Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch, född 19 juli 1976 i London, är en brittisk skådespelare.
Cumberbatch har bland annat gjort roller som Stephen Hawking i TV-filmen Hawking, William Pitt den yngre i den historiska filmen Amazing Grace, Sherlock Holmes i den BBC-producerade TV-serien Sherlock och superhjälten Doctor Strange i Marvel Cinematic Universe. Han spelar även John Harrison/Khan i filmen Star Trek Into Darkness samt draken Smaug och Nekromanten i Hobbit: Smaugs ödemark och Hobbit: Femhäraslaget. I filmen The Imitation Game spelar han geniet Alan Turing som lyckades knäcka nazisternas krypteringskoder under andra världskriget.
Han har fått två Laurence Olivier Award-nomineringar samt vunnit en för Best Actor för teaterpjäsen Frankenstein, fått fyra BAFTA-nomineringar, tre Emmy Award-nomineringar samt vunnit en för Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie för Sherlock och en Golden Globe Award-nominering. I november 2013 blev han hedrad av BAFTA Los Angeles med en Britannia Award för British Artist of the Year för hans "mästerliga prestationer i tv, film och teater." 2014 inkluderades Cumberbatch i TIME Magazines lista över världens 100 mest inflytelserika personer.
2015 tilldelades han Brittiska imperieorden av graden CBE (kommendör av andra 2 klass) för sina insatser. Detta är en grad under att kunna tituleras Sir Benedict.
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Date: 19 July 1976
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
M'Bow says charge by Inter-Amer Press Assn that UNESCO conf here is aiding groups trying to gag free press is case of seeking 'freedom of expression for themselves without allowing others to express themselves' (S)
Date: 20 July 1976
By RICHARD L. MADDEN Special to The New York Times
Richard MADDEN
HR investigator David W Bowers repts 4-mo, $150,000 investigation has narrowed search but has not yet found person who made unauthorized disclosure of classified HR Select Com on Intelligence rept; says more than 400 persons have been int to try to determine how copy of rept had made its way to CBS correspondent Daniel Schorr and then to Village Voice; Bowers is 1st witness as HR Com on Standards of Official Conduct begins 2 wks of public hearings on unauthorized disclosure; Repr Otis G Pike testifies he does not know how document was leaked; Repr John J Flynt Jr says that com would seek to determine whether new legis or HR rules changes are needed to handle classified information (S)
Date: 20 July 1976
By Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr article on CIA's protection of confidentiality of its intelligence sources and its links with news media; holds there has been pattern of cooperation between CIA and employers of journalists; notes that former NY Times staff member Wayne Phillips has stated that CIA tried to recruit him in '52 while he was studying at Columbia Univ and said that CIA official told him that CIA had 'working arrangement' with then NY Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger; notes that former CBS News pres Sig Mickelson has said that in '54 he was called to office of CBS bd chmn William S Paley in whose presence 2 CIA officials told him that Austin Goodrich, CBS News stringer in Stockholm, was CIA agent; drawing (M)
Date: 20 July 1976
By JAMES F. CLARITY Special to The New York Times
James CLARITY
Article on some popular TV newscasters in Eur; illus of West Ger announcer Karl Heinz Kopeke, Yugoslavian newscaster Borivoje Mirkovic, French newscaster Roger Gicquel and Brit TV personality David Dimbleby (L)
Date: 20 July 1976
By JAMES F. CLARITY Special to The New York Times
James CLARITY