Requests - Benedict Cumberbatch campaign thread: "He is rare even amongst the acting breed."

sparksღfly · 03-25-2012, 03:10 AM

Welcome to the Benedict Cumberbatch campaign thread

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B E N E D I C T | T I M O T H Y | C A R L T O N | C U M B E R B A T C H

Born 19 July 1976. 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 (2010).

In February 2011, he began playing both Victor Frankenstein and his creature opposite Jonny Lee Miller in Danny Boyle's stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The play had a three-month run 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 reprised the role of Sherlock Holmes in the second series of the BBC's Sherlock, which aired in the United Kingdom in January 2012 and was broadcast on PBS in the United States in May 2012. He also stars as Christopher Tietjens in the BBC/HBO co-production television 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).

He also portrayed the main antagonist, John Harrison, in J. J. Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness, released in May 2013, and played WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate, released in November 2013. He portrayed Alan Turing in the biopic The Imitation Game released in 2014 for which he earned a golden globe nomination. He also played Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre in London from August 2015. He has started shooting "Doctor Strange" the next Marvel Movie. [x]

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S U P O R T E R S

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T H R E A D | I D E A S

General
Pictures
News & Appearances
Icons
Fan Arts
Off Topic

Benedict Appreciation
Benedict's Eyes
Benedict's Hair
Benedict's Acting
Benedict & Sophie
Benedict & Friends

Discussions
Future Projects Discussion
Who would you like to see Benedict work with?
What kind of character would you like to see Benedict play?

Games
Benedict's ABCs
Benedict's anti-ABCs
Benedict Word Association
This or that?
300 Word Story

R A D I O

Mansfield Park
Edmund Bertram

Cabin Pressure
Captain Martin Crieff

Neverwhere
The angel Islington

T V

Fortysomething
Rory Slippery

Hawking
Stephen Hawking

To the Ends of the Earth
Edmund Talbot

The Last Enemy
Stephen Ezard

Marple: Murder is easy
Luke Fitzwilliam

Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes
Benedict & Martin
Benedict & Louise
Benedict & Lana

Parade's End
Christopher Tietjens
Christopher & Sylvia
Christopher & Valentine

M O V I E S

Atonement
Paul Marshall

Starter for 10
Patrick Watts

Third Star
James

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Peter Guillam

War Horse
Major Jamie Stewart

Star Trek: Into Darkness
John Harrison

The Hobbit
Smaug

12 years a slave
William Prince Ford

The Fifth Estate
Julian Assange

August: Osage County
"Little" Charles Aiken

The Imitation Game
Alan Turing

The Penguins of Madagascar
Classified

Black Mass
William Bulger

Doctor Strange (upcoming)
Doctor Strange

T H E A T R E

Frankenstein
The Creature / Victor Frankenstein

Hamlet
Hamlet