Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 1976) is an English film, television, theatre and voice actor.
His most acclaimed roles include Stephen Hawking in the BBC drama Hawking (2004), Victor Frankenstein and his creature in Danny Boyle's stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (2011) at the Royal National Theatre, Peter Guillam in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Sherlock Holmes in the BBC/PBS series Sherlock, Christopher Tietjens in the BBC/HBO miniseries Parade's End (2013), Khan Noonien Singh in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), Smaug the dragon and the Necromancer through voice and motion capture in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy and Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate (2013).