Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch (born July 19, 1976, Hammersmith, United Kingdom), aged 50, is an English actor. Notable films include Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War and 12 Years a Slave. Cumberbatch's honours include Order of the British Empire, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie and Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Benedict Cumberbatch’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Benedict
Benedict Cumberbatch’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Benedict in the U.S.?
#814
US rank in 2025
~10,475
Americans share it since 1882
2025
its peak year
In 1976, 45 American boys were registered Benedict — 1,320th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Benedict’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
1
Soul Urge · independence
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on B (2) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Benedict’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1976, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Benedict apart
The Satellite Award for Best Actor, Miniseries or Television Film came in 2012, when Benedict Cumberbatch was 36.
The schooling ran through University of Manchester and Victoria University of Manchester.
Benedict Cumberbatch was 25 when the work began in 2001.
The family line: born to Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton, married Sophie Irene Hunter and raised one child.
On Wikipedia the categories read Cumberbatch family, Buddhist feminists and Alumni of the Victoria University of Manchester.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921) and Jared Padalecki (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Manchester, Victoria University of Manchester and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
- Awards
- Satellite Award for Best Actor, Miniseries or Television Film (2012), Critics' Choice Television Award (2012) and British Academy Television Award for Best Actor (2019)
- Nominated for
- British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor and British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 2001
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 89
What the chart says
Benedict, according to the stars
Core essence
Benedict feels the room before entering it. The core of Benedict is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Benedict, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Benedict wants to be loved
Benedict wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Benedict openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Benedict creates
How Benedict makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Benedict creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Benedict is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Benedict is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Benedict channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Benedict's birth date. Working below.
Where Benedict sits
Six lines
Benedict’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Benedict Cumberbatch
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hammersmith on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Hammersmith that night
Computed for 51.49°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Hammersmith was Edasich, in Draco, 81.6° up.
Of the 86 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
At 51.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Hammersmith at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun -1° below the horizon, Moon down and 45% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Hammersmith, United Kingdom
- Lives in
- London
Wikidata records London as Benedict Cumberbatch's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Benedict Cumberbatch: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Benedict's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Sun · A leaning bowl
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Benedict Cumberbatch's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 19, 1976, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Dragon
Fire DragonConfident before the proof.
Benedict Cumberbatch was born on July 19, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Benedict Cumberbatch's birth date, July 19, 1976, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Benedict’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Benedict Cumberbatch's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Benedict Cumberbatch combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
Benedict’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 4° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb
Benedict’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.7° to 2.8° orb
Benedict’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsextileJupiter1.0° to 1.8° orb
Benedict’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableVenussquareUranus1.8° to 3.1° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus2.1° to 2.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn2.9° to 4.9° orb
stableVenussextilePluto3.1° to 4.3° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune3.6° to 4.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.7° to 4.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.9° to 5.0° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.9° to 4.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Benedict’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 1°48′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 0°15′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 13°39′ (moves 0.83° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 2°44′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 29°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Uranus 0.3°
- Chiron square Mercury 0.5°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 1.1°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 1.4°
- Eros opposition Neptune 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 2.5°
- Ceres square Uranus 2.8°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 2.8°
Benedict’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 5 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Benedict’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
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Fellow Cancer suns
- Kristen BellAmerican actress
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- Courtney LoveAmerican rock musician
Born in Dragon years
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Also born on July 19
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow1921
- Jared Padalecki1982
- Jon Jones1987
- Howard Schultz1953
- Karl Jacobs1998
- Fred Again1993
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Nikki ReedAmerican actress
- Dave FrancoAmerican actor
- Doutzen KroesDutch fashion model
Other Cancer Dragon charts
- Jay WardAmerican football player (born 2000)
- LiaSouth Korean singer, born 2000
- Isaac JonesAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- DeAndre JordanAmerican basketball player (born 1988)
Other Tidal Pioneers
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- Hailey BieberAmerican model and television personality
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Famous people with Life Path 4
- Lourdes LeonAmerican singer, dancer, and fashion model
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Benedict’s cards
Computed from July 19, 1976. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmperorAsterNym identity card
The Tidal PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
4 · Architect☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Benedict’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q244674 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Benedict Cumberbatch at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Benedict Cumberbatch.
Quick answers about Benedict Cumberbatch’s chart
- How old is Benedict Cumberbatch?
- Benedict Cumberbatch is 50 years old, born July 19, 1976 in Hammersmith, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Benedict Cumberbatch?
- Benedict Cumberbatch is a Cancer: born July 19, 1976, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Benedict Cumberbatch's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 19, 1976 birth.
- How tall is Benedict Cumberbatch?
- Benedict Cumberbatch is 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Benedict Cumberbatch's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Benedict Cumberbatch's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Benedict Cumberbatch's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Benedict Cumberbatch's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
