But with plenty of major characters to his name, there’s one particularly controversial one Cumberbatch would never play again, and he had to ‘apologise a lot for’. And for fans, it’s one you might ...

Written for a non-specialist audience, Hawking’s A Brief History of Time is the very definition of a smash-hit science book. It may be a joke (repeated by Hawking himself in h2g2) that it’s ...

Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange ... He also got questioned about playing Stephen Hawking in the 2004 TV movie Hawking. "He was dubious about it," Cumberbatch said about of the famous cosmologist.