Pierce, who studied as a graduate student at Cambridge.
In the television series The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019), Raj Koothrappali, portrayed by Kunal Nayyar, studied astrophysics at Cambridge, and Priya Koothrappali, portrayed by Aarti Mann, studied law at Cambridge.
In the 2002 film 28 Days Later, a chimpanzee carrying the "Rage" virus is freed from a fictional Cambridge laboratory.
The 2008 film The History Boys is about a group of boys applying to study history at Cambridge and Oxford.
In the 2011 film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Sherlock Holmes is shown meeting his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, in Moriarty's office with a brief stock shot establishing it as King's College, where Moriarty is a professor.
In the 2014 biographical film The Theory of Everything, young Stephen Hawking falls in love with literature student Jane Wilde at the University of Cambridge, where both of them study.
The 2014 film The Imitation Game is a historical drama that features Alan Turing (played by Benedict Cumberbatch), who is referenced as being a Cambridge alumnus and fellow at King's College at Cambridge.
The 2015 film The Man Who Knew Infinity about mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan was filmed at Trinity College, Cambridge, where Ramanujan was a fellow.
Red Joan (2018) was partly filmed at the University of Cambridge. Joan Smith (played by Judi Dench), loosely inspired by Melita Norwood, is depicted as studying physics at Cambridge.
The 2021 film The Dig features multiple archaeologists with ties to the University of Cambridge, including Charles Phillips (played by Ken Stott) and Peggy Piggott (played by Lily James).
The ITV television series Granchester (2014–) is partly set in and filmed at Cambridge.
The television series Professor T (2021–) stars Ben Miller as Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius University of Cambridge criminologist.
The 2023 film Oppenheimer contains establishing shots of King's College filmed by the River Cam. However, J. Robert Oppenheimer actually studied at Christ's College.
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