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Benedict Cumberbatch

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by Justin Lewis


  Written by: Steve Thompson

  Cast included: Martin Freeman (Dr John Watson), Una Stubbs (Mrs Hudson), Rupert Graves (Inspector Lestrade), Mark Gatiss (Mycroft Holmes), Andrew Scott (Jim Moriarty), Louise Brealey (Molly Hooper), Katherine Parkinson (Kitty Riley), Vinette Robinson (Sgt Sally Donovan), Tanya Moodie (Ella), Jonathan Aris (Anderson).

  2010 – present:

  SHERLOCK (Role: Sherlock Holmes)

  …

  Series 3: January 2014

  3.1: The Empty Hearse (1 January 2014; Wednesday, 2030–2200)

  Directed by: Jeremy Lovering

  Written by: Mark Gatiss

  Cast included: Martin Freeman (Dr John Watson), Una Stubbs (Mrs Hudson), Rupert Graves (DI Lestrade), Mark Gatiss (Mycroft Holmes), Amanda Abbington (Mary Morstan), Louise Brealey (Molly Hooper), David Fynn (Howard Shilcott)

  3.2: The Sign of Three (5 January 2014; Sunday, 2100-2225)

  Directed by: Colm McCarthy

  Written by: Steve Thompson

  Cast included: Martin Freeman (Dr John Watson), Una Stubbs (Mrs Hudson), Rupert Graves (DI Lestrade), Mark Gatiss (Mycroft Holmes), Amanda Abbington (Mary Morstan), Vinette Robinson (Sgt Sally Donovan), Lara Pulver (Irene Adler), Louise Brealey (Molly Hooper), Alastair Petrie (James Sholto)

  3.3: His Last Vow (12 January 2014; Sunday, 2100-2230)

  Directed by: Nick Hurran

  Written by: Steven Moffat

  Cast includes: Martin Freeman (Dr John Watson), Una Stubbs (Mrs Hudson), Rupert Graves (DI Lestrade), Mark Gatiss (Mycroft Holmes), Amanda Abbington (Mary Morstan), Louise Brealey (Molly Hooper), Lars Mikkelsen (Charles Augustus Magnussen), Lindsay Duncan (Lady Smallwood)

  2010: 14 October

  HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU (Guest Host)

  BBC1 (Thursday, 2100–2130)

  Director: Paul Wheeler

  Team captains: Ian Hislop, Paul Merton

  Guests: Victoria Coren, Jon Richardson

  2011: 28 July

  THE RATTIGAN ENIGMA: BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH ON TERENCE RATTIGAN (Presenter/Narrator)

  BBC4 (Thursday, 2100–2200)

  Produced and directed by: Sally Thomson

  Executive producer: Michael Poole

  Contributors: Adrian Brown, Michael Darlow, Terence Davies, Jean Dorney, David Hare, Benedict Nightingale, Thea Sharrock.

  2011: 7 August (USA)

  CURIOSITY: DID GOD CREATE THE UNIVERSE? (Narrator)

  Discovery Channel (USA) (Sunday, 2000–2100 EST)

  Executive producers: Simon Andreae, Alan Eyres, John Smithson, Susan Winslow, Ben Bowie

  Presented by: Stephen Hawking.

  2012: 17 March

  ARENA: THE DREAMS OF WILLIAM GOLDING (Reader)

  BBC2 (Saturday, 2130–2300)

  Directed by: Adam Low

  Contributors included: John Carey, Stephen King, Nigel Williams.

  2012: 13–27 September

  STEPHEN HAWKING’S GRAND DESIGN (Narrator)

  Discovery UK (Thursdays, 2000–2100)

  1: The Meaning of Life

  2: The Key to the Cosmos

  3: Did God Create the Universe?

  Directed by: Dan Clifton, Matthew Huntley

  With: Stephen Hawking

  2012: 24 August–21 September

  PARADE’S END (Role: Christopher Tietjens)

  BBC2 (Fridays, 2100–2230)

  Directed by: Susanna White

  Written by: Tom Stoppard, based on the novels of Ford Madox Ford

  Series cast included: Rebecca Hall (Sylvia Tietjens), Roger Allam (General Campion), Adelaide Clemens (Valentine Wannop), Rupert Everett (Mark Tietjens), Miranda Richardson (Mrs Wannop), Sasha Waddell (Glorvina), Janet McTeer (Mrs Satterthwaite), Anne-Marie Duff (Edith Duchemin), Patrick Kennedy (McKechnie), Rufus Sewell (Reverend Duchemin), Stephen Graham (Vincent MacMaster).

