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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
Shadow Freddy / Professor Shadow
for Shadow Freddy / Professor Shadow in Celestials
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Celestials is a 2022 American superhero film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. Based on Jaxon Harmon's superhero team of the same name and produced by RatPac-Dune Entertainment, it is the first film in the Celestial Five Nights at Freddy's Universe (FNAFU). The ensemble cast includes Benedict Cumberbatch, Gustaf Skarsgård, Ray Fisher, Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine, Gal Gadot, Meagan Good, Sung Kang, Henry Cavill, and Liev Schreiber. It chronicles the story of Golden Freddy (Skarsgård), who has become a dangerous supervillain calling himself Black Sinister, as he plans to enslave the human race with the help his supervillain brotherhood. The Celestials, a team of superheroes, led by Shadow Freddy, known as Professor Shadow, arm themselves and prepare to foil Golden Freddy's plan. Celestials began filming on October 1st, 2016, with Sony Pictures Releasing as the distributor. Sony hired Nolan to direct, and further filming occurred just 1 year later; following its premiere in San Francisco, the film was released on February 12th, 2022. It was a box-office success, grossing $581 million worldwide, and receiving positive reviews from critics and audiences, citing its performances, story, visual effects, and the action sequences. Its critical and financial success revitalized the superhero genre, particularly around the villainous variation of Golden Freddy. A prequel entitled Celestials: The Origins was released 2 years later, while a sequel is in development.
