Being sherlock

Benedict Cumberbatch is clearly drawn to highly complex, real-life characters under extraordinary circumstances, Associated Press reports in Toronto.

With characters like Sherlock Holmes, Julian Assange and Stephen Hawking, Benedict Cumberbatch has accumulated a filmography littered with high IQs.

Characters of analytical prowess and fast-deducting intellect have made Cumberbatch something like the ultimate quicksilver mind of the digital age. No actor has made computation sexier.