during his last term at Harrow.[12] After school, he took a gap year to teach English in a Tibetan monastery.[13] He then attended the University of Manchester, where he studied drama.[14] After graduating, Cumberbatch continued his training as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.[1]
Career
Theatre
Since 2001, Cumberbatch has had major roles in a dozen classic plays at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, Almeida Theatre, Royal Court Theatre and the Royal National Theatre. He was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role for his performance as Tesman in Hedda Gabler, a role he performed at the Almeida Theatre on 16 March 2005, as well as at the Duke of York's Theatre when it transferred to the West End on 19 May 2005. Cumberbatch acted in The Children’s Monologues, a theatrical event at London's Old Vic Theatre on 14 November 2010. The show was produced by Dramatic Need.[15]
In February 2011, he began playing, on alternate nights, both Victor Frankenstein and his creature, opposite Jonny Lee Miller, in Danny Boyle's stage production of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at the National Theatre.[16] Frankenstein was broadcast to cinemas as a part of National Theatre Live in March 2011.[17] The Children's Monologues was directed by Danny Boyle as well. In April 2012, Cumberbatch won the Olivier Award for Best Actor (jointly with Jonny Lee Miller) for the acclaimed Frankenstein at the National Theatre, directed by Danny Boyle, with the two lead actors alternating the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature.
Television
Cumberbatch's television roles include two separate guest roles in Heartbeat (2000, 2004), Freddy in Tipping the Velvet (2002), Edward Hand in Cambridge Spies (2003) and Rory in the ITV comedy drama series Fortysomething (2003). He was also featured in Spooks and Silent Witness. In 2004, he starred as Stephen Hawking in Hawking. He was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor and won the Golden Nymph for Television Films – Best Performance by an Actor. (He later provided Hawking's voice in the first episode of the television series Curiosity.) He also appeared in the BBC miniseries Dunkirk as Lieutenant Jimmy Langley.
In 2005, Cumberbatch starred as the protagonist Edmund Talbot in the miniseries To the Ends of the Earth, based on William Golding's trilogy; during filming he was robbed and narrowly escaped being kidnapped.[18] He also made brief appearances in the comedy sketch show Broken News in 2005. Cumberbatch next starred alongside Tom Hardy in the television adaptation of the book Stuart: A Life Backwards, which aired on the BBC in September 2007. In 2008, he starred in the BBC miniseries drama The Last Enemy, for which he was nominated for a Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Film.
Cumberbatch filming Sherlock in Chinatown, London, 2011
In 2009, Cumberbatch starred in Marple: Murder Is Easy as Luke Fitzwilliam. He played Bernard in the TV adaptation of Small Island; the performance earned him a nomination for BAFTA Television Award for Best Supporting Actor.[19] He also starred in Michael Dobbs' play The Turning Point which aired as one of a series of TV plays broadcast live on Sky Arts channel. The two-hander depicted a little-known October 1938 meeting between Soviet spy Guy Burgess, then a young man working for the BBC, and Winston Churchill. Cumberbatch portrayed Burgess; Churchill was played by Matthew Marsh, who had played a supporting role in Hawking.[20] He narrated the 6-part series South Pacific (U.S. title: Wild Pacific), which aired May to June 2009 on BBC 2.
