But with plenty of major characters to his name, there’s one particularly controversial one Cumberbatch would never play again, and he had to ‘apologise a lot for’. And for fans, it’s one you might instantly remember – All in Zoolander 2.

Benedict Cumberbatch‘s impressive 23-year career has taken the English-born star to big franchises, brilliant standalone films, and first-rate TV series. Over the last two decades, Cumberbatch has portrayed iconic characters from Marvel superheroes to a famous detective to a sinister dragon.

Of course, even well-regarded actors have lapses in judgment — which is where Benedict's turn as a nonbinary character in the 2016 flop Zoolander 2 comes in. In the film, Benedict played a NB model named All — and people were,

I’ve had to apologize for that quite a lot,” Benedict Cumberbatch said of his controversial character in Ben Stiller’s 2016 sequel