Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch (born 1976) is an English film, television, theatre and voice actor.

He is known for his roles as Stephen Hawking in Hawking (2004), Paul Marshall in Atonement (2007), Victor Frankenstein and his creature in Danny Boyle's stage adaptation of Frankenstein (2011), Major Jamie Stewart in War Horse (2011), Peter Guillam in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Christopher Tietjens in the miniseries Parade's End (2013), Khan Noonien Singh in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), William Ford in 12 Years a Slave (2013), Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate (2013) and Smaug the dragon through vocal performance and motion capture in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy. Since 2010, he portrays Sherlock Holmes in the television series Sherlock.