Cumberbatch, a fan of long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who, suggested in a July 2010 interview that he would be interested in appearing as a main or recurring character on the show, run by Sherlock producer Steven Moffat.[21]
In 2010, Cumberbatch portrayed Vincent van Gogh in Van Gogh: Painted with Words. The Telegraph called his performance "[a] treat ... vividly bringing Van Gogh to impassioned, blue-eyed life."[22] In the same year, Cumberbatch began playing Sherlock Holmes in the first series of the BBC television programme Sherlock, to critical acclaim.[23][24] A second three-part series began on New Years Day 2012 in England[25] and was broadcast on PBS in the United States in May 2012.[26] He was nominated for a BAFTA, Emmy and Golden Globe for Best Actor in Miniseries or TV Movie for the part. In 2012, he led the BBC and HBO co-produced miniseries Parade's End with Rebecca Hall. It is an adaptation of the tetralogy of novels of the same name by Ford Madox Ford. Its five episodes are directed by Susanna White and written by Tom Stoppard.[27][28]
Film
In 2006, Cumberbatch played William Pitt the Younger in Amazing Grace. The film is the story of William Wilberforce's intense and lengthy political fight in the late 18th century to eliminate the slave trade in the British Empire. Pitt was Wilberforce's closest friend and staunchest political ally, and became Prime Minister at an early age. The role garnered Cumberbatch a nomination for the London Film Critics Circle British Breakthrough Acting Award. Cumberbatch subsequently appeared in supporting roles in Atonement (2007) and The Other Boleyn Girl (2008). In 2009, he appeared in the Darwin biopic Creation as Darwin's friend Joseph Hooker. In 2010, he appeared in The Whistleblower.
He played Peter Guillam, George Smiley's right-hand man, in the 2011 adaptation of the John le Carré novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The film was directed by Tomas Alfredson and starred Gary Oldman and Colin Firth.[29] Cumberbatch also portrayed Major Stewart in Steven Spielberg's War Horse (2011). He provided the voice and motion-capture for both Smaug the Dragon and the Necromancer in The Hobbit (2012).[30] Cumberbatch also played Khan Noonien Singh in the J. J. Abrams-directed Star Trek Into Darkness (2013).[31][32]
Radio
In May 2009, BBC Radio 4 broadcast an adaptation of John Mortimer's novel Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders. Cumberbatch played the "young Rumpole", and Timothy West took the part of the "old Rumpole"; Cumberbatch would go on to play the younger Rumpole in BBC Radio 4 adaptations of "Rumpole and the Family Pride" (2010), "Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle" (2010), "Rumpole and the Man of God" (2012), "Rumpole and the Explosive Evidence" (2012), "Rumpole and the Gentle Art of Blackmail" (2010) and "Rumpole and the Expert Witness" (2012). Cumberbatch plays Captain Martin Crieff in the BBC's Cabin Pressure. He also played The Angel Islington in the 2013 BBC radio adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere.
Other work
Cumberbatch has also read for several audiobooks, including The Tempest, The Making of Music, Death in a White Tie, Artists in Crime, and Sherlock Holmes: The Rediscovered Railway Mysteries and Other Stories. He does the voice overs of several commercials, major names like Jaguar, Sony, Pimms, and Google+ doing the Seven Ages of Man monologue. For the 2012 London Olympics, he did a short film on the history of London for the BBC coverage to kick off the opening ceremony.[33] He made appearances for two Cheltenham Festivals, in July 2012 for Music wherein he read WWI poetry and prose accompanied by piano pieces[34] and in October 2012 for Literature wherein he discussed Sherlock and Parade's End at The Centaur.[35]
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 1976) is an English actor. His most acclaimed roles include Stephen Hawking in the BBC drama Hawking (2004); William Pitt in the historical film Amazing Grace (2006); protagonist Stephen Ezard in the miniseries thriller The Last Enemy (2008); Paul Marshall in Atonement (2007); Bernard in Small Island (2009); and Sherlock Holmes in the modern BBC adaptation series Sherlock.
In February 2011, he starred in Danny Boyle's stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at the Royal National Theatre. In late 2011, he played Major Stewart in Steven Spielberg's War Horse (2011). He also played Peter Guillam, one of the pivotal roles in Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011).
He also starred as Christopher Tietjens in the BBC/HBO co-produced miniseries, Parade's End, which first aired August 2012. He portrayed Smaug the dragon through voice and motion capture and also provided the motion capture for the Necromancer in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy (2012).
Cumberbatch portrayed the main antagonist, Khan Noonien Singh, in J. J. Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness, released in May 2013, and will play WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate.
