Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Hills Like White Elephants	The Man	Short film
2003	To Kill a King	Royalist
2006	Starter for 10	Patrick Watts
2006	Amazing Grace	William Pitt
2007	Inseparable	Joe/Charlie	Short film
2007	Atonement	Paul Marshall
2007	Stuart: A Life Backwards	Alexander Masters
2008	The Other Boleyn Girl	William Carey
2009	Creation	Joseph Hooker
2010	Burlesque Fairytales	Henry Clark
2010	Four Lions	Negotiator
2010	Van Gogh: Painted with Words	Vincent van Gogh
2010	Third Star	James
2010	The Whistleblower	Nick Kaufman
2011	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Peter Guillam
2011	War Horse	Major Jamie Stewart
2011	Wreckers	David
2012	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	The Necromancer
2012	Girlfriend in a Coma	Dante Alighieri voice	Documentary
2013	Star Trek Into Darkness	Khan Noonien Singh
2013	Little Favour	Wallace	Short Film
2013	12 Years a Slave	William Ford
2013	The Fifth Estate	Julian Assange
2013	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	Smaug / The Necromancer
2013	August: Osage County	“Little” Charles Aiken	Also sang “Can’t Keep It Inside” on soundtrack
2014	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies	Smaug / The Necromancer
2014	The Imitation Game	Alan Turing	Post-production
2015	Magik	Lewis	Voice
2015	The Penguins of Madagascar		Voice

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Heartbeat	Charles	1 episode
2002	Tipping the Velvet	Freddy	Miniseries
2002	Silent Witness	Warren Reid	2 episodes
2003	Cambridge Spies	Edward Hand	Miniseries
2003	Spooks	Jim North	1 episode
2003	Fortysomething	Rory Slippery	6 episodes
2004	Dunkirk	Lt. Jimmy Langley	Documentary
2004	Heartbeat	Toby Fisher	1 episode
2004	Hawking	Stephen Hawking	TV film
2005	Nathan Barley	Robin	2 episodes
2005	To the Ends of the Earth	Edmund Talbot	3 episodes
2005	Broken News	Will Parker	3 episodes
2008	The Last Enemy	Stephen Ezard	5 episodes
2009	Small Island	Bernard	TV film
2009	Marple: Murder Is Easy	Luke Fitzwilliam	TV film
2010	The Turning Point	Guy Burgess	TV Theatre Live
2010	The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch	Presenter	Documentary
2010–present	Sherlock	Sherlock Holmes	Main Role
2012	Parade’s End	Christopher Tietjens	5 episodes
2013	The Simpsons	British Prime Minister / Severus Snape(voices)	Episode “Love is a Many-Splintered Thing”
2013	Top Gear	Himself	Series 20, Episode 3
2016	The Hollow Crown	King Richard The Third

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue
2001	Love’s Labour’s Lost	Ferdinand	Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park
2001	A Midsummer Night’s Dream	Demetrius	Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park
2002	As You Like It	Orlando	Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park
2002	Romeo and Juliet	Benvolio	Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park
2002	Oh, What a Lovely War!	Unknown	Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park
2004	The Lady from the Sea	Lyngstrand	Almeida Theatre
2005	Hedda Gabler	Tesman	Almeida Theatre / Duke of York’s Theatre
2006	Period of Adjustment	George	Almeida Theatre
2007	Rhinoceros	Bérenger	Royal Court Theatre
2007	The Arsonists	Eisenring	Royal Court Theatre
2008	The City	Chris	Royal Court Theatre
2010	After the Dance	David Scott-Fowler	Royal National Theatre
2010	The Children’s Monologues	Unknown	Old Vic Theatre
2011	Frankenstein	The Creature/Victor Frankenstein	Royal National Theatre
2013	50 Years on Stage	Himself/Rosencrantz	Royal National Theatre
2015	Hamlet	Hamlet	Barbican Theatre

Radio

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	The Raj Quartet	Nigel Rowan	BBC Radio 4
2004	Kepler	Johannes Kepler	BBC Radio 4
2004	The Recruiting Officer	Worthy	BBC Radio 4
2004	The Odyssey	Telemachus	BBC Radio 4
2004	The Biggest Secret	Captain Rob Collins	BBC Radio 4
2004	The Far Side of the World	Narrator	BBC Radio 4
2004	The Surgeons Mate	Narrator	BBC Radio 4
2004	Mr. Norris Changes Trains	Narrator	BBC Radio 4
2005	Le Pere Goriot	Narrator	BBC Radio 4
2005	Seven Women	Tovey	BBC Radio 4
2005	Medical Humanities: Baptism by Rotation	Narrator	BBC Radio 4
2005	Fieldstudy: The Field	Narrator	BBC Radio 4
2005	The Cocktail Party	Peter Quilpe	BBC Radio 4
2006	The Possessed	Nikolai Stavrogin	BBC Radio 3
2008	The Pillow Book	Tadanobu	BBC Radio 4
2008	Blake 7 The Early Years	Townsend
2008	The Last Days of Grace	GF	BBC Radio 4
2008	At War with Wellington	Duke of Wellington	BBC Radio 4
2008	Chatterton: The Allington Solution	Thomas Chatterton	BBC Radio 4
2008	Spellbound	Dr Murchison	BBC Radio 4
2008	Rainy Season	Narrator	BBC Radio 4
2008	The Tiger’s Tale	Narrator	BBC Radio 4
2008	Words and Music: Italian Fantasy	Narrator	BBC Radio 4
2008	Doctor Who: Forty-Five	Howard Carter / Thing 2
2008–2014	Cabin Pressure	Capt. Martin Crieff	BBC Radio 4
2008	Metamorphosis	Narrator	BBC Radio 7
2009	Good Evening	Dudley Moore	BBC Radio 4
2009	Little Red Hen	Narrator	Ladybird
2009	Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders]	Young Rumpole	BBC Radio 4
2010	Rumpole and the Family Pride	Young Rumpole	BBC Radio 4
2010	Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle	Young Rumpole	BBC Radio 4
2010	Words for You: The Next Chapter	Narrator
2011	Tom and Viv	T. S. Eliot	BBC Radio 7
2012	Rumpole and the Man of God	Young Rumpole	BBC Radio 4
2012	Rumpole and the Explosive Evidence]	Young Rumpole	BBC Radio 4
2012	Rumpole and the Gentle Art of Blackmail	Young Rumpole	BBC Radio 4
2012	Rumpole and the Expert Witness	Young Rumpole	BBC Radio 4
2013	Copenhagen	Werner Heisenberg	BBC Radio 3
2013	Neverwhere	Angel Islington	BBC Radio 4
2014	Rumpole and the Old Boy Net	Rumpole	BBC Radio 4
2014	Rumpole and the Sleeping Partners	Rumpole	BBC Radio 4

Narration

Year	Title	Notes
2006	Casanova	Track: “Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova”[82]
2005	The Man Who Predicted 9/11	Documentary
2008	Picture This	Documentary; 3 episodes
2009	South Pacific	Documentary; 6 episodes
2010	Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking	Documentary; 3 episodes
2011	Curiosity	Documentary
2012	Stephen Hawking’s Grand Design	Documentary; 3 episodes
2012	Late Night Tales: Friendly Fires	Track: “Flat of Angles (Part 1)”
2013	Late Night Tales: Röyksopp	Track: “Flat of Angles (Part 2)”
2013	Late Night Tales: Bonobo	Track: “Flat of Angles (Part 3)”
2013	Jerusalem	Documentary

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	The Nightjar	Narrator	Voice
2014	Sherlock: The Network	Sherlock Holmes