Benedict Cumberbatch is having quite a year. ... Alan Turing helped defeat Nazi Germany during WWII, but then was arrested in the 1950s for being gay and was forced to undergo estrogen injections.

Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in "The Imitation Game." Weinstein Company "Absolutely. I mean, he really did. But he also understood that ...

Benedict Cumberbatch is one of the most versatile actors of modern cinema. Call him Sherlock, Strange, Smaug, or Turing—he ...

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As the acknowledged grandfather of artificial intelligence, Turing helped create the modern-day computer. Even more important, his preternatural puzzle-solving and mathematical skills helped the ...

Alan Turing was one of the greatest minds of the 20th century and for years, decades even, only a handful of people knew what he did.But word has gotten out more recently about how the Cambridge-ed… ...

Get a first look at Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, computer scientist, mathematician, father of artificial intelligence and the person who cracked the German Enigma code. The Imitation Game ...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 13 (UPI) --Benedict Cumberbatch shares a common ancestor with Alan Turing.The 38-year-old actor and WWII codebreaker are 17th cousins, according to researchers at genealogy ...

Benedict Cumberbatch cannot walk through a lobby without spotting himself on a magazine cover. He says so himself. “It’s absurd and it’s so surreal. I just passed a newsstand and went ...

The official trailer for The Imitation Game was released on Monday, showcasing Cumberbatch’s incredibly skilful and convincing portrayal of Turing. We were actually on the edge of our seat while ...

Codebreaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing has been chosen as the face of Britain’s new 50 pound note, the Bank of England announced Monday. Governor Mark Carney said Turing, who did groun… ...

Cumberbatch is even better as Turing, driven and utterly single-minded and yet always with a little-boy-lost quality about him. Boffins make tricky leading men. They are poor communicators.