Benedict Cumberbatch Biography

Benedict Cumberbatch (Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch) an English actor and Primetime Emmy Award, a British Academy Television Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award. He earned the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor as a Leading Role in a Play for Frankenstein and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for Sherlock.

He as well got nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award, all for Best Actor in a Leading Role for starring in The Imitation Game (2014). He as well earned a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for starring the title role in five-part drama miniseries Patrick Melrose.

Back in 2014 Time magazine featured in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2015 he got appointed a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II and in the 2015 Birthday Honours for services to the performing arts and to charity.

Benedict Cumberbatch Age

Benedict was born on 19th of July 1976, in Hammersmith, London, England.

Benedict Cumberbatch Height and Weight

Cox stands tall at a height of 6 feet 0 inches tall which is equivalent to 1.83 meters and has an average body weight.

Benedict Cumberbatch Education

Benedict joined to boarding schools since the age of eight. He enrolled at Brambletye School in West Sussex and was an arts scholar at Harrow School. He served as a member of The Rattigan Society, Harrow’s principal club for the dramatic arts, which was named after Old Harrovian and playwright Terence Rattigan. He as well got involved in various Shakespearean works at school and later made his acting debut as Titania, Queen of the Fairies, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the age of 12. His drama teacher at Harrow warned him against a career in acting, calling it a “tough business”.

He later attended Richard III’s 2015 reburial and read a poem. He later took a gap year to volunteer as an English teacher at a Tibetan monastery in Darjeeling, India and as well joined Victoria University of Manchester, where he studied drama. He therea after joined the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and later graduated with an MA in classical acting. It was announced that he would succeed Timothy West as president of LAMDA back in 2018.

He as well performed at the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park in Shakespearean productions, and later made his West End debut in Richard Eyre’s revival of Hedda Gabler in 2005. Back in 2015, he featuted in Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre. He as well earned a worldwide recognition for his performance as Sherlock Holmes in the BBC series Sherlock as of 2010 to 2017. He as well headlined Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of Parade’s End (2012), The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses (2016), Patrick Melrose (2018), and Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019).

Benedict Cumberbatch Family

Benedict was born to Timothy Carlton (born Timothy Carlton Congdon Cumberbatch) and Wanda Ventham and both actors. She was raised up in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea and has a half-sister, Tracy Peacock, from his mother’s first marriage.

Benedict Cumberbatch Wife

Benedict is a married man to Sophie Hunter, an English theatre and opera director. The pair got engagedment was shared in the “Forthcoming Marriages” section of The Times on 5 November 2014. The duo tied the knot back on February 14, 2015, at the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Mottistone on the Isle of Wight followed by a reception at Mottistone Manor. Thee pair have been blessed with three children named Christopher Carlton (born 2015), Hal Auden (born 2017), and Finn (born 2019).

Benedict Cumberbatch Movies

• Hills Like White Elephants
• To Kill a King
• Starter for 10
• Amazing Grace
• Inseparable
• Atonement
• The Other Boleyn Girl
• Creation
• Burlesque Fairytales
• Four Lions
• Third Star
• The Whistleblower
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Wreckers
• War Horse
• Girlfriend in a Coma
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Star Trek Into Darkness
• Little Favour
• 12 Years a Slave
• The Fifth Estate
• August: Osage County
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
• The Imitation Game
• Penguins of Madagascar
• Black Mass
• Zoolander 2
• Doctor Strange
• The Current War
• Thor: Ragnarok
• Avengers: Infinity War
• The Grinch
• The Dog Days of Winter
• Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
• Avengers: Endgame
• Between Two Ferns: The Movie
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• The Courier
• The Mauritanian
• The Power of the Dog
• The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
• Spider-Man: No Way Home
• Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Benedict Cumberbatch TV Shows

• Tipping the Velvet
• Silent Witness
• Cambridge Spies
• SpooksFortysomething
• Dunkirk
• Heartbeat
• Hawking
• Nathan Barley
• To the Ends of the Earth
• Broken News
• Stuart: A Life Backwards
• The Last Enemy
• Small Island
• Marple: Murder Is Easy
• Van Gogh: Painted with Words
• The Rattigan Enigma
• Sherlock
• Parade’s End
• The Simpsons
• The Colbert Report
• The Hollow Crown
• Saturday Night Live
• The Child in Time
• Patrick Melrose
• Brexit: The Uncivil War
• Good Omens
• What If…?

Benedict Cumberbatch Net Worth

Benedict has an estimated net worth of $40 million.