Benedict

 Benedict Cumberbatch, a British actor, has a net worth of over $40 million. Benedict Cumberbatch's professional acting career began in 2000, and has not diminished since. He is well-known for his performance in such film projects as "The Other Boleyn Girl", "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "Doctor Strange," "The Imitation Game," as well as in the hit BBC show, "Sherlock," in which he played the main character of Sherlock Holmes.Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born on July 19, 1976 in Hammersmith, London, England, and grew up in an actor's family. Cumberbatch attended boarding schools from when he was eight beginning with Brambletye School in West Sussex. After graduating from Brambletye College in West Sussex. Cumberbatch was a student at the highly regarded Harrow School where he participated in a variety of Shakespearean plays. His first performance as an actor was in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" when he was 12. Cumberbatch had a year of an in-between period before college, to become an English teacher in a Tibetan monastery. Then, he went on to graduate from the University of Manchester, where he majored in Drama. Then the following year, he was able to pursue studies at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.