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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
Dr. Stephen Strange
for Dr. Stephen Strange in The Spectacular Spider-Man: Peter Parker (2029)
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Conclusion to Tom Holland's second trilogy in the MCU. Film opens with a battle like the past two, this time he fights the Eddie Brock Venom. Ned, now a sorcerer and student of Doctor Strange, goes beyond his teachings, learning of the spell that made him forget about Peter, among many other dark secrets. He fixes MJ's memory before Strange comes looking for him. Ned turns against Strange and becomes the villain known as Hob Goblin. Meanwhile, Kingpin works on creating the collider that will bring Vanessa back from a different universe. This is how the spider travels to the MCU and bites Miles who becomes the second Spider-Man who trains under Peter in the second half of the film. However, the collider explodes, causing Kingpin to lose it and wipe out his team of scientists. Kingpin also murders Black Cat following the explosion. That's when he meets Ned who tells him there are other ways to bring someone from the multiverse. Spider-Man must stop Ned before he causes another Multiverse problem. Ned sacrifices himself for Peter and MJ at the end of the film and is killed along with Kingpin. Peter decides to pass the mantle to Miles and live his life with MJ. He doesn't completely retire but turns to other ways of helping. After meeting a varient of his father from the multiverse, Theo changes his last name to Osborn.
