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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
Pennywise the Dancing Clown
for Pennywise the Dancing Clown in Stephen King’s IT
Suggested by secretlyaciaunicorn
During a rainstorm, Georgie Denbrough sails a paper boat, but it falls into a drain. He meets Pennywise the Clown and tries to get his boat, but It rips his arm off and he dies.Next June, an overweight boy named Ben Hanscom is bullied by Henry Bowers, escaping to a marsh called The Barrens. Ben befriends an asthmatic, Eddie Kaspbrak, and Bill, Georgie's brother who has a stutter. They later befriend Richie Tozier, Stan Uris, and Beverly Marsh, and call themselves The Losers Club. They each see It in different forms. An unhinged Henry begins bullying his African-American neighbor Mike Hanlon and chases him to the Barrens, where he joins the Losers in fighting Henry. Mike tells them his encounter with It as a giant bird. They find It's origins as an entity that eats children before entering a 27-year sleep.Bev sees Patrick Hockstetter, a bully, killed by It in the form of leeches. Eddie breaks his arm, and Ben makes two silver slugs to kill It. It is from another reality called the Macroverse.They go to a house on Neibolt Street where they saw It, and hurt It as werewolf. It gives Henry a knife, and makes him make his friends Victor Criss and Belch Huggins help him kill the Losers. Vic and Belch are killed by It as Frankenstein's monster.Bill performs the Ritual of Chüd, and he meets Maturin, an ancient turtle that created the universe.Not knowing if they killed It or not, they swear a blood oath that if It returns, so will they.
