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Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born July 19, 1976) is an British and American actor. Known for his roles on the screen and stage, he has received various accolades throughout his career, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a British Academy Television Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award. Cumberbatch won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for Frankenstein and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for Sherlock. His performances in the dramas The Imitation Game (2014) and The Power of the Dog (2021) earned him nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award, all for Best Actor in a Leading Role. For playing the title role in five-part drama miniseries Patrick Melrose, he won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. In 2014 Time magazine included him in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2015 he was appointed a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2015 Birthday Honours for services to the performing arts and to charity. A graduate of the Victoria University of Manchester, Cumberbatch continued his training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, obtaining a Master of Arts in Classical Acting. He first performed at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park in Shakespearean productions and made his West End debut in Richard Eyre's revival of Hedda Gabler in 2005. Since then, he has starred in the Royal National Theatre productions After the Dance (2010) and Frankenstein (2011). In 2015, he played the title role in Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre. Cumberbatch's television work includes his performance as Stephen Hawking in the television film Hawking in 2004. He gained worldwide recognition for his performance as Sherlock Holmes in the BBC series Sherlock from 2010 to 2017. He has also headlined Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Parade's End (2012), The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses (2016), Patrick Melrose (2018), and Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019). In films, Cumberbatch has starred in Amazing Grace (2006) as William Pitt the Younger, Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) as Khan, 12 Years a Slave (2013) as William Prince Ford, The Fifth Estate (2013) as Julian Assange, and The Imitation Game (2014) as Alan Turing. He also acted in the historical dramas The Current War (2017), 1917 (2019) and The Courier (2020), and received critical acclaim for his performance in Jane Campion's Western drama The Power of the Dog (2021). From 2012 to 2014, through voice and motion capture, he played the characters of Smaug and Sauron in The Hobbit film series. Cumberbatch portrays Dr. Stephen Strange in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films, beginning with Doctor Strange (2016), and also voiced the character in the animated series What If...? (2021).

Benedict Cumberbatch

The Starlight Dragon
for The Starlight Dragon in Starlight Dragon
Suggested by fridgerat

Richard Nito's mother died of cancer five months ago. Richard now has high amounts of grief so when he remembers a story she told him as a child that lost spirits flew into space and where guarded by the Starlight Dragon this influences his life to find his mother he eventually becomes a atstonaut and is going into space when he gets to the galaxy he hears radio messages of screaming and death at the station. His crew is dead but now at least he can do this with no bother. On his quest he discovers a woman in the ship who fell asleep when fixing something and now is stuck with him she introduces herself as Tanya Bliss, a mechanic. Soon they find a land called Prism Palace a place known filled with little rainbow robots and for guarding the Starlight Dragon, but they tell him he has escaped and went in the direction of Trivlie, when they get there they soon find out that it is the land of demons. There they meet a alien named Tormach Admees who loves to play tricks on people and when at a state called Centre he can locate the Starlight Dragon, he guides them to where the Starlight Dragon was last but it's not there and instead is a small blue and white wolf cub with a yellow star on the end of his long tail, they take him to keep him safe and Richard names him Atlas. They soon return to the ship with Atlas but Tormach insists to come with them as he wants to be remembered for something great. They then venture off to where Tormach senses it to be (Unfinished)