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 (2010–12).

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.

本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇（Benedict Cumberbatch），英國著名演員，1976年7月19日出生于英國倫敦，畢業(yè)于哈羅公學和曼徹斯特大學。2001年左右開始演藝生涯，期間參演過多部舞臺劇，并擔任了多部作品的配音。2010年，康伯巴奇在BBC迷你劇《神探夏洛克》（《新福爾摩斯》）中完美出演夏洛克·福爾摩斯（Sherlock）一角，獲得巨大成功，人氣飆升，并獲得當年多項大獎，劇中服裝造型風靡英國。隨后，康伯巴奇受邀參演多部電影，如《戰(zhàn)馬》、《鍋匠》等，并出席金球獎及奧斯卡頒獎典禮，并接受《GQ》、《名利場》等多家雜志專訪，是前途無限的新星。