  2012: 31 October

  FRANKENSTEIN: A MODERN MYTH (Narrator/Contributor)

  Channel 4 (Monday, 2305–0010)

  Directed by: Adam Low

  Readers: David Bradley, Daniel Ings, Sarah Mowat

  Contributors: Dr Gwen Adshead, Philip Ball, Danny Boyle, Nick Dear, Daisy Hay, Stephen Hebron, Philip Hoare, Jonny Lee Miller, Miranda Seymour, Helen Wallace, John Waters.

  2012: 8–15 November

  WWI’S TUNNELS OF DEATH (Narrator)

  Channel 5 (Thursdays, 2000–2100)

  1: The Killing Fields (8 November 2012)

  2: Earthquaking the Ridge (15 November 2012)

  Directed by: John Hayes-Fisher

  Experts: Alexandra Churchill, Peter Doyle, Paul Reed.

  2013: 10 February (USA)

  THE SIMPSONS (Role: Voice of Alan Rickman/Prime Minister)

  Fox (USA) (Sunday, 2000–2030)

  (Season 24, Episode 12: ‘Love is a Many Splintered Thing’)

  Directed by: Michael Polcino

  Voice cast included: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Harry Shearer.

  Guest voices included: Zooey Deschanel (Mary Spuckeler), Max Weinberg, Robert A. Caro.

  2013: 2 November

  LIVE FROM THE NATIONAL THEATRE: 50 YEARS ON STAGE (Role: Rosencrantz)

  BBC2 (Saturday, 2100–2315)

  Directed by: Nicholas Hytner

  Participants included: James Corden, Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, Derek Jacobi, Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Roger Allam, Simon Russell Beale, Frances de la Tour, Christopher Eccleston, Alex Jennings, Rory Kinnear, Adrian Lester, Anna Maxwell Martin, Andrew Scott, Penelope Wilton.

  FILM

  2002

  HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS (Role: The Man)

  Written and directed by: Paige Cameron

  Cast included: Greg Wise (The American), Emma Griffiths Main (The Girl), Todd Boyce (The Husband), Paige Cameron (The Woman).

  2003

  TO KILL A KING (Role: Royalist)

  Directed by: Mike Barker

  Cast included: Tim Roth (Oliver Cromwell), Dougray Scott (Sir Thomas Fairfax), Olivia Williams (Lady Anne Fairfax), James Bolam (Denzil Holles), Corin Redgrave (Lord de Vere), Finbar Lynch (Cousin Henry), Julian Rhind-Tutt (James), Adrian Scarborough (Sergeant Joyce), Jeremy Swift (Earl of Whitby), Rupert Everett (King Charles I).

  2006

  AMAZING GRACE (Role: William Pitt the Younger)

  Directed by: Michael Apted

  Cast included: Ioan Gruffudd (William Wilberforce), Albert Finney (John Newton), Michael Gambon (Charles Fox), Youssou N’Dour (Oloudah Equiano), Bill Paterson (Lord Dundas), Toby Jones (Duke of Clarence), Ciaran Hinds (Lord Tarleton), Romola Garai (Barbara Spooner), Rufus Sewell (Thomas Clarkson).

  2006

  STARTER FOR 10 (Role: Patrick Watts)

  Directed by: Tom Vaughan

  Cast included: James McAvoy (Brian Jackson), Alice Eve (Alice Harbinson), Rebecca Hall (Rebecca Epstein), Mark Gatiss (Bamber Gascoigne), Charles Dance (Michael Harbinson), Lindsay Duncan (Rose Harbinson), Dominic Cooper (Spencer), James Gaddas (Martin Jackson), Catherine Tate (Julie Jackson), James Corden (Tone).

  2007

  INSEPARABLE (Roles: Joe/Charlie)

  Directed by: Nick White

  Cast included: Natalie Press (Jean), Dylan Byrne (Son), Bijan Daneshmand (Doctor), J.D. Kelleher, Richard Shanks (Heavies).

  2007

  ATONEMENT (Role: Paul Marshall)

  Directed by: Joe Wright

  Cast included: James McAvoy (Robbie Turner), Keira Knightley (Cecilia Tallis), Harriet Walter (Cecilia Tallis), Brenda Blethyn (Grace Turner).

