Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch portrayed Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange in Doctor Strange, Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Avengers: Doomsday,[1] and will reprise the role in Avengers: Secret Wars.[2]
He also portrayed Dormammu in Doctor Strange.[3]
He portrayed Stephen Strange/Defender Strange, Stephen Strange/Supreme Strange and Stephen Strange/Sinister Strange in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
He voiced Stephen Strange/Strange Supreme in the What If...? episodes What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?, What If... Ultron Won?, What If... The Watcher Broke His Oath?, What If... Kahhori Reshaped the World?, What If... The Avengers Assembled in 1602? and What If... Strange Supreme Intervened? and an alternate Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange in the What If...? episode What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?
He also voiced an alternate Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange in Avengers: Damage Control.
Archive audio of Benedict Cumberbatch from Doctor Strange was used in the Loki episode For All Time. Always.
Archive audio of Benedict Cumberbatch from the What If...? episode What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands? was used in the What If...? episode What If... Strange Supreme Intervened?
He was interviewed for the Assembled episode The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Awards[]
- He was nominated for an Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actor for his work on Doctor Strange.
- He was nominated for a Critics' Choice Award for Best Actor in An Action Movie for his work on Doctor Strange.
- He was nominated for an Empire Award for Best Actor for his work on Doctor Strange.
- He was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actor for his work on Doctor Strange.
Trivia[]
- Benedict Cumberbatch is the second actor to portray two major characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the first being Paul Bettany.
- Benedict Cumberbatch is best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes in the television series Sherlock, which is one of the items included on Captain America's To-Do List in the UK release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
- Cumberbatch spent his gap year teaching English at a Tibetan monastery in Darjeeling, India, which he has acknowledged is similar to Strange's Himalayan origin story.[4]
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years A Slave.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Kobna Holdbrook-Smith in a 12-week run of Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Chris Hemsworth in Star Trek Into Darkness and worked again with him in James and the Giant Peach with Taika and Friends.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Karl Urban, Zoe Saldaña and Matthew Wood in Star Trek Into Darkness.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Cate Blanchett in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, and worked again with her in Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle and James and the Giant Peach with Taika and Friends.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Tom Hiddleston in War Horse.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Sam Neill in To the Ends of the Earth.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Shane Rangi and Terry Notary in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Scarlett Johansson in The Other Boleyn Girl, and worked again with her in The Phoenician Scheme.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Tom Holland in The Current War.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Paul Bettany in Creation.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Anthony Mackie in The Fifth Estate.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Chadwick Boseman in 9 Kisses.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Natalie Portman and Andrew Garfield in The Other Boleyn Girl.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Ken Jeong in Penguins of Madagascar.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Evangeline Lilly in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Toby Jones in Amazing Grace, Creation, Sherlock, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and The Electrical Life of Louis Wain.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Tom Hardy in Stuart: A Life Backwards and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Adam Hugill in 1917.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Laura Breslin in The Courier.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with David Harbour in Black Mass.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Ian McKellen in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.
- Benedict Cumberbatch previously worked with Ryan Reynolds in James and the Giant Peach with Taika and Friends.
- Benedict Cumberbatch worked again with Peter Dinklage, Brie Larson, and Paul Rudd in Between Two Ferns: The Movie.
- Benedict Cumberbatch worked again with Zachary Levi in The Mauritanian.
- Benedict Cumberbatch worked again with Taika Waititi in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain and James and the Giant Peach with Taika and Friends.
- Benedict Cumberbatch worked again with Karen Gillan in The Bubble.
- Benedict Chumberbatch worked again with Tessa Thompson in Between Two Ferns: The Movie and James and the Giant Peach with Taika and Friends.
- Benedict Cumberbatch worked again with Tom Vaughan-Lawlor in The Book of Clarence.
- Benedict Cumberbatch worked again with Benicio del Toro, Jeffrey Wright and Willem Dafoe in The Phoenician Scheme.
- Benedict Cumberbatch will work again with Anthony Hopkins in Wife & Dog.
- Benedict Cumberbatch portrayed Doctor Strange in a sketch on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, in which Jimmy Kimmel hires Strange to entertain children at a birthday party.[5]
- Benedict Cumberbatch shares his birthday with Ryan Dorsey.
- In Unbelievable Gwenpool Vol 1 #3, Doctor Strange and Gwenpool look at a theater where Doctor Strange is showing in the Multiverse. Doctor Strange is pleased with the choice of Benedict Cumberbatch to portray him.
- Benedict Cumberbatch shares his birthday with Chris Sullivan.
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References[]
- ↑ Benedict Cumberbatch says he was wrong about Doctor Strange not appearing in the next 'Avengers' movie: 'Don't ever believe anything I say'
- ↑ Benedict Cumberbatch Tells All on Doctor Strange’s Future, His New Sundance Film and Not Being Your Typical Movie Star: ‘I’m Not Brad, I’m Not Leo’
- ↑ DOCTOR STRANGE Director Addresses Final Battle
- ↑ Wall Street Journal interview
- ↑ Jimmy Kimmel Hires Dr. Strange for a Birthday Party
