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Benedict Cumberbatch

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Benedict Cumberbatch

Movie, Television and Stage Actor


Who is Benedict Cumberbatch?

Benedict Cumberbatch is a British movie, television and theater actor. He is probably best known for his role as Sherlock Holmes in the BBC and PBS co-produced television show Sherlock. Some of his more memorable movie roles include those in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), The Imitation Game (2014), and Marvel Comics’ Doctor Strange (2016).

Benedict Cumberbatch’s family tree has occasionally made headlines when it has been revealed that the actor has a family connection to a role such as his kinship to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author who created Sherlock Holmes) and Alan Turing (subject of The Imitation Game). The one connection for the British actor that apparently hasn’t been revealed until now is Benedict Cumberbatch’s American ancestor who descends from Mayflower passenger John Alden. With the 400th anniversary in 2020 of the Mayflower’s arrival in New England, perhaps the role of John Alden is in his future.

Famous Kin

Benedict Cumberbatch has significant royal and magna carta ancestry with descents from King Edward I and a number of Magna Carta sureties. Surprisingly, the British actor also has an American connection with a Mayflower descent from Mayflower passengers John Alden, Priscilla Mullins, and her parents. Some of Benedict Cumberbatch’s famous kin through his Mayflower connection include U.S. Presidents John Quincy Adams and Calvin Coolidge, Irish President Erskine Childers, American “Fireside” poets William Cullen Bryant and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author Emily Post, and fellow actors Orson Welles, Dick Van Dyke, Jodie Foster, and Raquel Welch.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Benedict Cumberbatch

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Michael Lookinland

TV Actor

17th cousin 2 times removed
via Elizabeth Fitzalan

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Michael Lookinland

TV Actor

20th cousin
via John de Mowbray

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Michael Lookinland

TV Actor

19th cousin
via Sir Edmund Ferrers

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Bob Moore

Co-Founder, Bob's Red Mill

21st cousin
via Sir Gilbert de Clare

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Bob Moore

Co-Founder, Bob's Red Mill

18th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Michael de la Pole

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Bob Moore

Co-Founder, Bob's Red Mill

14th cousin
via Sir William Waldegrave

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Diane Brewster

TV and Movie Actress

10th cousin 1 time removed
via John Alden

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

9th cousin 2 times removed
via John Alden

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

21st cousin
via Ralph de Stafford

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

18th cousin
via Sir Ralph Neville

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

16th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir John Fray

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

16th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Thomas Stanley

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

19th cousin
via Sir Edmund Ferrers

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DuBose Heyward

Author of Porgy (Porgy & Bess)

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Ralph de Stafford

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DuBose Heyward

Author of Porgy (Porgy & Bess)

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Hugh le Despencer

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DuBose Heyward

Author of Porgy (Porgy & Bess)

19th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir James le Boteler

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DuBose Heyward

Author of Porgy (Porgy & Bess)

16th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Thomas Blount

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DuBose Heyward

Author of Porgy (Porgy & Bess)

10th cousin 2 times removed
via Tyng

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DuBose Heyward

Author of Porgy (Porgy & Bess)

18th cousin 2 times removed
via Robert de Ferrers

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Henry P. Baldwin

15th Governor of Michigan

6th cousin 5 times removed
via John Alden

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Charles M. Dale

66th Governor of New Hampshire

8th cousin 3 times removed
via John Alden

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Nathaniel B. Baker

24th Governor of New Hampshire

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Simon Eyre

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Mary Winthrop Gooding

Prolific Mayflower Descendant

15th cousin 2 times removed
via Elizabeth Fitzalan

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Geena Davis

Movie and TV Actress

17th cousin 1 time removed
via Elizabeth Fitzalan

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Paul Giamatti

TV and Movie Actor

19th cousin
via Richard Fitzalan

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Benedict Cumberbatch photo by Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)