It is a terrible period for the actor, who should have the heart to the party. Featured in Spider-Man: No way home as Doctor Strange – with Tom Holland and Zendaya, released in France on Wednesday, December 15, 2021 – Benedict Cumberbatch finds it difficult to focus on promoting the film, or on even the slightest sense of joy. And for good reason, he has just lost his 62-year-old big sister, Tracy Peacock. This death, “horrible“, is due to terrible cancer, as the actor explained at length in an official statement shared by the DailyMail.
She really had a gift
Tracy Peacock, an artist better known by the nickname Tracks, fought for seven years against the disease without however making her fight public. “She had nothing to do with the rest of the world, recalled Benedict Cumberbatch. She was very distinctly different. She was brilliant and did a lot of restoration work on works of art, on canvases, frames, carpentry. But she also had her own projects and created cards for the holidays, Christmas for example. She really had a gift.“
Tracy Peacock is the fruit of the loves of Wanda Ventham and James Tabernacle. When her mom had Benedict Cumberbatch with Timothy Carlton, she decided as a teenager to stay with that part of the family. So she grew up with the British comedian and often watched over him when he was a baby … more or less attentively. He remembers, in particular, a time when she had forgotten him outside, on a rooftop, in the middle of the winter season. “I mean it was funny, says the husband of Sophie Hunter, father of three children. She was in the kitchen with her friends and suddenly she saw that snow was starting to fall through the window. “It’s up to her, from now on, to make the snowflakes fall from up there …