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Sophie Hunter is an avant-garde theater and opera director, playwright and actress from England. Furthermore, Sophie Hunter is also known as the wife of English actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
Early life
Sofia Irene Hunter better known as Sophie Hunter was born in March 16, 1978, in Hammersmith, London, England. According to her date of birth, she is 44 years and has British nationality. He has the birth sign of Pisces and belongs to English ethnicity. Likewise, Hunter follows Christianity by religion.
Hunter is the daughter of Charles Rupert (father) and Anna Katharine (mother). Later, her parents divorced and her father remarried. She has two younger brothers whose names are Timothy and Patrick, as well as two half-brothers from her father’s second marriage.
Educational Career
Regarding her academic career, she studied at ‘St Paul’s Girls’ School’ in Hammersmith. Later, she enrolled at the ‘University of Oxford’ to study modern languages, with specializations in French and Italian. Hunter was a model for photographer Michael Roberts for a short time.
In addition, he gradually developed an interest in theater. Later he moved to Paris and studied avant-garde theater at ‘L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq’ for two years. She then attended the Saratoga International Theater Institute, in New York City, where she studied under the direction of American theater and opera director Anne Bogart.
Career
Regarding her professional career, Sophie Hunter made her television debut in 2004 as a supporting actress in the police series ‘Midsomer Murders’ and the action comedy ‘Keen Eddie’. She also appeared in the historical drama Vanity Fair, directed by Mira Nair.
‘The Curse of Steptoe’, ‘Henry VIII: The Mind of a Tyrant’ and ‘Torchwood’ are among his other notable on-screen appearances. She played ‘Ophelia’ in ‘Hamlet’ during the ‘Al Bustaan Festival’ in Beirut in 2005.
Additionally, he starred in the television movie ‘Friends & Crocodiles’ the same year. She also collaborated with Guy Chambers on a French EP called ‘The Isis Project’ and starred in the plays ‘Silverland’ and ‘Macbeth’. Although she performed on a wide range of stages, theater was always her first passion.
Directional debut
Hunter co-founded the theater company ‘Boileroom’ and in 2007 received the renowned ‘Oxford Samuel Beckett Theater Trust Award’ for co-directing the play ‘The Terrific Electric’. ‘The Terrific Electric’ was also her directorial debut.
She also co-founded the Lacuna Theater Company and was associate director of the play Enron, which played at the Royal Court Theater in the West End and the Broadway Theater on Broadway. .’ Likewise, in 2011, she served as creative director of the New York production of ‘Sleep No More’.
He rose to fame with his avant-garde plays. Additionally, he has directed and performed in theater shows in Europe, North America and the Middle East. His experimental work 69° South, popularly known as “Project Shackleton,” was a great success.
In addition, he also directed ‘Phaedra’ at the ‘Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival’ in Northern Ireland and ‘The Turn of the Screw’ at the ‘Aldeburgh Festival’. Additionally, she co-starred with Nicholas Daniel in ‘Music on the Meare’ at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2017. She was appointed producer of the film version of the novel ‘The End We Start From’ that same year. She is a well-known theater figure with a large number of followers on social networks.
Awards
As for his achievements, he has earned quite a few of them. In 2007, she received the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theater Trust Award. She was named an International Artist Fellow by Location One, New York (2010/11).
Sophie Hunter – Net worth 2022
As a theater director, playwright and former English actress and singer, she has collected a huge sum of money in her profession. As of 2022, her net worth is estimated to be around $2 million and she has not revealed her salary and income in public at the moment.
civil status
Regarding her personal life, she married actor Benedict Cumberbatch at the Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Mottistone, on February 14, 2015. With the marriage, the couple has three children whose names are Christopher Carlton Cumberbatch, Hal Auden Cumberbatch and Finn Cumberbatch.
Caption: Sophie Hunter with her husband, Benedict Cumberbatch (Source: Instagram)
In the past, Sophie Hunter had a long-term relationship with the sculptor Conrad Shawcross, whom she met while studying at Oxford. In early 2010, the couple separated. She is close to Eloise Fornieles, a British-Argentinian performance artist, and Max Osterweis, the creative director of ‘SUNO’. Additionally, she has a talent for languages and is fluent in French, Italian and English. She likes music and plays the piano.
Body measurements
Caption: Sophie Hunter sleeping in the green grass (Source: Instagram)
Sophie Hunter is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs around 62 kg. Furthermore, she has brown hair with blue eyes and her body measurement measures 34A-25-35 inches. Likewise, she wears a shoe size of 6.5 UK and her waist size is 25 inches.
Sophie Hunter – Social Networks
On his Instagram page, he has more than 2.8k followers. Likewise, she has more than 1.1 thousand followers on Twitter and is not active on Facebook.
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