Benedict Cumberbatch is a famous actor from Great Britain, who is remembered by viewers for his vivid roles as Sherlock Holmes (the Sherlock series), and in the films Star Trek: Into Darkness, Thor: Ragnarok, etc. Benedict has a bright and memorable appearance and strong acting charisma. He has many awards in the field of cinematography, thanks to which the children of Benedict Cumberatch can rightfully be proud of him as a father.
Biography
Future actor Benedict Cumberbatch was born on July 19, 1976 in London. It is noteworthy that he is a direct descendant of King Edward III of Great Britain. Since childhood, Benedict Cumberbatch loved performing in public and enjoyed acting. At school, this led to him often playing various roles at school events.
The love for acting also determined the corresponding choice of specialty: Benedict Cumberbatch began professionally studying acting at the University of Manchester. After this, he began a theatrical career, which he pursued for more than ten years, successfully combining it with television activities.
But Benedict gained worldwide fame in the field of cinema, which he began working professionally in 2006. Many cinema analysts claim that Benedict Cumberbatch has not yet played his most important role and his acting career is just approaching its apogee.
New wife
Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter dated for several years, and in 2015 they decided to legalize their relationship. The couple has three children, the youngest of whom was born relatively recently. The addition to the family was the reason for the start of an active discussion.
One user registered on social networks under the Tumblr nickname began discussing the actor’s life and tried to dispute the fact that Benedict married for love. He believes that this is just an attempt to promote himself. In addition, the blogger believes that the couple does not have a third child. His theory was supported by the entire Internet community, and the published post gained more than 1,000 subscribers in just a few days. Tumblr isn't the only one who thinks that getting married and having a baby is a PR stunt for Benedict Cumberbatch. This theory has been discussed for quite some time on social networks, blogs and forums.
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Personal life
Benedict Cumberbatch himself prefers not to advertise everything that makes up his personal life. At one time, the yellow press ranked him among a group of people with a not entirely traditional orientation.
In 2014, during the filming of The Imitation Game, the tabloid press promoted his allegedly developing romance with co-star Keira Knightley. But this, again, was only rumors in the yellow press, especially since by that time Benedict already had close ties with his future wife, director Sophie Hunter, with whom he married the following year on February 14, Valentine’s Day.
At the time of the wedding, Benedict Cumberbatch's wife was already pregnant.
Cumberbatch's wedding
Recently, the actor was literally torn between filming - Benedict had just started working on the next season of Sherlock, and award ceremonies, and, despite being so busy, he found time not only for a novel, but also to have a wedding .
However, shortly before the announcement of the engagement, Cumberbatch publicly announced that he was not going to get married yet, despite Sophie’s pregnancy, but then suddenly changed his mind.
Perhaps the bride insisted on the wedding because she did not want their first-born to be born out of legal wedlock.
The celebration took place on Valentine's Day in an ancient estate on the Isle of Wight, but only invited guests were able to get to the wedding, and for everyone else the path was blocked by specially hired security. After the wedding in the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, at which the father of the groom, according to ancient tradition, addressed the newlyweds with a solemn speech, and the choir sang several hymns, the whole ceremony proceeded to the castle, where laid tables awaited the guests.
In the photo: Cumberbatch and Hunter's wedding
Everything was furnished beautifully and romantically and left the most pleasant memories not only for the newlyweds, but also for everyone present at the wedding.
But Sophie and Benedict were deprived of their honeymoon - almost immediately after the wedding they went to prepare for the Oscar ceremony.
Benedict Cumberbatch and his children
On July 1, 2015, Benedict Cumberbatch and his wife welcomed their first son, Christopher Carlton. It must be said that for the actor, the first-born was a long-awaited child, because previously he had expressed in the press more than once that he would like to have children. After all, Benedict’s age at that time was already approaching his fourth decade.
However, the fact of his wife’s pregnancy and for some time after the birth of his first son, the actor, with the secrecy that is characteristic of one of his characters, hid the birth of the child.
A year after the birth of the child, his wife made Benedict happy for the second time - their son was named after the prince - Hal Alden. Both children are growing up healthy, photos of Benedict Cumberbatch's children are freely available on the Internet.
Thus, at the moment the actor is a happy father of two sons.
More recently, it became known that Cumberbatch’s wife is expecting a third child, but according to a tradition already established in the family, the father does not make his gender and planned date of birth public. Benedict Cumberbatch continues to live in London with his children and wife and is starring in colorful films that will soon be released.
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Benedict Cumberbatch's wife
Benedict Cumberbatch is a popular actor with a worldwide reputation. The most famous role is Sherlock Holmes, where he showed his hero from a completely different side. Many people know him now; the actor has about two and a half dozen roles not only in plays, but also in films.
Benedict Cumberbatch
He graduated from the London Academy of Dramatic and Musical Arts, but his popularity came after he played in a play called Frankenstein, as well as in the film Sherlock Holmes. He grew up in an ordinary family, but later realized that he was hungry for career growth and began acting in films.
