Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch CBE is an English actor. He has starred as Sherlock Holmes in the series Sherlock since 2010. Cumberbatch has received numerous accolades, including the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for Frankenstein. He was appointed a CBE in the 2015 Birthday Honours for services to the performing arts and to charity.
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Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch CBE is an English actor. He has starred as Sherlock Holmes in the series Sherlock since 2010. Cumberbatch has received numerous accolades, including the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for Frankenstein. In 2015 he was appointed a CBE in the 2015 Birthday Honours for services to the performing arts and to charity. On 16 January 2018, it was announced that Cumberbatch would succeed Timothy Cumberbatch as President of the LAMDA. He is third cousin 16 times removed of King Richard III, whom he portrayed in The Hollow Crown. He made his acting debut as Titania, Queen of the Fairies, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream when he was 12. He attended boarding schools from the age of eight and was educated at Brambletye School in West Sussex. He was 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 continued his training as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating with an MA in Classical Acting. He led the revival of After the Dance at the Royal National Theatre on 16 March 2005 and directed the Duke of York’s Performance by Sharrock on 16 June 2010. In June 2010, Cumberbatch led his first West End appearance as George Tesman in Hedda Gabler, which he performed at the Almeida Theatre, Regent’s Park. He also played the title role in Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre on May 19, 2015.
His great-grandfather, Henry Arnold Cumberbatch, was a diplomat who served as consul in Turkey and Lebanon, and his great-great-grandparents, Robert William Cumberbatch and Henry Carlton, were British consuls in Turkey, the Russian Empire and Turkey. His grandfather was a submarine officer of both World Wars, and a prominent figure of London high society. His father, Timothy Carlton, is an actor and a former director of the London School of Economics. His mother, Wanda Ventham, is a former headmistress of Harrow School and a mother-of-three. He lives in Kensington and Chelsea with his wife and two children. He works as a consultant for the BBC and is a freelance writer and director. He recently appeared in the film The Imitation Game, starring alongside Tom Hanks. He appeared in The Imitations Game as Alan Turing, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for best actor. In 2012, through voice and motion capture, he played the characters of Smaug and the Necromancer in The Hobbit film series. In 2014 Time magazine included him in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2015, he was named as one of the world’s top ten people to watch by Time magazine. He currently lives in London with his family and has a half-sister, Tracy Peacock, from his mother’s first marriage.
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