Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch CBE is an actor from the United Kingdom. He has garnered numerous awards over his career, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a British Academy Television Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award, for his performances on stage and television.

What is the Net Worth of Benedict Cumberbatch?

Benedict Cumberbatch is a British actor with a $40 million dollar net worth. He began his professional acting career in 2000 and has never looked back. He is best known for his roles as Sherlock Holmes in the BBC series “Sherlock” and in the films “The Other Boleyn Girl,” “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” and “The Other Boleyn Girl.”

Early Life:

Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born in Hammersmith, London, England, on July 19, 1976, and grew up in an acting household. Cumberbatch began attending boarding schools when he was eight years old, first at Brambletye School in West Sussex. On an Arts scholarship, he went on to the famed Harrow School, where he was part in numerous Shakespearean productions. When he was 12, he made his acting debut in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. Cumberbatch took a gap year before college to serve at a Tibetan monastery in India as an English teacher. He subsequently moved on to the University of Manchester, where he studied in Drama and graduated with honors. He then went on to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art to further his education.

Personal Life:

After blowing a tire, Cumberbatch and his two pals Theo and Denise Black were kidnapped in South Africa. A group of locals held them at gunpoint before loading them into a vehicle and driving them into uncharted area. They were listening to Radiohead’s “How to Disappear Completely” when the tire exploded. Cumberbatch has remarked that the song now gives him a “feeling of realism and a reason for hope” whenever he hears it.

In February 2015, Cumberbatch married opera director Sophie Hunter. They’d known one other for 17 years. Christopher Carlton (b. 2015) and Hal Audren are their two sons (b. 2017).

Cumberbatch’s Charity Work:

The Prince’s Trust has appointed Cumberbatch as an ambassador. Odd Arts, Anno’s Africa, and Dramatic Need are among the groups he sponsors that use the arts to help poor young people. Since portraying Stephen Hawking in 2004, he has become an advocate for the Motor Neuron Disease Association. Cumberbatch gives artwork to The Willow Foundation and the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, as well as other organizations and fundraisers.

In May 2014, he attended a cancer awareness fundraising gala at Windsor Castle with Prince William and Ralph Lauren to benefit the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. In 2014, he posed with photographer Jason Bell at a Pall Mall display in London to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the “Give up Clothes for Good” charity campaign. Cumberbatch is also a founder member of the “Save Soho” movement, which strives to conserve renowned music and performing arts venues in Soho and has generated $17 million for Cancer Research UK.

He’s also starred in a video campaign to support Save the Children’s objective of assisting young Syrian refugees. Cumberbatch was one of the signatories to an open letter in The Guardian criticizing the government’s handling of the refugee situation. Cumberbatch was awarded the CBE by the Queen on November 10, 2015 at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace for his contributions to the performing arts and philanthropy. In 2016, he was named a visiting fellow at Oxford University’s Lady Margaret Hall.

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