The actor Benedict Cumberbatch is to marry his fiancée in a Valentine’s Day wedding on the Isle of Wight.

Cumberbatch, the star of The Imitation Game and the TV series Sherlock, will marry Sophie Hunter, an actress, at the 12th-century St Peter and St Paul church in the village of Mottistone. The reception will be held at Mottistone Manor, a National Trust property nearby.

Cumberbatch, 38, and Ms Hunter, 36, an Oxford graduate, announced their engagement in The Times last November. They met while filming the 2009 thriller Burlesque Fairytales, in which Cumberbatch starred and Ms Hunter played a supporting role. The wedding was planned to fit Cumberbatch’s filming commitments, and before Ms Hunter grows more heavily pregnant.

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