Benedict Cumberbatch:
Is an English actor and film producer
Birth Name: Benedict Timothy Carlton  Cumberbatch

Born: July 19, 1976 (age 39), Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom 

best known for his role in the BBC television show Sherlock. He has also appeared in Hollywood films such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, War Horse, Star Trek: Into the Darkness and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. He has won several stage and screen acting awards and received both Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for his role in the acclaimed 2014 Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game.

Early Years:

they tried to steer young Benedict away from the stage and sent him to Harrow public school, where he had been awarded an arts scholarship.
At Harrow, he displayed an interest in rugby and painting, but it was theater that captured his imagination. Under the mentorship of Martin Tyrrell, Cumberbatch's first role was as Titania, Queen of the Faeries, in the William Shakespeare play A Midsummer's Night Dream. Cumberbatch left Harrow, spent a year teaching English in Tibet, and then returned to England to study drama at the University of Manchester. After graduation, he spent a year at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Professional Success:

Cumberbatch's television work includes appearances in Heartbeat (2000), Silent Witness (2002) and Fortysomething (2003)
Cumberbatch began his career with roles in classic plays and small television shows.  His breakthrough on the big screen came in 2004 when he portrayed Stephen Hawking in the television movie Hawking (2004), Cumberbatch's performance earned him a BAFTA nomination.  His first film was the 2006 college comedy Starter for 10. A year later, he appeared in the film Atonement and played opposite Tom Hardy in the TV movie Stuart: A Life Backwards.  He unexpectedly got dual voice roles on Los Simpson (1989) when he visited Fox's studio for a completely unrelated appointment. He first performed at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park in Shakespearean productions such as Love's Labour's Lost (2001), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2001), and Romeo and Juliet (2002). He also portrayed George Tesman in Richard Eyre's revival of Hedda Gabler in 2005 and since then has starred in the Royal National Theatre productions After the Dance (2010) and Frankenstein (2011). In 2015, he played William Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre.

In 2010, he became a household name as Sherlock Holmes on the British television series Sherlock (2010). The BBC aired a modern adaptation of the story, which won widespread praise and granted stardom to Cumberbatch, who plays Sherlock. Martin Freeman plays Holmes's sidekick, Dr. Watson. In 2011, Cumberbatch seemed locked in a Hollywood trajectory with roles in the Cold War thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Steven Spielberg's World War I drama, War Horse, Caballo de guerra ,El topo .  The role required him to alternate playing Victor Frankenstein and playing his monster on opposite nights, and earned him an Olivier Award for Best Actor jointly with his co-star Jonny Lee Miller.

In the 2012 film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Cumberbatch provided the voice for the Necromancer, and the dragon, Smaug. He also played the villain in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek sequel, Star Trek: Into the Darkness, Star Trek: En la oscuridad (2013).  continued to thrive in 2013 with such films as Steve McQueen's true life drama 12 Years a Slave, 12 años de esclavitud . He also stars in The Fifth Estate (2013), playing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. the second half of 2013 premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival: The Fifth Estate, in which he played WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. 

In 2014, Cumberbatch won his first Emmy after three nominations for his lead role in PBS' Sherlock, a modern take on the classic detective. The same year he starred in the WWII drama The Imitation Game, El código enigma as trailblazing mathematician Alan Turing, earned him a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, British Academy of Film and Television Arts and an Academy Award nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role.  In January 2014, Gary Oldman confirmed that Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes and Amanda Seyfried are to star in Oldman's next directorial project, Flying Horse, about the life of English photographer Eadweard Muybridge. In May 2014, he joined the cast of the film Black Mass opposite Johnny Depp which was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures worldwide. 


Personal Life:

Cumberbatch is married to theatre and opera director Sophie Hunter. Their engagement was announced in the "Forthcoming Marriages" section of The Times on 5 November 2014, after a 17-year friendship.  On 14 February 2015, the couple married at the 12th century Church of St. Peter and St. Paul on the Isle of Wight followed by a reception at Mottistone Manor. They have a son, Christopher Carlton (b. 2015).