10 Things You Didn’t Know About Benedict Cumberbatch
10. He Was A Promising Academic
If youre going to do a convincing job of portraying savant super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes, theres a reasonable chance youre already possessed of an above-average intellect. So it would seem as regards Benedict Cumberbatch, who as a boy attended the prestigious independent boarding school Harrow in northwest London. Although he hasnt explicitly confirmed the GCSE results he achieved at the age of 16, his comments indicate that they were on the decent side: I did sort of blow my GCSEs out of the water. I couldnt believe it and neither could my teachers. And then there was a lot of pressure on me to achieve an Oxbridge level of brilliance at A-levels. Although Cumberbatch didnt exactly make good on his adolescent promise, at least he had a decent excuse. The actor commented that his A-level grades were severely compromised when he discovered girls, pot and all sorts of other things, but Cumberbatch redeemed himself by earning a degree in Drama at the University of Manchester and graduating from the illustrious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) with a Masters in Classical Acting. So Cumberbatch might not be the equal of Sherlock Holmes in the brainiac stakes, but he might just prove too much for you to handle in a game of Scrabble.
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