Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch CBE is an English actor and film producer who has performed in film, television, theatre and radio. The son of actors Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham, he graduated from the University of Manchester and continued his training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, obtaining a Master of Arts in Classical Acting. He first performed at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park in Shakespearean productions and has portrayed George Tesman in Richard Eyre's revival...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth19 July 1976
CityLondon, England
I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
I was very nervous about doing the Entertainment Weekly cover, because I thought, "Okay, this is the first taste, this is the first visual moment." By then I obviously knew a lot of the more iconic moments in his comic history, but still it's me. It's not a drawing, it's not an artist; it's me and I'm kinda frightened, but it seemed to go down.
Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
I'll always do 'Sherlock' - it's something I'm not going to give up on.
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
[Doctor Strange] is still quite cocky by the end of the film. No, I'd say the major curve for him is that he learns that it's not all about him, that there's a greater good. But what he thinks he was doing as a neurosurgeon, that was good because it benefitted people's health was really just a furtherment of his attempts to control death and control his own fate and other people's, but that's still driven by the ego.
We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
Look at you lot, you're all so vacant, is it nice not being me it must be so relaxing.
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.
I think there is some clear explanation of that within this film [Doctor Strange], but potentially further down the line...for more of that to come out as well.
I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
I've turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I've made social faux pas a plenty. I've put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.
I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It's more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.