  2008

  THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL (Role: William Carey)

  Directed by: Justin Chadwick

  Cast included: Mark Rylance (Sir Thomas Boleyn), Kristin Scott Thomas (Lady Elizabeth Howard), Jim Sturgess (George Boleyn), Natalie Portman (Anne Boleyn), Scarlett Johansson (Mary Boleyn), Eric Bana (Henry Tudor).

  2009

  BURLESQUE FAIRYTALES (Role: Henry Clark)

  Written and directed by: Susan Luciani

  Cast
included: Anna Andresen (The Mermaid), Stephen Campbell Moore (Peter Blythe-Smith), Jim Carter (The Compère), Lindsay Duncan (Ice Queen), Barbara Flynn (Mrs Argyle), Sophie Hunter (Annabel Blythe-Smith), Anna Lanyon (Queen of Hearts), Kevin Howarth (Jimmy Harrison).

  2009

  CREATION (Role: Joseph Hooker)

  Directed by: Jon Amiel

  Cast included: Paul Bettany (Charles Darwin), Martha West (Annie Darwin), Jennifer Connelly (Emma Darwin), Jeremy Northam (Reverend Innes), Toby Jones (Thomas Huxley).

  2010

  THE WHISTLEBLOWER (Role: Nick Kaufman)

  Directed by: Larysa Kondracki

  Cast included: Rachel Weisz (Kathryn Bolkovac), Vanessa Redgrave (Madeleine Rees), Monica Bellucci (Laura Leviani).

  2010

  FOUR LIONS (Role: Negotiator)

  Directed by: Chris Morris

  Cast included: Kayvan Novak (Waj), Nigel Lindsay (Barry), Riz Ahmed (Omar), Adeel Akhtar (Faisal), Preeya Kalidas (Sofia), William El-Gardi (Khalid), Mohammad Aqil (Mahmood), Craig Parkinson (Matt), Arsher Ali (Hassan), Alex Macqueen (Malcolm Storge MP), Julia Davis (Alice), Wasim Zakir (Ahmed).

  2010

  THIRD STAR (Role: James)

  92 mins

  Directed by: Hattie Dalton

  Cast included: Tom Burke (Davy), J.J. Feild (Miles), Adam Robertson (Bill).

  2011

  TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (Role: Peter Guillam)

  Directed by: Tomas Alfredson

  Cast included: Mark Strong (Jim Prideaux), John Hurt (Control), Colin Firth (Bill Haydon), Gary Oldman (George Smiley), Mark Strong (Jim Prideaux), Tom Hardy (Ricki Tarr), Kathy Burke (Connie Sachs), Toby Jones (Percy Alleline), Ciaran Hinds (Roy Bland), David Dencik (Toby Esterhase), Svetlana Khodchenkova (Irina), Stephen Graham (Jerry Westerby), Simon McBurney (Oliver Lacon).

  2011

  WAR HORSE (Role: Maj Jamie Stewart)

  Directed by: Steven Spielberg

  Cast included: Jeremy Irvine (Albert Narracott), Emily Watson (Rose Narracott), Peter Mullan (Ted Narracott), David Thewlis (Lyons), Matt Milne (Andrew), Patrick Kennedy (Lt Charlie Waverly), Robert Emms (David Lyons), Tom Hiddleston (Capt Nicholls), David Kross (Gunther), Celine Buckens (Emilie), Eddie Marsan (Sgt Fry).

  2011

  WRECKERS (Role: David)

  Written and Directed by: D.R. Hood

  Cast included: Claire Foy (Dawn), Shaun Evans (Nick), Peter McDonald (Gary), Sinead Matthews (Sharon), June Watson (Miss Hedges), Georgie Smith (Gemma).

  2012

  GIRLFRIEND IN A COMA (documentary) (Role: Voice of Dante)

  Produced and Directed by: Annalisa Piras

  Featuring: Bill Emmott.

  2012

  THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (Role: Necromancer)

  Directed by: Peter Jackson

  Cast included: Martin Freeman (Bilbo Baggins), Ian McKellen (Gandalf), Orlando Bloom (Legolas), Cate Blanchett (Galadriel), Andy Serkis (Gollum), Sylvester McCoy (Radogast the Brown), Stephen Fry (Master of Laketown), Barry Humphries (Great Goblin), Richard Armitage (Thorin), Elijah Wood (Frodo), Christopher Lee (Saruman), Ken Stott (Balin).

