Benedict Cumberbatch birth chart

July 19, 1976
Hammersmith, United Kingdom
Time unknown: noon chart, no rising sign or houses

☉︎SunCancer

☽︎MoonAriesorTaurus

Main elementWater 42%

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Benedict Cumberbatch is the only chart in NEBO's celebrity base with Sun in Cancer, Mars in Virgo and Jupiter in Taurus at once. Sylvester Stallone comes closest: same Sun and Mars, but Jupiter in Libra.

Mars in Virgo with Jupiter in Taurus. That pair shows up in 1 chart in 275 here, Mae West and Robert Downey Jr. among them.
One planet retrograde: Neptune. Lee Byung-hun and Nicole Kidman have the same set, 1 chart in 57 here.
Three planets in Leo. Mercury, Venus and Saturn pile into one sign. Jason Momoa and Ingmar Bergman stack Leo the same way.

What the chart says

In astrology, a Cancer Sun reads as protective and loyal, with the Moon in Aries or Taurus depending on birth hour. By the book, Mercury in Leo + Sun in Cancer + Jupiter in Taurus reads as someone who talks like it's a stage, guards its people and grows by building slowly. Elements run water 42%, fire 35%, earth 19%, air 3%, cardinal first at 42%, the nearest mix to DanTDM.

Planets

Gold lines: Venus conjunct Saturn (0.0°), Sun sextile Jupiter (1.0°).

☉︎Sun · core♋︎ Cancer 26°guards its peoplenearest chart: Vladimir Mayakovsky 26°
☽︎Moon · emotions♈︎ / ♉︎Aries or Taurusdepends on birth hour
☿︎Mercury · mind♌︎ Leo 1°talks like it's a stagenearest chart: Michael Phelps 1°
♀︎Venus · taste♌︎ Leo 5°wants grand gesturesnearest chart: Kai Havertz 5°
♂︎Mars · drive♍︎ Virgo 7°wins on detailnearest chart: Antoni Gaudí 7°
♃︎Jupiter · growth♉︎ Taurus 25°grows by building slowlynearest chart: Vladimir Mayakovsky 25°
♄︎Saturn · discipline♌︎ Leo 5°learns to shine without applausenearest chart: Srinivasa Ramanujan 5°

Generational · shared by a whole age group

♅︎ ♏︎Uranus in Scorpio7% of charts here

♆︎ ♐︎Neptune in Sagittarius11% of charts here

♇︎ ♎︎Pluto in Libra8% of charts here

Tightest aspects

Venus conjunct Saturn (0.3°). Taste and self-control act as one, and only Ray Bradbury, Peter Dinklage and Paul Mescal have it tighter at noon.
Sun sextile Jupiter (1.4°). The ego gets an easy opening from appetite for more, as tight as Zheng Qinwen’s.
Mercury square Uranus (1.7°). The mind keeps colliding with the rule-breaking streak, as tight as Song Kang’s.

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Matched by trait profile:

Harry Potter: Severus Snape
Marvel: Star-Lord
Star Wars: Poe Dameron
Fullmetal Alchemist: Edward Elric
Charmed: Greg the firefighter
Batman: Red Hood (Jason Todd)
The Hunger Games: Gale Hawthorne

Famous people whose charts click with Benedict Cumberbatch

Zendaya leads at 95%, Lili Reinhart closes the list at 90%. Scored like NEBO scores friends.

Closest chart twins

Demis Hassabis, born 8 days later: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn match by sign, Sun splits, Cancer here against Leo.
Vladimir Mayakovsky, 83 years earlier, repeats the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter signs, average gap 23°.
Zoe Saldaña is the nearest in film (1978): same Venus, Mars and Saturn, split on Sun and Mercury.

Born on July 19

July 19 also belongs to Anthony Edwards (1962, film), Jon Jones (1987, sport) and Lasizwe Dambuza (1998, creator). Hammersmith is also the birthplace of Daniel Radcliffe. July 19, 1976 was a Monday, and the Moon was at last quarter.

Among actors and directors

Of this chart's placements, Saturn in Leo is the rarest among actors and directors (5%), closest to Xochitl Gomez and Takeshi Kitano. Cancer ranks 9th of 12 Suns here, with Ingmar Bergman and Sylvester Stallone nearest on the same Sun.