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He was born on July 19 of 1976 in London, England and was born into a family with two famous actor parents. (Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham) They were both his main inspirations to start acting.
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Cumberbatch attended Brambletye School and Harrow School. This school's goal was to have their students have a sense of strength and nobility. They worked on making them outstanding role models.
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while he was at Harrow he was on an art scholarship and would paint. This was also were he started his acting before heading to big stages. -
The Gulf War: Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990, which led to the Gulf War.
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After finishing school he decided to take off a year and volunteer as an english teacher in a Tibetan monastery in Darjeeling, India.
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After his year hiatus he came back to study Drama at Manchester University. Which also inspired him to continue to do acting and where he realized the impact of storytelling.
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By the time he had all his studies and accomplishments done he already had an agent!
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He continued his training as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art graduating with an M.A. in Classical Acting
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On September 11, 2001 terrorist hijacked two planes and crashed into the twin towers.
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His theatre career started in 2001, playing George Tesman in Hedda Gabler at the Almeida Theatre.
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This later transferred to the Duke’s of York’s Theatre in 2005, with Cumberbatch reprising the role.
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He first performed for the New Shakespeare Company at Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park for two seasons.
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He was elected as the 44th president of the United States.
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He also acted in Danny Boyle’s charity theatre event The Children’s Monologues at the Old Vic Theatre.
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In 2010, Cumberbatch starred in Terence Rattigan’s revival of After the Dance at the National Theatre.
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He is also very well known because if this series he has been working on since 2010-2017.
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During his performance in Frankenstein at the National Theatre, he played both Victor Frankenstein and his creature on alternate nights opposite Jonny Lee Miller, which was later broadcast in cinemas as part of National Theatre Live.
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He played William Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre.
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they first met in the Power of the Dog while starring alongside him in 2009's Burlesque Fairytales. Then ended up having a surprise ceremony in 2015. Also side note during this film he was said to have poisioning (Nicotine) .
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The couple announced that they were expecting a child a month after their surprise ceremony. With their first being born on June 1, 2016.
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He received the Olivier Award for Best Actor
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In 2016, he started to play a role of Dr. Strange for the Marvel universe.
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After Obama had served his two presidential terms the newest elected president was Trump.
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The couple announced they were expecting again during October of 2016 and being born on March 3, 2017.
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They celebrated their third child during 2019.Not much is known about his kids or them because Cumberbatch isn't too fond of having his children in they eye of the public view.
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As of now one of his most recent films is Poison. He plays a guy called Harry pope.
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He goes ont Letters live to read Alexei Navalny's final letterss. Alexei wrote these weeks before paying the price of his beliefs. He died in the West Siberian prision after years of going against corruption and near fatal posioning.
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