article_snippet: Cumberbatch family genealogist, Bob Cumberbatch, said: 'Personally, I think it's fabulous. '
article_snippet: The star, who won plaudits for playing a slave owner in 12 Years
article_snippet: A Slave last year, is also descended from a long line of slave owners in Barbados.
article_snippet: Earlier this year, a New York City commissioner Stacey Cumberbatch, claimed a New York City commissioner Stacey Cumberbatch gained a New York City commissioner Stacey Cumberbatch distinctive surname because a New York City commissioner Stacey Cumberbatch ancestors were owned by the star's fifth great-grandfather on a sugar plantation.
article_snippet: Cumberbatch once said Cumberbatch part in another anti-slavery film –
article_snippet: Amazing Grace – was a sort of apology' for Cumberbatch ancestry.
article_snippet: Cumberbatch also revealed that Cumberbatch mother, the actress Wanda Ventham, once urged Cumberbatch not to use Cumberbatch real surname professionally in case his real surname made Cumberbatch a target for reparation claims by the descendants of slaves.