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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

Doctor Strange
for Doctor Strange in The Mystifying Avengers
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After a falling out between Iron Man and Captain America, the Avengers disband for no reason at all. Kamala Kahn/Ms. Marvel doesn't like this and is trying to keep the team together. But, Cap and Iron Man won't listen to her. However, Justin Anderson/The Beyonder arrives and helps her out with this problem. Justin then brings her to the ruins of an old starship that crashed on Earth a while back and they spruce it up together and tells Kamala that A.I.M. is not to be trusted. They, along with the black-ops group Weapon X, have been capturing people, be they Inhuman, Mutant or normal and experiment on them and based on their performance, they would either stay or disappear. And also, the Justice League is in disarray due to Superman and Batman arguing about the contingency plans Batman had for the League, should they ever go to the side of evil or something like that. And even Young Justice is having problems. So Justin gets May Parker and Maria Hill of S.H.I.E.L.D. to help him and Kamala form a new team of Avengers, one with a few of the surviving members and some new kids, but they got several other allies to help them out, especially Elliot Heywood, a young man who is on a mission to get rid of A.I.M. for good, to do that, Elliot fights them as Ghost Rider. Plus, a familiar face returns, who is it?

