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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 Zach Snyder's Woman of Tomorrow
Suggested by user_73398
When Brainiac arrives on Earth Superman must work together with lex Luthor to stop him. Throughout the movie Brainiac's forces come in waves and take down most of Earth's military defenses. We cut to a flashback of the day Kal-El was sent to Earth and we see that after Kal was sent away so was his cousin Kara Zor-El who landed on a remaining chunk of Krypton where she doesn't age and didn't get any farther until about 40 years later when she managed to chart the rotation of a specific asteroid which she gets to hit her pod which sends her all the way to Earth where Superman and Earth's forces including the Martian Manhunter are trying to fight off Brainiac. After finding Kal-El she tells him of what happened but there isn't time for reunions so Kal-El heads to Brainiac's ship. Kara and Martian Manhunter follow and help Kal fight Brainiac. They manage to weaken Brainiac and capture him but after Kal and Martian Manhunter get off the ship the self-destruct system turns on and traps Kara in the ship. Kara knows the explosion could destroy Earth and so she flies the ship galaxies away and faces the explosion which kills her. The movie ends with Superman giving a speech to the United Nations about how to protect the country better. We cut to Lex Luthor who is in the back of the building on the phone with someone that sounds like Deathstroke.
