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This may turn out to be a really long 一覧 but while it will include some interesting facts which I think are lesser-known, the general already widespread points such as his Heterochromia and S. Africa incident won't be mentioned! Hope あなた enjoy!!!

1. He has his own Production Company - SunnyMarch

2. Some of his お気に入り 映画 include - Ghostbusters, Annie Hall, 2001 宇宙 Odyssey, John Hughes Classic Movies.

3. He loves skydiving, his first jump was in Namibia.

4. If he had to choose a literary character to play, it would be Patrick Melrose によって Edward St. Aubyn.

5. He enjoys Marmite.

6. A few お気に入り songs -

i) MS によって Alt-J
ii) Strong によって ロンドン Grammar
iii) Pretty much all of Sigur Ros’ Valtari album
iv) One 日 Like This – Elbow
v) Fever to the Form – Nick Mulvey
vi) Two Fingers – Jake Bugg

7. Preferred choice of perfume - Guerlain Vetiver

8. Benedict also enjoys other extreme sports like scuba diving, skiing, hot-air ballooning and high-speed motorcycling.

9. Cumberbatch filmed his audition for 星, つ星 TREK INTO DARKNESS on his iPhone in a friend's kitchen.

10. On the famous Oscar Red Carpet Photobomb - “I didn’t do it because I needed the publicity…I did it to make my フレンズ laugh back ホーム and all of a sudden, it was on the news the 次 day!”

11. On working with Meryl Streep - “She’s an epoch defining actress…”

12. The first time he met Meryl Streep he 発言しました to her, “My parents are big ファン of your films…but I am too, that’s not a generational thing!”

13. Benedict lists many personal influences, from his parents to past school teachers and headmasters, to fellow actors he’s been able to work alongside with and others who he’s specifically looked up to. Including Tom Hiddleston.

14. He takes on ファン responses, but also tries not to let the wide opinion affect his portrayal of a character. (e.g. Sherlock)

15. He voiced Alan Rickman (as Professor Snape,) in an episode of The Simpsons in 2013.

16. He lives によって the rule, ”Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, ‘I’m possible’.”

17. He ate 4,000 calories per 日 to prepare for his part in 星, つ星 Trek: Into the Darkness.

18. He also deliberately ロスト weight for his role in Sherlock. He explained the reason was because he wanted to portray Holmes ”as a character with such high intelligence that it manifests itself in a physical, ‘mind over matter’ sort of way.”’

19. He’s also an audiobook reader, voicing among other things, Shakespeare works and Sherlock Holmes.

20. He’s also done voiceover work for Jaguar, Sony and Google+ adverts.

21. Benedict almost turned down the role of Sherlock Holmes, worrying that the remake would be ”cheap and cheesy”.

22. He learned how to play the violin in a week.

23. In 2013 his name was mentioned on Twitter almost a million times.

24. Benedict popped up in not one, not two, not three but four films nominated for awards at 2013’s Oscars - August: Osage County, 12 Years a Slave, 星, つ星 Trek Into Darkness and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

25. He’s been on Heartbeat twice.

26. He’s admitted that he gets very nervous and star-struck when he meets famous people. (See - Harrison Ford with him on Graham Norton!)

27. He in fact almost didn’t become an actor, after toying with the idea of training to become a lawyer.

28. Steven Spielberg has called him "the best Sherlock on screen."

29. He and Jonny Lee Miller are the only actors to ever jointly win the Olivier Best Actor award after they rotated the characters of Dr Frankenstein and the creature in a 2011 stage production of Frankenstein.

30. He’s a big ファン of American drama, citing The Wire, The West Wing, Mad Men and The Sopranos as his お気に入り TV shows.

31. He has a good 歌う voice and would 愛 to 星, つ星 in a musical.

32. If he wasn’t an actor, Benedict says he’d like to be a neurosurgeon.

33. He has four god-children.

34. His first 芝居 role was as a ”very bossy” Joseph in his school’s nativity play. He even pushed Mary off the stage because ‘she was taking too long’.

35. However, a few years later he took on the role of Titania, the クイーン of the Fairies, in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, aged 13 – and says this was his first proper role.

36. Benedict believes that having children would be his greatest achievement.

37. He’s donated hand-drawn self-portraits to charity. Twice.

38. In March 2014, Cumberbatch was included in The Sunday Times "100 Makers of the 21st Century" 一覧 citing him as the "next Sir Laurence Olivier."

39. Since portraying Stephen Hawking in 2004, he has been an active supporter and patron of Motor Neurone Disease Association.

40. His voice has been creatively described によって a journalist as a "Jaguar hiding in a cello". According to a film critic, his voice is "So sepulchrally resonant, that it could have been synthesized from the combined timbres of Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Alan Rickman holding an elocution contest down a well."

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