Benedict Cumberbatch was born on July 19, 1976, in Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital, London to Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham. Benedict Cumberbatch attended Brambletye School in West Sussex and was an arts scholar at Harrow School.

Benedict Cumberbatch was involved in numerous Shakespearean works at school and made his acting debut as Titania, Queen of the Fairies, in a Midsummer Night’s Dream when he was 12.

Benedict Cumberbatch has received various accolades throughout his career, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a British Academy Television Award and a Laurence Olivier Award.

Benedict Cumberbatch won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for Frankenstein and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for Sherlock and in 2015, he was appointed a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II.

Benedict Cumberbatch Children

Meet Hal Auden Cumberbatch, Christopher Carlton Cumberbatch, And Finn Cumberbatch. Hal Auden Cumberbatch was born on March 3rd, 2017, only a few years after his older brother. The Cumberbatch family’s secondborn is named after a Shakespearean character and an American poet.

The first Hunter-Cumberbatch child, Christopher Carlton Cumberbatch, fondly known as “Kit,” was born on June 1, 2015, shortly after the couple married. Their last child who is two years old was born on January 11, 2019.