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Born 19 July 1976. His most acclaimed roles include Stephen Hawking in the BBC drama Hawking (2004); William Pitt in the historical film Amazing Grace (2006); protagonist Stephen Ezard in the miniseries thriller The Last Enemy (2008); Paul Marshall in Atonement (2007); Bernard in Small Island (2009); and Sherlock Holmes in the modern BBC adaptation series Sherlock (2010).

In February 2011, he began playing both Victor Frankenstein and his creature opposite Jonny Lee Miller in Danny Boyle's stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The play had a three-month run at the Royal National Theatre. In late 2011, he played Major Stewart in Steven Spielberg's War Horse (2011). He also played Peter Guillam, one of the pivotal roles in Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011).

He reprised the role of Sherlock Holmes in the second series of the BBC's Sherlock, which aired in the United Kingdom in January 2012 and was broadcast on PBS in the United States in May 2012. He also stars as Christopher Tietjens in the BBC/HBO co-production television miniseries Parade's End, which first aired August 2012. He portrayed Smaug the Dragon through voice and motion capture and also provided the motion capture for the Necromancer in Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" trilogy (2012).

He also portrayed the main antagonist, John Harrison, in J. J. Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness, released in May 2013, and played WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate, released in November 2013. He portrayed Alan Turing in the biopic The Imitation Game released in 2014 for which he earned a golden globe nomination. He will also play Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre in London in August 2015. He has played the main role in Doctor Strange which was a commercial hit and is currently starring in the fourth series of Sherlock. He has also begun to shoot The Current War with Tom Holland. [x]
Cumberbatch is married to theatre and opera director Sophie Hunter. Their engagement was announced in the "Forthcoming Marriages" section of The Times on 5 November 2014, after a 17-year friendship. On 14 February 2015, the couple married at the 12th century Church of St. Peter and St. Paul on the Isle of Wight followed by a reception at Mottistone Manor.[100] They have a son, Christopher Carlton (b. 2015).

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