Cumberbatch is getting rave reviews as Alan Turing, the math prodigy responsible for cracking the German Enigma code, thereby granting the Allied Forces access to once-indecipherable Nazi dispatches detailing the location and activities of the German navy. Turing was chemically castrated for "gross indecency"--being gay. Two years later, at the age of 41, the war hero ended his own life with cyanide. Read the interview here.