Cumberbatch’s parents are actors, and he recounted the experience of being backstage when very young, watching his mother, Wanda Ventham, step onstage “and stop being my mum.” ...

It seems Benedict Cumberbatch was always destined for the spotlight. Being raised by two actors (Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham), Cumberbatch was all too familiar with the hectic, and often ...

“He was quite lively growing up, but I thought that was phenomenal,” Cumberbatch’s mother Wanda Ventham told the Guardian. She urged critics to declare her son, “a bloody good Hamlet.” ...

Cumberbatch’s parents, Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham, are both actors who worked steadily in British TV and theater when he was a child, and they played his parents in some episodes of Sherlock.

Mike Marsland/WireImage On the broader topic of family, Cumberbatch says he learned the most valuable life and parenting skills from his parents, actors Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham.

Cumberbatch’s Dr. Stephen Strange and Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff are superhero sorcerers with very different priorities after a portal to other dimensions was mistakenly opened.

Benedict Cumberbatch returns for “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness," one of the most anticipated sequels in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Cumberbatch grew up with professional-actor parents, Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton. Both his parents portrayed their son’s onscreen parents in the British hit series Sherlock, in which ...

Actor Benedict Cumberbatch’s character, Dr. Strange, was cut from the “WandaVision” finale because Marvel executives didn’t want a “white guy” saving the day.

Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange Was Cut from 'WandaVision' Finale: 'It Would Have Taken Away' "It would have taken away from Wanda, which is what we didn't want to do," said Marvel Studios ...

The story of WandaVision‘s main character, Wanda Maximoff, a.k.a. the Scarlet Witch (played by Elizabeth Olsen), is set to continue in 2022’s Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, but the ...

Benedict Cumberbatch almost appeared in the 'WandaVision' finale, but his Dr. Strange character was written out later in the process.