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- Have I Got a Bit More News for You (TV) → Self - Presenter
- Blood on Snow → The Fisherman
- Morning → Frank
- Last Flight → Kirk Wallace Johnson
- Wife & Dog
- The Phoenician Scheme → Uncle Nubar
- The Roses → Theo Rose
- The Thing with Feathers → Dad
- Together for Palestine → Self
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More → Henry Sugar / Max Engelman / Harry (archive footage)
- Eric (TV) → Vincent
- The Book of Clarence → Benjamin
- Placebo: This Search for Meaning → Self
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar → Henry Sugar / Make-Up Artist
- Poison → Harry Pope
- The End We Start From → AB
- James Blunt: One Brit Wonder → Self (archive footage)
- Mog's Christmas → Mr. Thomas (voice)
- Arctic: Our Frozen Planet → Narrator
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness → Doctor Stephen Strange
- Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge (TV) → Self
- Minions & More Volume 1 → The Grinch (voice)
- Super/Natural (TV) → Self - Narrator (voice)
- Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness → Self - Doctor Stephen Strange
- Reframing the West: Behind the Scenes of Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog
- The Tiger Who Came to Tea → Daddy (voice)
- Behind the Scenes With Jane Campion → Self (archive footage)
- Spider-Man: No Way Home → Doctor Strange
- What If...? (TV) → Doctor Strange (voice)
- What If...? (TV) → Doctor Strange / Strange Supreme (voice)
- What If...? (TV) → Doctor Strange / Strange-Supreme (voice)
- What If...? (TV) → Strange Supreme / Demon Strange (voice)
- Marvel Studios Legends (TV) → Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Power of the Dog → Phil Burbank
- The Mauritanian → Lt. Stuart Couch
- The Electrical Life of Louis Wain → Louis Wain
- Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special → Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange (voice) (archive footage)
- Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel → Self
- Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
- The Courier → Greville Wynne
- Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King → Self
- Antarctica → Self - Narrator
- The Kelly Clarkson Show (TV) → Self
- Avengers: Endgame → Doctor Strange
- Good Omens (TV) → Satan (voice)
- 1917 → Colonel MacKenzie
- Between Two Ferns: The Movie → Benedict Cumberbatch
- Brexit: The Uncivil War → Dominic Cummings
- The Dog Days of Winter → The Grinch (voice)
- Cindy-Lou's Yule Log → The Grinch
- Avengers: Infinity War → Doctor Strange
- The Grinch → Grinch (voice)
- Patrick Melrose (TV) → Patrick Melrose
- Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle → Shere Khan (voice)
- The Current War → Thomas Edison
- The Child in Time → Stephen Lewis
- Thor: Ragnarok → Doctor Strange
- Walk with Me → Narrator (voice)
- Doctor Strange → Dr. Stephen Strange
- Zoolander 2 → All
- Sherlock: The Abominable Bride → Sherlock Holmes
- Shakespeare Live! From the RSC → Self - Performer
- Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock → Himself
- Naples '44 → Norman Lewis (voice)
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV) → Self - Guest
- Black Mass → Billy Bulger
- National Theatre Live: Hamlet → Hamlet
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (TV) → Self - Guest
- Late Night with Seth Meyers (TV) → Self
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (TV) → Self
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies → Smaug / Sauron (voice)
- The Imitation Game → Alan Turing
- Penguins of Madagascar → Classified (voice)
- How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective → Self
- The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover → Agent Classified (voice)
- Unlocking Sherlock → Himself / Sherlock Holmes
- Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet → Narrator
- 9 Kisses → Man at Costume Party
- Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D → Narrator (Voice)
- 神探夏洛克：最后的誓言
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug → Smaug / Sauron
- 12 Years a Slave → William Ford
- Star Trek Into Darkness → John Harrison / Khan
- August: Osage County → Little Charles Aiken
- The Fifth Estate → Julian Assange
- National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage → Rosencrantz
- Sherlock: Many Happy Returns → Sherlock Holmes
- Jerusalem → Narrator (voice)
- Little Favour → Wallace
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey → Necromancer
- The Hollow Crown (TV) → Richard
- The Hollow Crown (TV) → Richard III
- Parade's End (TV) → Christopher Tietjens
- Why did you come to Japan? (TV) → Self
- Stephen Hawking's Grand Design (TV) → Narrator (voice)
- Frankenstein: A Modern Myth → Self / Frankenstein / The Monster
- Girlfriend in a Coma → Dante (voice)
- WWI's Tunnels of Death: The Big Dig (TV) → Narrator (Voice)
- Sherlock: Uncovered → Sherlock, Self
- The Dreams of William Golding → Reader
- The Jonathan Ross Show (TV) → Self
- War Horse → Maj. Jamie Stewart
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy → Peter Guillam
- National Theatre Live: Frankenstein → The Creature / Victor Frankenstein
- Wreckers → David
- The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch
- Conan (TV) → Self - Guest
- Sherlock (TV) → Sherlock Holmes
- Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (TV) → Stephen Hawking
- Four Lions → Negotiator
- The Whistleblower → Nick Kaufman
- Third Star → James
- Burlesque Fairytales → Henry Clark
- Van Gogh: Painted with Words → Vincent Van Gogh
- Unlocking Sherlock → Himself
- Small Island (TV) → Bernard
- South Pacific (TV) → Self - Narrator (voice)
- Creation → Joseph Dalton Hooker
- The Turning Point → Guy Burgess
- The Other Boleyn Girl → William Carey
- The Last Enemy (TV) → Stephen Ezard
- The Graham Norton Show (TV) → Self
- The Graham Norton Show (TV) → Self - Guest
- Atonement → Paul Marshall
- Stuart: A Life Backwards → Alexander Masters
- Inseparable → Joe / Charlie
- The One Show (TV) → Self - Guest
- Starter for 10 → Patrick Watts
- Amazing Grace → William Pitt
- Nathan Barley (TV) → Robin
- To the Ends of the Earth (TV) → Edmund Talbot
- Broken News (TV) → Will Parker
- The Man Who Predicted 9/11 → Narrator (voice)
- Agatha Christie's Marple (TV) → Luke Fitzwilliam
- Dunkirk (TV) → Lt Jimmy Langley
- Hawking → Stephen Hawking
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV) → Self - Guest
- Cambridge Spies (TV) → Edward Hand
- Fortysomething (TV) → Rory Slippery
- To Kill a King → Royalist
- Top Gear (TV) → Self
- Spooks (TV) → Jim North
- Timeshift (TV) → self
- Tipping the Velvet (TV) → Freddy
- Fields of Gold → Jeremy
- Hills Like White Elephants → The Man
- The View (TV) → Self
- Leute heute (TV) → Self
- The Daily Show (TV) → Self
- Silent Witness (TV) → Warren Reid
- GMTV (TV) → Self
- Heartbeat (TV) → Toby Fisher
- Heartbeat (TV) → Charles
- Have I Got News for You (TV) → Self - Host
- The Simpsons (TV) → Severus Snape / Prime Minister (voice)
- The Simpsons (TV) → Quilloughby (voice)
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark (TV) → Self
- Saturday Night Live (TV) → Self - Host
- Saturday Night Live (TV) → Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- The Oscars (TV) → Self