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Benedict Cumberbatch has won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for the Sherlock episode His Last Vow, a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor for Patrick Melrose, and a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in Frankenstein at the Royal National Theatre in 2011. He also achieved the Triple Crown of London Theatre that year, adding the Evening Standard Award and the Critics' Circle Theatre Award.
Benedict Cumberbatch played Sherlock Holmes in the joint BBC and PBS television series Sherlock, which ran from 2010 to 2017. The role brought him international recognition and won him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.
Benedict Cumberbatch attended Brambletye, a prep school near East Grinstead in West Sussex, from the age of eight. He then studied as an arts scholar at Harrow School, where he joined the Rattigan Society drama club. He later studied drama at the Victoria University of Manchester and graduated with a Master of Arts in classical acting from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Benedict Cumberbatch plays Doctor Stephen Strange in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He first appeared in the eponymous Doctor Strange in November 2016 and has reprised the role in Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Thor: Ragnarok, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. He is set to appear as the character in Avengers: Doomsday in 2026 and Avengers: Secret Wars in 2027.
Yes, Benedict Cumberbatch received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for playing British cryptographer Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, released in November 2014. He also received Golden Globe, BAFTA, and SAG Award nominations for the same role. He received a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for The Power of the Dog in 2021.
In 1728, Benedict Cumberbatch's seventh-great-grandfather, Abraham Cumberbatch of Saint Andrew, Barbados, acquired properties on the island that used enslaved people for labour. The Cleland plantation, which enslaved 250 people, was the main source of the Cumberbatch family's wealth, making them one of the richest families in Britain at the time. His great-great-great-grandfather Abraham Parry Cumberbatch received £5,388 in slave compensation under the Slave Compensation Act 1837. Benedict Cumberbatch has said that by the time of his birth, most of that money had run out.