There are very few actors in the world right now as hot as Benedict Cumberbatch. Not hot in the dreamy sense, though there are plenty who would also applaud that description, but his career has taken off beyond all recognition in the last few years and looks set to climb another rung or two yet. The career-making role of Sherlock Holmes in the classy BBC series helped transform Cumberbatch from jobbing actor to international superstar, and he has stayed in the limelight via roles in critically acclaimed films like 12 Years a Slave and blockbusters including Star Trek Into Darkness and The Hobbit movies. And if that werent enough, Cumberbatch is apparently on the verge of signing on to play Dr. Stephen Strange in forthcoming Marvel movie Doctor Strange. If that ends up happening, the Brit will likely become a permanent fixture on the Hollywood A-list. Cumberbatch has made headlines this week by formally announcing his engagement to actress and theatre director Sophie Hunter, and it really was formally the announcement was made via a modest engagement notice in The Times newspaper. There will be more headlines to come, regardless of whether or not the Doctor Strange rumours prove well founded, and the actor will no doubt hope to hear his name mentioned when the 2015 Oscar nominations are announced in a couple of months time. Next week sees the general release of The Imitation Game, in which Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing, the brilliant but persecuted mathematician who became the father of modern computing and artificial intelligence via pioneering code breaking that helped the Allies win World War II. Cumberbatchs performance has drawn rave reviews and prompted Best Actor buzz, but even if he is overlooked at the Oscars, his talents are such that awards recognition at some point is surely inevitable. Think you know all there is to know about Benedict Cumberbatch? Click away and find out.
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