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Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born on 19 July 1976 [2] at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in the London district of Hammersmith, [3] to actors Timothy Carlton (born Timothy Carlton Congdon Cumberbatch) and Wanda Ventham. [4] He grew up in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea. He has a half-sister, Tracy Peacock, from his ...
Benedict Cumberbatch has received various accolades throughout his career, including a British Academy Television Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award and a Laurence Olivier Award. He won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for playing the title role in the five-part drama miniseries Patrick Melrose.
Carlton was born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, the son of Pauline Ellen Laing (née Congdon), who died on 11 October 2007, and Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, a decorated naval officer of both World Wars and a prominent figure of London high society. His grandfather, Henry Arnold Cumberbatch CMG, was the Consul General of Queen Victoria in Turkey.
Campion thinks genetics are at play, noting that Cumberbatch’s parents, Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton, both had long careers on stage and screen. “He’s the next evolution in performing ...
The actor was abducted, along with his friends, in South Africa.
Benedict Cumberbatch is a British actor whose versatile career allows him to go seamlessly from drama to fantasy to mystery to sci-fi to eventually becoming a fixture in the Marvel Cinematic ...
Wanda Ventham (born 5 August 1935) is an English actress with many roles on British television since beginning her career in the 1950s.. Ventham played Colonel Virginia Lake in the 1970s science-fiction television series UFO and had a recurring role as Cassandra Trotter's mother Pamela Parry in the sitcom Only Fools and Horses between 1989 and 1992.
Benedict Cumberbatch, the beloved actor behind Marvel’s Doctor Strange, revealed that being abducted by six men while filming in South Africa more than 20 years ago, continues to haunt him.