------------------------以下是详细介绍~~---------------
Early years
Cumberbatch was born on 19 July 1976 at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in Hammersmith, London.[2] He grew up in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea with his parents Timothy Carlton (birth name Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch) and Wanda Ventham. His great-grandfather, Henry Arnold Cumberbatch CMG, was the Consul General of Queen Victoria in Turkey. His grandfather, Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, was a decorated submarine officer of both World Wars and a prominent figure of London high society.[3] Cumberbatch is also a distant cousin of astronaut Chris Hadfield, through shared British ancestry.[4]
Cumberbatch was educated at Brambletye School in West Sussex,[5] and had an arts scholarship to Harrow School.[6][7] At Harrow, he was introduced to the works of playwright Sir Terrence Rattigan and began acting in school plays.[8] He was involved in numerous Shakespearean works and made his acting debut as Titania Queen of the Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream when he was 13.[9] Cumberbatch's school drama teacher called him "the best schoolboy actor I've ever worked with".[10] He was also part of the rugby team and painted oil canvases.[10][11] Cumberbatch was unexpectedly successful in his GCSE exams, and experienced expectations of further academic success that might lead to attending Oxford or Cambridge University, but he discovered "pot, girls and music" and "got lazy" during his last term at Harrow.[12] After school, he took a gap year to teach English in a Tibetan monastery.[13] He then attended the University of Manchester, where he studied drama.[14] After graduating, Cumberbatch continued his training as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.[1]
Career
Theatre
Since 2001, Cumberbatch has had major roles in a dozen classic plays at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, Almeida Theatre, Royal Court Theatre and the Royal National Theatre. He was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role for his performance as Tesman in Hedda Gabler, a role he performed at the Almeida Theatre on 16 March 2005, as well as at the Duke of York's Theatre when it transferred to the West End on 19 May 2005. Cumberbatch acted in The Children’s Monologues, a theatrical event at London's Old Vic Theatre on 14 November 2010. The show was produced by Dramatic Need.[15]
In February 2011, he began playing, on alternate nights, both Victor Frankenstein and his creature, opposite Jonny Lee Miller, in Danny Boyle's stage production of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at the National Theatre.[16] Frankenstein was broadcast to cinemas as a part of National Theatre Live in March 2011.[17] The Children's Monologues was directed by Danny Boyle as well. In April 2012, Cumberbatch won the Olivier Award for Best Actor (jointly with Jonny Lee Miller) for the acclaimed Frankenstein at the National Theatre, directed by Danny Boyle, with the two lead actors alternating the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature.
Television
Cumberbatch's television roles include two separate guest roles in Heartbeat (2000, 2004), Freddy in Tipping the Velvet (2002), Edward Hand in Cambridge Spies (2003) and Rory in the ITV comedy drama series Fortysomething (2003). He was also featured in Spooks and Silent Witness. In 2004, he starred as Stephen Hawking in Hawking. He was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor and won the Golden Nymph for Television Films – Best Performance by an Actor. (He later provided Hawking's voice in the first episode of the television series Curiosity.) He also appeared in the BBC miniseries Dunkirk as Lieutenant Jimmy Langley.
In 2005, Cumberbatch starred as the protagonist Edmund Talbot in the miniseries To the Ends of the Earth, based on William Golding's trilogy; during filming he was robbed and narrowly escaped being kidnapped.[18] He also made brief appearances in the comedy sketch show Broken News in 2005. Cumberbatch next starred alongside Tom Hardy in the television adaptation of the book Stuart: A Life Backwards, which aired on the BBC in September 2007. In 2008, he starred in the BBC miniseries drama The Last Enemy, for which he was nominated for a Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Film.
Cumberbatch filming Sherlock in Chinatown, London, 2011
In 2009, Cumberbatch starred in Marple: Murder Is Easy as Luke Fitzwilliam. He played Bernard in the TV adaptation of Small Island; the performance earned him a nomination for BAFTA Television Award for Best Supporting Actor.[19] He also starred in Michael Dobbs' play The Turning Point which aired as one of a series of TV plays broadcast live on Sky Arts channel. The two-hander depicted a little-known October 1938 meeting between Soviet spy Guy Burgess, then a young man working for the BBC, and Winston Churchill. Cumberbatch portrayed Burgess; Churchill was played by Matthew Marsh, who had played a supporting role in Hawking.[20] He narrated the 6-part series South Pacific (U.S. title: Wild Pacific), which aired May to June 2009 on BBC 2.
