![]() ![]() After school, he took a gap year to teach English in a Tibetan monastery. He was also part of the rugby team, and painted oil canvasses while at Harrow. Cumberbatch's drama teacher, Martin Tyrell, called him "the best schoolboy actor" he has ever worked with. He was involved in numerous Shakespearean works in school and made his acting debut as Titania Queen of the Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream when he was 12. He was a member of The Rattigan Society, Harrow's principal club for the dramatic arts which was named after Old Harrovian and playwright Sir Terence Rattigan. He was educated at Brambletye School in West Sussex and was an arts scholar at Harrow School. His grandfather, Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, was a decorated submarine officer of both World Wars and a prominent figure of London high society.Ĭumberbatch started attending boarding schools when he was eight. ![]() His great-grandfather, Henry Arnold Cumberbatch CMG, was the consul general of Queen Victoria in Turkey. He grew up in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea with his parents, actors Timothy Carlton (born Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch) and Wanda Ventham. In November 2013, he was honoured by BAFTA Los Angeles with a Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year for his "masterful performances in television, film and theatre."Ĭumberbatch was born on 19 July 1976 at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in Hammersmith, London. He has earned an Olivier Award, four BAFTA nominations, two Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe nomination, among several others. In December 2013, he confirmed his return to theatre to play Shakespeare's Hamlet at London's West End in the autumn of 2014.Ĭumberbatch is also set to play Amazon explorer Percy Fawcett for the film adaptation of the best-selling book The Lost City of Z to be directed by James Gray. His most acclaimed roles include Stephen Hawking in the BBC drama Hawking (2004), Victor Frankenstein and his creature in Danny Boyle's stage adaptation of Frankenstein (2011) at the Royal National Theatre, Sherlock Holmes in the BBC/PBS series Sherlock, Peter Guillam in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Christopher Tietjens in the BBC/HBO miniseries Parade's End (2013), Khan Noonien Singh in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and Smaug the dragon through voice and motion capture in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy.Ĭumberbatch stars in the upcoming historical drama film, The Imitation Game (2014) as wartime cryptographer Alan Turing. MA in Classical Acting for the Professional Theatreīenedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 1976) is an English film, television, theatre and voice actor. Cumberbatch at the 68th Venice International Film Festival, September 2011
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