Benedict Cumberbatch is to become a father for the first time. The “Imitation Game” star’s fiancée, Sophie Hunter, is pregnant.
The 38-year-old actor — who’s a contender for the best actor Golden Globe this weekend for his role in the WWII drama and is expected to garner an Oscar nomination — is delighted and excited about becoming a dad, we’re told.
Sources also said the low-key couple, who were engaged in early November, are planning to marry sooner than expected, in the next few months.
One source said: “Sophie is a few months along, and both she and Benedict are very excited about it. They are also quietly planning to marry in early spring.”
“I am delighted to confirm that Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter are expecting their first child. They are both over the moon,” a rep for the actor said.
Cumberbatch and Hunter, 36, an actress and theater director, were most recently spotted together last Saturday at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, where she disguised her bump with a long Just Cavalli maxidress and a discreetly placed purse.
Cumberbatch has been vocal in the past about becoming a dad. In a 2013 interview with Elle Japan he gushed: “It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.”
Congrats to the lovely couple!
