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Friday 27 December, 2024
Friday 27 December, 2024
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Benedict Cumberbatch is apparently related to the man he plays in The Imitation Game
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH IS currently busy promoting his new film The Imitation Game in which he portrays codebreaker Alan Turing.
Now genealogists have discovered that Cumberbatch is actually distantly related to Alan Turing. Say what?
According to Ancestry, Cumberbatch and Turing are 17th cousins and share a common ancestor in Earl of Somerset John Beaufort, born in 1373. (Fancy.)
Bit tenuous, but an interesting coincidence nonetheless.
Of the discovery, Ancestry had this to say.
That statement seems a tad much, but we won’t fight it.
In another random connection, the website also discovered that Cumberbatch is a sixth cousin of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.
There you are now.
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