Age: 49
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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
Brainiac
for Brainiac in Superman: Hero of Yesterday
Suggested by theultrafancast
Clark Kent, Superman (Jon Hamm). The savior of the people of earth left the planet after his final battle with Zod. Doing something he swore never to do. Kill. Killing Zod and endings life long feud, but it changed Clark. He decided after that earth didn’t need him as a hero anymore. Leaving his wife Lois Kent (Winona Ryder) and his young son Conner (Jack Dylan Grazer) and the entire planet without a “Superman”. Years later, when president Lex Luthor (James Spader) finds the scraps from Krypton, he finds a piece of Braniac. The president begins to test it in his labs until he fuses the pieces to himself. Becoming the new and improved Lex Luthor and Brainiac. It also wakens Clark. Telling him that it’s time to come back to earth. When he comes back he sees how much the world has changed. But not everything. People still know who Superman is. He goes to the home of Lois and Conner. They rush to him, reuniting as a family. But that’s when Clark finds out about Luthor he rushes off in a new suit and fights his old enemies. Clark begins to lose the fight due to age until his son Conner comes to help him with his new powers. Superman and Superboy defeat Luthor/Brainiac and send him away. Meanwhile Clark makes his return to life as being a reporter and being a husband and a father.
