Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch’s deep baritone voice, his ability to impersonate celebrities and his ability as a “New King of Celebrity Impersonators”

   Birthplace: Hammersmith (London)

   Age: July 19, 1975(47 years old).

   Achievements:

• Benedict Cumberbatch has won various awards, including the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. He won a British Academy Television Award for “Patrick Melrose”.
  
  
• Cumberbatch won the “Triple Crown of London Theatre”, in 2011, when he won the Olivier Award and the Evening Standard Award at the Royal National Theatre for his performance of “Frankenstein”. Cumberbatch was also named Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II as part of the 2015 Birthday Honors. This honor recognized his contributions to the performing arts, and charity.

   

• Cumberbatch has earned a reputation as one of the best actors in the business. His portrayal of Alan Turing, the mathematician in “The Imitation Game”, earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor.

   Awards:

• British Academy Television Award He won the British Academy Television Award as Best Actor for the performance of his title character in “Patrick Melrose”.

   

• Primetime Emmy Award – Cumberbatch received six nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award, and won the Primetime Emmy Award as Outstanding Lead Actor for a Miniseries or a Movie in recognition of his role as Sherlock Holmes in the film “Sherlock”.

   

• He has been nominated for seven BAFTA Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.
  
  
• Time 100: Time magazine named him as one of “the most influential people in the world” in its Time 100 annual list in 2014.

   

• The Queen appointed him CBE in June 2015, for his contributions to the performing arts as well as to charity.

   

• Outstanding Achievement Award: Cumberbatch received the Outstanding Achievement Award on July 1, 2018 at The South Bank Sky Arts Awards.

   Extra info:

• Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born in 1976 and is a well-known English actor. He has worked on both screen and stage. He has won a number of awards, including the Laurence Olivier Award and Primetime Emmy Award. In addition, he was nominated for two Academy Awards, four Golden Globes and a BAFTA Award.

   

• Benedict Cumberbatch is the son of actors Timothy Carlton Congdon Cumberbatch (born Timothy Carlton Congdon Cumberbatch), and Wanda Ventham. He is the grandson of sub commander Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, and a great grandson of diplomat Henry Arnold Cumberbatch CMG.

   

• Parents are actors; attended Brambletye and Harrow, earning arts scholarship.He had an agent by the time he finished his studies.

   

• Cumberbatch is from a wealthy family. His ancestor Abraham Cumberbatch started a slave-worked sugar plantation on the British colony Barbados.

          Career and Notable Works:

• Benedict Cumberbatch became popular for his portrayal of a modern Sherlock Holmes on the TV series “Sherlock”, (2010). He then went on to play a number of significant roles in mainstream films.

   

• His notable roles include “The Imitation Game” and “Star Trek Into Darkness”.
  
  
• Cumberbatch also played Stephen Hawking and William Pitt, respectively, in “Hawking”, (2004) and “Amazing Grace”, (2006).

           Recent Projects

• Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman will star in the remake of “The War of the Roses”

   

• He also stars in a Netflix series entitled “Eric”, where he portrays Vincent, the New York puppeteer who created a popular children’s television program, and whose son, aged 9, goes missing one morning while walking to school.