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10 de mar. de 2021 · Actor Benedict Cumberbatch is known for his deep voice and unique eyes. Here is what we know about why his eyes are so distinctive.
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7 de abr. de 2021 · It's not every day that you get to meet someone with stunning, different-colored eyes (also known as heterochromia). These beloved celebs all have beautiful and unexpected eye pigmentation.
3 de ago. de 2018 · Benedict Cumberbatch's eyes appear to shift from green to blue depending on the light. That's because they're a mix of both. Two photos of the "Doctor Strange" actor taken days apart in October...
- Benedict Cumberbatch Thinks His Name Sounds Like "A Fart in A bath."
- Benedict Cumberbatch Toyed with The Idea of Becoming A Lawyer.
- Benedict Cumberbatch's Parents on Sherlock Are Also His Parents in Real Life.
- Benedict Cumberbatch Spent A Year Teaching in India.
- Benedict Cumberbatch Was Kidnapped in South Africa.
- Benedict Cumberbatch Is Easily Starstruck.
- Ted Danson Was Really, Really Excited to Meet Benedict Cumberbatch.
- Benedict Cumberbatch Wasn't Immediately Sold on Playing Sherlock Holmes.
- Benedict Cumberbatch Is (Distantly) Related to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
- Benedict Cumberbatch Also Has A Family Link to Alan Turing.
There’s something very regal-sounding about a name like Benedict Cumberbatch, but it’s not one that necessarily rolls right off the tongue. The Washington Post once identified the actor as “Bandersnatch Cummerbund” (though later clarified that it was a joke). But there have been plenty of other mix-ups—like the time a television show ID'ed himas “B...
Though he grew up in a family of actors, Cumberbatch wasn’t always planning to live his life out in front of a camera. In fact, it was because of his parents’ chosen profession that they encouraged him to pursue a more stable calling, which led him to want to become a criminal lawyer. “[Acting is] a very odd, peripatetic, crazed, out of your contro...
Speaking of Cumberbatch’s parents: While both Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham are familiar faces as actors in their own right, fans of Sherlockmight also be quick to recognize them as Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes’s parents. In 2014, Cumberbatch toldthe Press Association that he was a little nervous about working with his parents, as “They’re Equit...
During a gap year, Cumberbatch decided to volunteer his time and teach English at a Tibetan monastery in Darjeeling, India. “I’d always been fascinated by the idea of meditation and what it meant,” he toldLion’s Roar. “In India, I went on a retreat with a lama—several days of incantation to clear and purify the mind—along with a dozen other people....
While filming the 2005 miniseries To the Ends of the Earth, Cumberbatch experienced another kind of epiphany when he nearly lost his life. The actor and two of his co-stars took a day off to learn how to scuba dive near Mozambique. On their way back from the outing, the actor explained, “The three of us were trying to change the tire. These six men...
When asked during a Reddit AMA whether he’s ever been starstruck while meeting or working with a fellow actor, Cumberbatch admitted that it happens all the time: “Uhhhhhhhh. Every time I've met someone famous who I've been in the audience of,” he said. “I have the same butterflies and inability to be cool. I approach them as a fellow member of the ...
While Cumberbatch may get nervous every time he meets an acting hero, one well-known actor who was pretty excited to meet Cumberbatch was Cheers star Ted Danson. When asked during a Reddit AMAto share the “weirdest encounter you've had with a fan,” Cumberbatch answered: “Ted Danson at a pre-Oscar party screaming across a floor of people like Leonar...
Though playing the titular “consulting detective” in Sherlock is the role that brought Cumberbatch global recognition, saying yes to the part wasn’t exactly a no-brainer for the actor. While speaking at a BAFTA event in 2014, Cumberbatch admitted that he was actually a little hesitant to sign on for the project. “I heard about it and thought that s...
It turns out that Sherlock Holmes may have been the role Cumberbatch was born to play. In 2017, researchers at Ancestry.com made the rather fascinating discoverythat Cumberbatch and Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are sixteenth cousins, twice removed. The ancestral link between the two is former Duke of Lancaster John of Gaunt, who w...
Amazingly, the Conan Doyle connection wasn’t the first time Cumberbatch’s ancestry was linked to one of his characters. In 2014, the same team of researchers determined that Cumberbatch was the 17th cousin of Alan Turing, the computer scientist/codebreaker he played in Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game(2014)—a role that earned Cumberbatch an Oscar...
Henry Sugar is the pseudonym of a bachelor who uses his inherited fortune to fund his gambling habits. One day, he comes across a book of a doctor's report of Imdad Khan, a man who claimed he could see and interact without using his eyes.
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch CBE (born 19 July 1976) is an English actor. Known for his work on screen and stage, he has received various accolades, including a BAFTA TV Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Laurence Olivier Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and four Golden Globes.
1 de nov. de 2014 · Benedict's specific condition is known as sectoral heterochromia and is responsible for how his eyes seem to change from green to blue, depending on the light.
