He officiated at Rinder's marriage to his partner after being ordained by the Universal Life Church. Named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. Cumberbatch is uncomfortable with the term "Cumberbitches" because he says its non-inclusive and pejorative. Know the man beyond Sherlock
Coincidentally, Miller was solid as Sherlock Holmes in the American TV sequence ‘Elementary’ (2012) and Cumberbatch has been enjoying the detective in BBC’s ‘Sherlock’ since 2010. One of his first ever acting roles was playing Titania, Queen of the Fairies in Shakespeare's comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream" when he was age 13.
His fragrance of choice is Eau de Monsieur by Annick Goutal. During his gap year, before studying Drama in Manchester University, he spent some time volunteering as an English teacher at a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Darjeeling, India.
I really, really, really hope THAT IS TRUE! He was the cover star of The Hollywood Reporter's "New A-List" issue in September 2013. Of those, 12 Years a Slave (2013) is a winner in the category. Both actors have portrayed Professor Stephen Hawking in different productions: Cumberbatch in Hawking (2004), and Redmayne in The Theory of Everything (2014).
According to ancestry.ca, he is related to famed astronaut Chris Hadfield.
Before he became a household name, Benedict appeared with Felicity Jones and David Tennant in a BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" (2003). He voiced the United Kingdom's Prime Minister (patterned from Hugh Grant's character in Love Actually (2003)) and did an Alan Rickman impression to voice Snape for the Special Valentine Episode that aired February 2013. Benedict Cumberbatch together with his then girlfriend Olivia Poulet in a nonetheless from ‘The Blind Banker’, the second episode of ‘Sherlock’ (Season 1) 9.
(September 17, 2018) Expecting her third child with her husband Benedict Cumberbatch.
[April 2014] Has played two villains named "Khan": Khan Noonien Singh in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and the voice of tiger Shere Khan in Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018).
Cumberbatch voiced several commercials for Jaguar cars.
Has mostly English ancestry, with small or distant amounts (to varying degrees) of Welsh, Scottish, Cornish, French, Swiss-French, Swedish, German and Dutch. In 2012, he won a Laurence Olivier Award, London Evening Standard Award and Critics' Circle Award for his performance in Danny Boyle's stage production Frankenstein (2011) at the Royal National Theatre wherein he played Victor Frankenstein and his Creature in alternating nights.
Sectoral heterochromia is where one eye has a spot (or sector) of different coloration; his right eye has a brown "freckle" of color that, while small, is typical of sectoral heterochromia. As of 2020, has appeared in five films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Atonement (2007), War Horse (2011), 12 Years a Slave (2013), The Imitation Game (2014) and 1917 (2019). In 2013, he was ranked fifth place in the "Most Fascinating People in Britain" list of Tatler magazine, ranking higher than the Duchess of Cambridge and just below Queen Elizabeth II. He then subsequently provided the voice of the physicist in "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking" (2010) and "Stephen Hawking's Grand Design" (2012) which both aired on Discovery Channel.
Coincidentally, Irene is Sophie Hunter, his wife's middle name. In March 2014, Cumberbatch was included in The Sunday Times' "100 Makers of the 21st Century" list citing him as the "next Sir Laurence Olivier". Lost a notable amount of weight for his role as Sherlock Holmes, his goal being to portray Holmes as a character with such high intelligence that it manifests itself in a physical, "mind-over-matter" sort of way. Cast member Karl Urban appeared in the last two Lord of the Rings films, while Cumberbatch appears in the prequel trilogy based on The Hobbit. His female fans were originally known as "Cumberbitches", but are now known as the "CumberCollective" or "Cumberpeople".
Cumberbatch and Alan Turing, who he portrays in The Imitation Game (2014) are actually related in real-life.