The actor’s personal life is also busy. He recently met a young and promising actress named Sophie Hunter, and dated her for a year. A month before the wedding ceremony, the actor announced such a sensitive and joyful event to the public. It is worth noting that in Hollywood it is not customary to make such decisions so quickly, and even more so to get married a year after meeting, especially at a time when awards are pouring in one after another and it is dangerous to give up your career.
Cumberbatch with his wife
The celebration took place on Valentine's Day. After the wedding, everyone realized that there would be an addition to the newly made family. The actor said that he was going to leave his career for a while and become a good father for his child. The 38-year-old Briton has been preparing for such an event for a long time and believes that he will make a wonderful father.
And now a joyful event took place. Benedict Cumberbatch, whose wife is an equally stunning actress named Sophie Hunter, became parents. An heir was born, in whom the actor dotes. The couple did not appear in public for a long time, as they were busy spending time with their baby, but they soon decided that seclusion was not for them and went to Kensington Gardens for one of the regular parties.
Benedict and Sophie
The actor did not hide his happiness and did not leave a single step from his wife, who also glowed like an angel with the joy of motherhood. Despite the sleepless nights, she looked cheerful and joyful. She was dressed in a stylish and flared blue dress and it was immediately noticeable that she quickly regained her previous shape after giving birth, as she looked very slim and thinner three weeks after the baby was born. Many journalists note the actress’s extreme slimness and thinness, since before giving birth she was more curvaceous.
Now the couple lives in a large mansion in perfect harmony, devoting a lot of time to the long-awaited and desired child.
Benedict and his wife
Benedict Cumberbatch became a father: details of the event
The first to inform the world about the addition to the newly created family was the foreign publication Vanity Fair. On Sunday, an entry appeared on the main Internet page of this magazine that the above-mentioned couple had a boy. Benedict and Sofia also asked their fans to be understanding of their situation and not to bother them in the next few weeks.
Unfortunately, the couple did not disclose any more interesting details. Moreover, some publications claim that even the date of birth remains a mystery. But anyone who closely follows the lovers’ relationship is unlikely to be surprised, because they have not previously pleased the public with the details of their personal lives. Let's tell you how it all began.
Who is this woman?
He got married on a romantic day, February 14, 2015. At the time of the wedding, the newlyweds had known each other for 6 years. Benedict's wife was actress, director and playwright Sophie Hunter , who comes from a respectable English family. Sophie's grandfather, the Queen's aide-de-camp Sir James Mac Glow, worked for Queen Elizabeth II's security detail in Scotland.
Sophie Hunter has a degree in French and Italian from Oxford University. Having received a solid education, Sophie decided to pursue what had always interested her - theater and cinema.
Sophie attended the Jacques Lecoq Theater School in Paris, then continued her studies at the Saratoga International Theater School in New York.
Sophie became known to the public from the series “Great Performances”, “Macbeth” and “The Curse of Steptoe”. As a director, she staged the opera The Rape of Lucretia in New York in 2011. As well as the opera “The Magic Flute” based on the works of Mozart.
Sophie Hunter has also worked successfully as a playwright: in 2007 she received the prestigious Samuel Beckett Award for writing and directing the avant-garde play The Terrific Electric.
How are things really going?
It's no secret that Cumberbatch and Hunter got married in 2015. She was already pregnant then, which she told the public at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
At this event, the actors were separately, and the news of Sophie's pregnancy caused great surprise to Benedict. A month later the couple got married. Despite the fact that the couple live happily, their relationship has always been considered “showmanship.”
The second child was born in March 2021, and in 2018 information about a third pregnancy appeared. The problem is that Cumberbatch and Hunter are not very willing to share their personal lives, so no one has seen the third child, which creates the ground for the spread of rumors.
Love story and wedding
Benedict and Sophie met on the set of the film Burlesque Tales in 2009. But whether their romance began at that moment is unknown. The lovers carefully hid their relationship. The couple came to the restaurant separately, and the press was able to catch them only at the Roland Garos Cup in 2014.
Benedict Cambeebatch's personal life before his marriage to Sophie Hunter was not very wild. The actor had a 12-year romance with a little-known actress Olivia Poulet, who left him, not wanting to put up with unexpectedly high-profile fame.
The actor experienced the breakup painfully; it was during this period that he had one after another novels: Liv Tyler, Alice Eve, Russian model Katya Elizarova. Benedict clearly did not like the life of a lightweight playboy. After all, in his soul he still strived to find true love and create a family.
“A woman should not put everything she has on display in order to appear sexy. A woman must be smart, and with the help of her own mind make me feel smart, then she is sexy,” was Benedict’s intricate demand for a potential chosen one. Sophie possessed this quality, and apparently some other set of qualities.
English restraint, natural aristocracy, and the ability to follow traditions prompted Benedict Cumberbatch to propose.
Cumberbatch even gave the traditional announcement in a special section of the ancient British newspaper The Times: “Benedict, son of Wanda and Timothy Cumberbatch of London, and Sophie, daughter of Catherine Hunter of Edinburgh and Charles Hunter of London, announce their engagement.” Benedict explained that even if he were not famous, he would have done the same. This is just a tribute to tradition.