  2012

  ELECTRIC CINEMA: HOW TO BEHAVE (SHORT FILM) (Role: Humphrey Bogart)

  Directed by: Marcel Grant

  Cast included: Alexander Armstrong, Gemma Arterton, James Corden, Natalie Dormer, Harry Enfield, Rebecca Ferdinando, Emilia Fox, Tom Hollander, Toby Longworth, Nigella Lawson, Michael McIntyre, Rafe Spall, Olivia Williams.

  2013

  STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (Role: Khan)

  Directed by: J.J. Abrams

  Cast included: Simon Pegg (Scotty), Zoe Saldana (Lt Uhuru), Chris Pine (Captain Kirk), Zachary Quinto (Spock), Alice Eve (Dr Carol Marcus), Noel Clarke (Thomas Harewood), Karl Urban (Dr. ‘Bones’ McCoy), Anton Yelchin (Chekov), John Cho (Sulu), Bruce Greenwood (Pike), Peter Weller (Marcus).

  2013

  12 YEARS A SLAVE (Role: William Ford)

  Directed by: Steve McQueen

  Cast included: Chiwetel Ejiofor (Solomon Northup), Dwight Henry (Uncle Abram), Bryan Batt (Judge Turner), Michael Fassbender (Edwin Epps), Brad Pitt (Bass), Paul Giamatti (Freeman).

  2013

  THE FIFTH ESTATE (Role: Julian Assange)

  Directed by: Bill Condon

  Cast included: Daniel Bruhl (Daniel Domscheit-Berg), Peter Capaldi (Alan Rusbridger), Dan Stevens (Ian Katz), David Thewlis (Nick Davies), Alexander Beyer (Marcel Rosenbach), Alicia Vikander (Anke Domscheit).

  2013

  AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (Role: ‘Little’ Charles Aiken)

  Directed by: John Wells

  Cast included: Meryl Streep (Violet Weston), Julia Roberts (Barbara Weston), Ewan McGregor (Bill Fordham), Chris Cooper (Charles Aiken), Abigail Breslin (Jean Fordham), Juliette Lewis (Karen Weston), Margo Martindale (Mattie Fae Aiken), Dermot Mulroney (Steve).

  2013

  LITTLE FAVOUR (short film) (Role: Wallace)

  Written and directed by: Patrick Viktor Monroe Cast included: Colin Salmon (James), Nick Moran (Logan), Julian Shaw (Jimmy), Robert Shannon (Morgan).

  2013

  THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (Roles: Smaug/Necromancer)

  Directed by: Peter Jackson

  Cast includes: Martin Freeman (Bilbo Baggins), Ian McKellen (Gandalf), Richard Armitage (Thorin Oakenshield), Luke Evans (Bard the Bowman), Lee Pace (Thrandruil), Cate Blanchett (Galadriel), Andy Serkis (Gollum), Christopher Lee (Saruman), Hugo Weaving (Elrond), Billy Connolly (Dain Ironfoot), Orlando Bloom (Legolas), Manu Bennett (Azog), Evangeline Lilly (Tauriel), Stephen Fry (Master of Laketown), James Nesbitt (Bofur), Ian Holm (Old Bilbo).

  FORTHCOMING FILMS

  2014

  THE HOBBIT: THERE AND BACK AGAIN (Role: Necromancer)

  Directed by: Peter Jackson

  Cast includes: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Evangeline Lilly, Cate Blanchett, Richard Armitage, Billy Connolly, Hugo Weaving, Christopher Lee.

  2014

  THE IMITATION GAME (Role: Alan Turing)

  Directed by: Morten Tyldum

  Cast includes: Keira Knightley, Allen Leech, Mark Strong, Charles Dance, Rory Kinnear, Tom Goodman-Hill, Matthew Goode, James Northcote.

  2014 (tbc)

  FLYING HORSE (Role rumoured to be Harry Larkyns, the theatre critic)

  Written and directed by: Gary Oldman

  Cast scheduled to include: Ralph Fiennes, Gary Oldman (Film about Eadweard Muybridge, the nineteenth-century photographer and inventor.)

  2014 (tbc)

  EVEREST (Role rumoured to be George Mallory)

  Directed by: Doug Liman

  Based on the book by Jeffrey Archer.

  2015 (tbc)

  THE PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR (Voice)

  Directed by: Simon J. Smith

  Written by: John Aboud, Michael Colton, based on characters by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath

  Voice cast includes: Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith, David Schwimmer, Chris Rock, Andy Richter, John Malkovich, Tom McGrath, Nicole Sullivan, John DiMaggio, Chris Miller.

