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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
003 – Nicholas West
for 003 – Nicholas West in Program 00
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A series of murders of former spies unsettles secret services. M summons Program 00, active agents with a license to kill. Bond finds himself alongside men he has only heard of in whispers. He must uncover a secret organization that is attacking MI6. There is rivalry between some of the agents. But everyone knows that the world is facing something MI6 has never experienced. The 00 group is split up around the world. Each of them is a target. The trail leads to an agent who officially never existed. MI6 locates the base. No one suspects that Dr. Julius No is not only a new villain, but also the first 00. No is code for N°0, so he was originally a super agent with the code 000. He has begun his revenge. Using the Spectre network, former Soviet scientists, and an artificial intelligence named OMEGA, he aims to destroy MI6 and dismantle the 00 system. One by one, the 00 agents die. Bond reaches the base and comes face to face with Dr. No. Flashbacks show Dr. No, who was once Operative Zero, the prototype super agent. When MI6 discovered that there was great evil within him, he was erased, but survived. 003 freezes to death in a Siberian bunker. 004 sacrifices himself with an explosive to save the others. 005 is betrayed by his own protégé. 002 stays behind to hold off the Spectre army. 006 Travelayne dies while inputting a sequence into the central server core. 008 dies at the hands of 000 in a brutal, personal scene. 009 falls like a tank, a sacrifice that allows Bond to succeed
