MCU actors who are in the closet

Pace's sexual orientation became topic of public discussion, when in 2012 he was identified as gay by Ian McKellen, who worked with him in The Hobbit movies. McKellen's "outing" was described in the press as a blunder and an accident on his part as Pace had not come out by then.[26] Pace made no comments about his romantic life until February 2018. Pace said in a February 2018 interview that he has dated both men and women, but did not identify with a single sexual identity label. He later came out as gay in an interview with The New York Times.

Thompson came out as bisexual in an interview published in June 2018, declaring: "In my family you can be anything you want to be. I'm attracted to men and also to women. If I bring a woman home, or a man, we don't even have to have the discussion".

While in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in 2005, Cumberbatch and two friends ("Theo and Denise [Black]) [136] were abducted, after bursting a tyre, and held at gunpoint by a group of locals. Eventually their abductors drove them into unsettled territory and set them free without explanation. Cumberbatch said of the incident: "It taught me that you come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life less ordinary."[137][138] Before the burst tyre, they had been listening to “How to Disappear Completely” from Radiohead. Following this experience, whenever Cumberbatch hears the song it "reminds [him] of a sense of reality [... and] a reason for hope".[136]

He subscribes to Buddhist philosophy and has expressed affinity for meditation and mindfulness.[118][139] Cumberbatch also follows a vegan diet.[140]

Cumberbatch is married to English theatre and opera director Sophie Hunter. Their engagement was announced in the "Forthcoming Marriages" section of The Times on 5 November 2014, after a 17-year friendship.[141][142] On 14 February 2015, the couple married at the 12th-century Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Mottistone on the Isle of Wight followed by a reception at Mottistone Manor.[143] They have two sons, Christopher Carlton (b. 2015)and Hal Auden (b. 2017).