Cumberbatch, a fan of long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who, suggested in a July 2010 interview that he would be interested in appearing as a main or recurring character on the show, run by Sherlock producer Steven Moffat.[21]
In 2010, Cumberbatch portrayed Vincent van Gogh in Van Gogh: Painted with Words. The Telegraph called his performance "[a] treat ... vividly bringing Van Gogh to impassioned, blue-eyed life."[22] In the same year, Cumberbatch began playing Sherlock Holmes in the first series of the BBC television programme Sherlock, to critical acclaim.[23][24] A second three-part series began on New Years Day 2012 in England[25] and was broadcast on PBS in the United States in May 2012.[26] He was nominated for a BAFTA, Emmy and Golden Globe for Best Actor in Miniseries or TV Movie for the part. In 2012, he led the BBC and HBO co-produced miniseries Parade's End with Rebecca Hall. It is an adaptation of the tetralogy of novels of the same name by Ford Madox Ford. Its five episodes are directed by Susanna White and written by Tom Stoppard.[27][28]
Film
In 2006, Cumberbatch played William Pitt the Younger in Amazing Grace. The film is the story of William Wilberforce's intense and lengthy political fight in the late 18th century to eliminate the slave trade in the British Empire. Pitt was Wilberforce's closest friend and staunchest political ally, and became Prime Minister at an early age. The role garnered Cumberbatch a nomination for the London Film Critics Circle British Breakthrough Acting Award. Cumberbatch subsequently appeared in supporting roles in Atonement (2007) and The Other Boleyn Girl (2008). In 2009, he appeared in the Darwin biopic Creation as Darwin's friend Joseph Hooker. In 2010, he appeared in The Whistleblower.
He played Peter Guillam, George Smiley's right-hand man, in the 2011 adaptation of the John le Carré novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The film was directed by Tomas Alfredson and starred Gary Oldman and Colin Firth.[29] Cumberbatch also portrayed Major Stewart in Steven Spielberg's War Horse (2011). He provided the voice and motion-capture for both Smaug the Dragon and the Necromancer in The Hobbit (2012).[30] Cumberbatch also played Khan Noonien Singh in the J. J. Abrams-directed Star Trek Into Darkness (2013).[31][32]
Radio
In May 2009, BBC Radio 4 broadcast an adaptation of John Mortimer's novel Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders. Cumberbatch played the "young Rumpole", and Timothy West took the part of the "old Rumpole"; Cumberbatch would go on to play the younger Rumpole in BBC Radio 4 adaptations of "Rumpole and the Family Pride" (2010), "Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle" (2010), "Rumpole and the Man of God" (2012), "Rumpole and the Explosive Evidence" (2012), "Rumpole and the Gentle Art of Blackmail" (2010) and "Rumpole and the Expert Witness" (2012). Cumberbatch plays Captain Martin Crieff in the BBC's Cabin Pressure. He also played The Angel Islington in the 2013 BBC radio adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere.
Other work
Cumberbatch has also read for several audiobooks, including The Tempest, The Making of Music, Death in a White Tie, Artists in Crime, and Sherlock Holmes: The Rediscovered Railway Mysteries and Other Stories. He does the voice overs of several commercials, major names like Jaguar, Sony, Pimms, and Google+ doing the Seven Ages of Man monologue. For the 2012 London Olympics, he did a short film on the history of London for the BBC coverage to kick off the opening ceremony.[33] He made appearances for two Cheltenham Festivals, in July 2012 for Music wherein he read WWI poetry and prose accompanied by piano pieces[34] and in October 2012 for Literature wherein he discussed Sherlock and Parade's End at The Centaur.[35]