On July 19, 1976, Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch, CBE, was born. He is an actor from England. He has won numerous awards for his work on the stage and film, including the Laurence Olivier Award, the Primetime Emmy Award, and the British Academy Television Award. He has also been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and two British Academy Film Awards. He was designated one of the 100 most important persons in the world by Time magazine in 2014, and he received a CBE at Buckingham Palace in 2015 for his contributions to philanthropy and the performing arts.
Cumberbatch earned a Master of Arts in classical acting from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art after studying theatre at Victoria University of Manchester. Prior to making his West End debut in Richard Eyre’s revival of Hedda Gabler in 2005, he first appeared in Shakespearean theatre productions. Since then, he has been in the Royal National Theatre productions of Frankenstein (2011) and After the Dance (2010), for which he received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor. At the Barbican Theatre in 2015, he performed as Hamlet. As Stephen Hawking in the television movie Hawking, Cumberbatch has been on television (2004). His role as Sherlock Holmes in the BBC series Sherlock from 2010 to 2017 helped him become more well-known. For this role, he was honoured with a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie. He received the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 2018 for his performance as the titular character in the miniseries Patrick Melrose.
In addition to appearing in the historical plays Amazing Grace (2006), 12 Years a Slave (2013), 1917 (2019), and The Courier, Cumberbatch has played Khan in the movie Star Trek Into Darkness (2013).His portrayals of Alan Turing in The Imitation Game (2014) and a volatile rancher in The Power of the Dog garnered him praise from critics and Academy Award nominations for Best Actor (2021). Cumberbatch portrayed Smaug and Sauron in the The Hobbit movie trilogy from 2012 to 2014 using voice and motion capture. He has portrayed Stephen Strange in a number of Marvel Studios movies since 2016, such as Doctor Strange (2016) and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).
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Net Worth
Cumberbatch’s estimated net worth is $40 million (£32 million), according to Celebrity Net Worth.
The Marvel actor got his start in show business at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where he studied drama. From there, he went on to play several significant roles on the West End and win an Olivier Award for outstanding supporting role.
Along with his passion for acting and the theatre, Cumberbatch went on to star in his breakthrough movie, Hawking (2004), in which he played scientist Steven Hawkings.
Career Journey
At the Regent’s Park Open Air, Almeida, Royal Court, and Royal National Theatres since 2001, Cumberbatch has played pivotal roles in a dozen classic plays. Hedda Gabler, which he performed at the Almeida Theatre on March 16, 2005, and the Duke of York’s Theatre when it moved to the West End on May 19, 2005, earned him an Olivier Award nomination for Best Performance in a Supporting Role. He made his West End debut with this transfer.
At the Royal National Theatre in June 2010, Cumberbatch served as the director of Thea Sharrock’s revival of Terence Rattigan’s After the Dance. Commercial and critical success followed his portrayal of aristocrat David Scott-Fowler in the 1920s. Four Olivier Awards, including Best Revival, were given to the play. He performed in Danny Boyle’s The Children’s Monologues, a theatrical benefit performance on November 14, 2010, at London’s Old Vic Theatre, which was organised by Dramatic Need.
In Danny Boyle’s stage adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein at the Royal National Theatre, Cumberbatch started playing Victor Frankenstein and his creation on alternating evenings, opposite Jonny Lee Miller. In March 2011, National Theatre Live aired Frankenstein to theatres. By winning the Olivier Award, Evening Standard Award, and Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for his work in Frankenstein in 2011, Cumberbatch won the “Triple Crown of London Theatre.”
In a scene from Tom Stoppard’s play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, he played Rosencrantz. Sir Nicholas Hytner was the director of the production, which was part of National Theatre Live and aired on BBC Two and in theatres all over the world.
At London’s Barbican Theatre, Cumberbatch made a comeback to the stage to perform Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The 12-week run of the show, which was produced and directed by Sonia Friedman, began in August 2015. The National Theatre Company transmitted the performance, which also starred Sian Brooke, via satellite throughout the world as Hamlet in Rehearsal. For the part, he was nominated for his third Laurence Olivier Award.
Movies
As Doctor Strange, Cumberbatch appeared in the 2016 movie of the same name, Avengers: Infinity War, which came out in 2018, and Avengers: Endgame, which came out in April 2019. His portrayal of Strange also appeared in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Spider-Man: No Way Home. In September 2017, he played Thomas Edison, the father of modern electricity, in the movie The Current War. Along with Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett, Cumberbatch portrayed the title character in the 2018 movie The Grinch and played the tiger Shere Khan in the Netflix adaption of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle. He had a fleeting appearance as British Colonel Mackenzie in Sam Mendes’ World War I movie in 2019.
Wife and family
He is a follower of Buddhism and has said that he enjoys mindfulness and meditation. Cumberbatch consumes only vegan food.
From his time at Manchester University until 2010, Cumberbatch was engaged to actress Olivia Poulet for twelve years.
Sophie Hunter, a director of English opera and theatre, is married to Cumberbatch. After a seventeen-year acquaintance, their engagement was declared in the “Forthcoming Marriages” section of The Times on November 5, 2014. The wedding took place on February 14, 2015, in Mottistone, Isle of Wight, at the 12th-century Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, and was followed by a celebration at Mottistone Manor. Three of their sons exist.
