Benedict Cumberbatch announces engagement in newspaper ad | Inquirer Entertainment

Benedict Cumberbatch announces engagement in newspaper ad

/ 01:19 PM November 06, 2014

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Actor Benedict Cumberbatch. AP FILE PHOTO

LONDON — British actor Benedict Cumberbatch announced his engagement the old-fashioned way on Wednesday — by placing a notice in The Times newspaper.

The 38-year-old star of “Sherlock” and “The Imitation Game” is to marry British theater director Sophie Hunter, 36. The couple have reportedly been dating for several months.

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The notice said simply: “The engagement is announced between Benedict, son of Wanda and Timothy Cumberbatch of London, and Sophie, daughter of Katharine Hunter of Edinburgh and Charles Hunter of London.”

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Cumberbatch is one of Britain’s most successful actors, known for playing complicated but brilliant figures such as super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes and computing pioneer Alan Turing.

The announcement threatens to break the hearts of many of his devoted fans, who are known as “Cumberbitches.”

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The Times’s Births, Marriages and Deaths is the traditional place for well-connected Britons to announce key milestones in family life.

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But it is rare for such a high-profile celebrity to announce their engagement in such a way rather than through a publicist’s press release.

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