Benedict Cumberbatch trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Theatre includes: Lady from the Sea (Almeida Theatre); Oh What a Lovely War, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love’s Labour’s Lost (The New Shakespeare Co.); The Visit (Drayton Court, Ealing); Rhinoceros (Royal Court Theatre)

Television includes: Hawking; Dunkirk; Forty Something; Spooks; Cambridge Spies; Tipping the Velvet; Silent Witness; Fields of Gold; Heartbeat; Stuart: A Life Backwards.

Films include: To Kill a King; Hills Like White Elephants; Atonement.