![]() In all the fuss over the BBC’s 2016 series of Histories – Aunty does six hours of epic, difficult Shakespeare – one man’s shadow has loomed over it. ![]() What is your favorite Benedict Cumberbatch role? Scroll through our gallery above and discuss this and more in our movie forum.And so, the most famous actor of his generation finally got to wear “the hollow crown”. That performance earned Cumberbatch an Oscar nomination for Best Actor - he lost to Eddie Redmayne (“The Theory of Everything”), but the way things are going it looks likely that Cumberbatch will have more chances to go for the gold. That role put Cumberbatch on Hollywood’s radar, leading to blockbuster roles in “Star Trek Into Darkness” (as villainous Khan) and the “Hobbit” trilogy (voicing both the Necromancer and the dragon Smaug), as well as a starring role in the 2014 biopic “The Imitation Game” as persecuted scientist and code-breaker Alan Turing. The series returns for its fourth (and possibly final) season in January.ĭish ‘Doctor Strange’ with Hollywood insiders in our notorious forums Starting in 2010, “Sherlock” updates the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories to 21st century London, and in the title role Cumberbatch won an Emmy for Best Movie/Mini Actor in addition to nominations at the Golden Globes and SAG Awards. But it was really the TV series “ Sherlock” that put him on the map. Before he was a household name Cumberbatch played a sinister supporting role in the Oscar nominated film “Atonement” (2007) as a sexual predator whose actions set the story in motion.
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