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Johnny Depp

Benedict Cumberbatch

Head-to-Head Comparison

Johnny Depp

4 : 3

Benedict Cumberbatch

#35

Current Rank

#1

#1

Peak Rank

#1

41

Years Ranked

21

14

Years in Top 10

10

14 years

Longest Top 10 Streak

9 years

41

Years in Top 50

18

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest $423.3 Million

Biggest Hit

Avengers: Endgame $858.4 Million

$4.5 Billion

Career Domestic Box Office

$5.4 Billion

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Career Ranking History

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Filmography Comparison

Johnny Depp

59 theatrical releases • $4.5 Billion Domestic

Year Movie Domestic Box Office
2021 City of Lies $572,493
2018 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald $159.6 Million
2018 London Fields $252,676
2018 Sherlock Gnomes $43.2 Million
2017 Murder on the Orient Express $102.8 Million
2017 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales $172.6 Million
2016 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them $234.0 Million
2016 Alice Through the Looking Glass $77.0 Million
2015 Black Mass $62.6 Million
2015 Mortdecai $7.7 Million
2014 Into the Woods $128.0 Million
2014 Tusk $1.8 Million
2014 Transcendence $23.0 Million
2014 Lucky Them $48,995
2013 The Lone Ranger $89.3 Million
2012 Dark Shadows $79.7 Million
2012 21 Jump Street $138.4 Million
2011 Jack and Jill $74.2 Million
2011 The Rum Diary $13.1 Million
2011 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides $241.1 Million
2011 Rango $123.5 Million
2010 The Tourist $67.6 Million
2010 Alice in Wonderland $334.2 Million
2009 Public Enemies $97.1 Million
2009 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus $7.7 Million
2007 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street $52.9 Million
2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End $309.4 Million
2006 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest $423.3 Million
2005 Corpse Bride $53.4 Million
2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory $206.5 Million
2005 The Libertine $4.8 Million
2004 Finding Neverland $51.7 Million
2004 Secret Window $48.0 Million
2003 Lost in La Mancha $732,393
2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico $56.4 Million
2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl $305.4 Million
2001 From Hell $31.6 Million
2001 Blow $53.0 Million
2001 The Man Who Cried $747,092
2000 Chocolat $71.5 Million
2000 Before Night Falls $4.2 Million
2000 The Ninth Gate $18.7 Million
1999 Sleepy Hollow $101.1 Million
1999 The Astronaut's Wife $10.7 Million
1998 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas $10.7 Million
1997 Donnie Brasco $41.9 Million
1996 Dead Man $1.0 Million
1995 Nick of Time $8.2 Million
1995 Don Juan DeMarco $22.2 Million
1995 Arizona Dream $112,547
1994 Ed Wood $5.9 Million
1993 What's Eating Gilbert Grape $10.0 Million
1993 Benny & Joon $23.3 Million
1991 Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare $34.9 Million
1990 Edward Scissorhands $56.4 Million
1990 Cry-Baby $8.3 Million
1986 Platoon $138.5 Million
1985 Private Resort $331,816
1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street $25.5 Million

Benedict Cumberbatch

35 theatrical releases • $5.4 Billion Domestic

Year Movie Domestic Box Office
2025 The Roses $15.3 Million
2025 The Phoenician Scheme $19.6 Million
2025 The Thing with Feathers $171,832
2024 The Book of Clarence $6.1 Million
2022 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness $411.3 Million
2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home $804.8 Million
2021 The Mauritanian $836,536
2021 The Courier $6.6 Million
2019 1917 $159.2 Million
2019 Avengers: Endgame $858.4 Million
2019 The Current War $6.0 Million
2018 The Grinch $271.7 Million
2018 Avengers: Infinity War $678.8 Million
2017 Thor: Ragnarok $315.1 Million
2016 Doctor Strange $232.6 Million
2016 Zoolander 2 $28.8 Million
2015 Black Mass $62.6 Million
2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies $255.1 Million
2014 Penguins of Madagascar $83.9 Million
2014 The Imitation Game $91.1 Million
2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug $258.4 Million
2013 August: Osage County $37.7 Million
2013 The Fifth Estate $3.3 Million
2013 12 Years a Slave $56.7 Million
2013 Star Trek Into Darkness $228.8 Million
2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey $303.0 Million
2011 War Horse $79.9 Million
2011 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy $24.1 Million
2011 The Whistleblower $1.1 Million
2010 Four Lions $304,616
2010 Creation $341,323
2008 The Other Boleyn Girl $26.8 Million
2007 Atonement $50.9 Million
2007 Amazing Grace $21.3 Million
2007 Starter for 10 $216,839