Benedict Cumberbatch
4 of 13 portraits by Spencer Murphy
© Spencer Murphy
Benedict Cumberbatch
by Spencer Murphy
chromogenic print, 2010
17 1/8 in. x 14 in. (434 mm x 356 mm) image size
Purchased, 2010
Photographs Collection
NPG x134408
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Photographed at Kettner's, Soho, London, for the Guardian Weekend magazine, published 17 July 2010.
Linked publicationsback to top
- 100 Photographs, 2018, p. 131 Read entry
British actor Benedict Cumberbatch (b.1976) studied drama at Manchester University and the London Academy of Music and Drama. He came to prominence playing Sherlock Holmes in the BBC series Sherlock (2010) and has appeared in the films Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), War Horse (2011), Star Trek: Into the Darkness (2013), The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave (2013). Cumberbatch received Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for his starring role as Alan Turing in the biopic The Imitation Game (2014). He was photographed at iconic Soho restaurant Kettner’s, London, for the Guardian Weekend magazine by British photographer Spencer Murphy (b.1978). In 2013 Murphy was the winner of the National Portrait Gallery’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Creative Connections 2015: Camden Radical Characters (1 July 2015 - 11 October 2015)
- Sixteen by Fourteen: Recent Photographic Acquisitions (7 February 2011 - 9 October 2011)
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