--- title: Photo: Benedict Cumberbatch Posed as Mr. Darcy For Charity description: This photograph of Benedict Cumberbatch posed as Pride and Prejudice's Mr. Darcy is a literal act of charity. canonical: https://time.com/3386696/benedict-cumberbatch-mr-darcy/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-16T14:38:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:13.493Z og:title: Photo: Benedict Cumberbatch Posed as Mr. Darcy For Charity og:description: It's for charity! og:url: https://time.com/3386696/benedict-cumberbatch-mr-darcy/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Photo: Benedict Cumberbatch Posed as Mr. Darcy For Charity twitter:description: It's for charity! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Picture of Benedict Cumberbatch As Mr. Darcy Will Make The World a Better Place by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Sep 16, 2014 2:38 PM UTC by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Sep 16, 2014 2:38 PM UTC **Correction appended 5:02 p.m. ET** > [](http://twitter.com/DundasComms/status/511810578935865344) This photograph of Benedict Cumberbatch posed as _Pride and Prejudice’s_ Mr. Darcy is a literal act of charity. The _Sherlock_ star recreated Colin Firth’s iconic scene of Darcy in the lake (from the BBC’s 1995 television adaptation of the novel), as a part of the [Give Up Clothes For Good](http://metro.co.uk/2014/09/16/benedict-cumberbatch-does-a-mr-darcy-for-charity-campaign-and-its-giving-us-the-feels-4870659/) campaign by Cancer Research UK and clothing store TK Maxx. It’s also an act of charity for ogling fans — although we’re not quite sure what we did to deserve it. In case you needed to remember the original scene of Colin Firth playing a very wet Fitzwilliam Darcy, we’ve provided video footage below: _The original version of this story incorrectly stated the first name of the Jane Austen character played by Colin Firth in the 1995 BBC miniseries. It is Fitzwilliam._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3386696/benedict-cumberbatch-mr-darcy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3386696/benedict-cumberbatch-mr-darcy/"},"headline":"This Picture of Benedict Cumberbatch As Mr. Darcy Will Make The World a Better Place","datePublished":"2014-09-16T14:38:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:13.493Z","description":"It's for charity!","url":"https://time.com/3386696/benedict-cumberbatch-mr-darcy/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Benedict Cumberbatch","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3386696/benedict-cumberbatch-mr-darcy/","name":"This Picture of Benedict Cumberbatch As Mr. Darcy Will Make The World a Better Place"}}]}] ```