LOS ANGELES, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Benedict Cumberbatch shares a common ancestor with Alan Turing.
The 38-year-old actor and WWII codebreaker are 17th cousins, according to researchers at genealogy website Ancestry. Cumberbatch and Turing are both related to John Beaufort, first Earl of Somerset, who was the son of John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster, of the House of Plantagenet.