Benedict Cumberbatch chose a more traditional fashion of announcing his wedding engagement rather than a flashy tabloid cover or an impersonal social media post. The "Sherlock" star posted his modest announcement under "Forthcoming Marriages" in The Times newspaper.
"The engagement is announced between Benedict, son of Wanda and Timothy Cumberbatch of London, and Sophie, daughter of Katharine Hunter of Edinburg and Charles Hunter of London," the announcement read.
Cumberbatch and his fiancée Sophie Hunter paid the standard £29 (about $40) per line, but the Times went the extra step to place a box around the notice. The newspaper also wrote up a small story about the engagement.
The couple of two years went public with their relationship earlier this summer at the French Open. They also starred together in the 2009 film "Burlesque Fairytales."
Hunter is known for her avant-garde plays that she directs and sometimes writes. She directed the North American Tour of the 2013 play 69° S. (The Shackleton Project) about the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton. The experimental drama placed performers on stilts to act like four-foot tall marionette puppets. Hunter also won the Samuel Beckett award for writing and directing her play The Terrific Electric in 2007, according to The Guardian.
Cumberbatch has Oscar buzz surrounding his role as the English mathematician and cryptanalyst Alan Turing in "The Imitation Game." Turing helped the British crack the Enigma coda used by the Germans in World War II. The movie also stars Keira Knightly and won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival.
Cumberbatch is also rumored to be the lead in Marvel's "Doctor Strange." The studio has not confirmed his casting.