  2015 (tbc)

  MAGIK (Role: Lewis Clark (voice))

  Directed by: Stephen Wallis

  Voice cast includes: Dominique Swain, Samantha Morton, Jim Broadbent, Jimmy Carr, Tom Riley, Matthew Goode, Jake Raymond.

  2015 (tbc)

  THE LOST CITY OF Z (pre-production) (Role: Lt. Col. Percival Fawcett)

  Written and directed by: James Gray

  Based on the book by David Grann.

  RADIO

  2003: 15–19, 22–26 September

  WOMAN’S HOUR DRAMA: MANSFIELD PARK (Role: Edmund (all episodes))

  BBC Radio 4 (Mondays–Fridays, 1045–1100, repeated 1945–2000)

  Directed by: Sally Avens

  Cast included: Amanda Root (Jane Austen), Felicity Jones (Fanny), Tim Pigott-Smith (Sir Thomas), Liza Sadovy (Lady Bertram), Julia McKenzie (Mrs Norris), David Tennant (Tom), Toby Jones (Rushworth), Susan Lynch (Mary), James Callis (Henry), Kate Fleetwood (Maria), Gareth Cork
e (Yates).

  2003: 13 December

  PLAY OF THE WEEK: THE COCKTAIL PARTY (Role: Peter Quilpe)

  BBC World Service (Sunday, 1830–2000 GMT)

  By: T.S. Eliot

  Directed by: Marion Nancarrow

  Cast included: Ian McDiarmid.

  2004: 5 June

  THE SATURDAY PLAY: THE BIGGEST SECRET (Role: Captain Rob Collins)

  BBC Radio 4 (Saturday, 1515–1700)

  Produced by: Jeremy Howe

  Cast included: Juliet Stevenson (Narrator), Claudia Harrison (Cpl Cunningham), Danny Webb (Jack), Kaye Wragg (Gloria), Joseph Tremain (Ray), Ben Tibber (Tim), Colin Stinton (Gen. Eisenhower), Bertie Carvel (Flt. Lt. Parker), Alice Hart (Rosie), Emily Chennery (Lilly), Ricci Harnett (Eddie), Philip Fox (Monty).

  [The play was broadcast as part of a day of programmes commemorating the 60th anniversary of D Day.]

  2004: 5–9, 12–16 July

  A BOOK AT BEDTIME: THE SURGEON’S MATE (Reader (all parts))

  BBC Radio 4 (Mondays–Fridays, 2245–2300)

  By: Patrick O’Brian

  Abridged and produced by: Lisa Osborne

  2004: 11 August

  AFTERNOON PLAY: KEPLER (Role: Johannes Kepler)

  BBC Radio 4 (Wednesday, 1415–1500)

  By: John Banville

  Directed by: Gemma McMullan

  Cast included: Alun Armstrong (Tycho Brahe), Arabella Weir (Barbara Kepler), Gillian Kearney (Sophie), Scott Handy (Longberg), Geoffrey Beevers (Rudolph II), Kenny Baker (Jeppe), Marcella Riordan (Christine), Hannah R. Gordon (Regina), Simon Imrie (Messenger), Kevin Jackson (Court Official).

  2004: 23–27 August

  A BOOK AT BEDTIME: MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINS (Reader (all parts))

  BBC Radio 4 (Monday–Friday, 2245–2300)

  By: Christopher Isherwood

  2004: 28–29 August

  THE ODYSSEY (Role: Telemachus)

  BBC Radio 4

  Part 1: 28 August 2004 (Saturday, 1430–1600)

  Part 2: 28 August 2004 (Saturday, 2100–2230)

  Part 3: 29 August 2004 (Saturday, 1500–1600)

  By: Homer, dramatised by: Simon Armitage

  Directed by: Janet Whitaker

  Cast included: Amanda Redman (Penelope), Tim McInnerny (Odysseus), Janet McTeer (Athena), Frances Barber (Circe), John Wood (Zeus), Mary Wimbush (Eurycleia), Danny Webb (Antinous), Geoffrey Whitehead (King Alcinous), Cheryl Campbell (Queen Arete), Jonathan Keeble (Eurymathus), Barrie Rutter (Cyclops), Adjoa Andon (Calypso).

  2004: 13 September

 

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