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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
Sherlock Holmes
for Sherlock Holmes in The Crystal Legion: The Dark Heart
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The movie opens in universe #9876 with Apep attacking The Service trying to take Hermes and Chronos's powers which ends in The Mystery sending Hermes back to the main universe while Apep takes the Bulk and threatens to kill him if Chronos doesn't give him the powers because the powers of the gemstones have to be given not taken. Chronos watches as Bulk is crushed under the weight of the darkness but eventually gives in and lets Apep have his powers. After that The Mystery tries stopping him but is thrown to the ground and covered in darkness killing her. We cut to Apis, The Writer, Thor, and Adam heading to meet with Ava and Samantha but are interrupted by three of Apep's greatest warriors. Eventually Thor is taken and is tortured into giving Apep his powers so now Apep has two of the gemstones' powers and needs 4 more to complete the Gatekeeper's heart. Meanwhile we see Cole, Bulk, and Extraordinary boy go back to the main universe where they meet up with Catman's team. The movie goes on with Apep collecting powers and eventually collects all of them except for Hermes and Neptune. Now all Apep needs is either Neptune of Hermes's powers and so they decide to get the Legion back together and everyone else as well. The movie ends with a huge war but Apep get Hermes to the ground and is about to kill him, but Neptune gives him his powers so that he doesn't kill Hermes. After that the Gatekeeper's heart is complete and Apep corrupts it with darkness giving him ultimate power.
