Benedict cumberbatch edward st aubyn biography

Back in during a Reddit Q&A Benedict Cumberbatch's answer when asked what other literary character he would like to play was Patrick Melrose. It's no wonder that soon after he was approached to play him, and also got on board to produce the series. Who, then, is Melrose, that he holds a fascination not just for Cumberbatch but for many dock of his generation and background?

Patrick Melrose is the name of the downwardly mobile upper-middle class character whose misadventures the British author Edward St Aubyn started to chronicle back in - I suppose at a time when Cumberbatch was just coming of books are fictionalized accounts of St. Aubyn's own life - a fact that adds to the horror of this story of abuse and addiction. The story starts with Patrick's childhood, in his family's summer house in France, and it is hardly a spoiler to say that he is raped by his father, and the reader is fed more and more instances o

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Patrick Melrose (miniseries)

Year Award Category Nominee(s) Result Ref.

British Screenwriters' AwardsBest British TV Drama Writing David NichollsWon ^[21]British kultur of CinematographersBest Cinematography in a Television Drama James Friend (for "Bad News")Won ^[22]Operators Award – Television Drama Daniel Bishop Nominated ^[23]International Online Cinema Awards Best Actor in a Limited Series or TV Movie Benedict CumberbatchNominated National Film and Television AwardsBest Actor Nominated Online Film & Television Association Awards Best Limited Series Nominated ^[24]Best Actor in a Motion Picture or Limited Series Benedict Cumberbatch Runner-up Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture or Limited Series Jennifer Jason LeighNominated Best Direction of a Motion Picture or Limited Series Nominated Best Writing of a Motion Picture or Limi

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Edward St Aubyn

British writer (born )

Edward St Aubyn (born ) is an English author and journalist. He is the author of ten novels, including notably the semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels. In , Mother's Milk was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Early life and education

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St Aubyn was born in ^[1] in London, the son of Roger Geoffrey St Aubyn (–), a surgeon, and his second wife, Lorna Mackintosh (–). On his father's side, he is a great-great-grandson of Sir Edward St Aubyn, 1st Baronet, and a great-nephew of John St Aubyn, 1st Baron St Levan.^[2]

St Aubyn's father was first married to Sophie Helene Freiin von Puthon, daughter of Baron Heinrich Puthon, long-time president of the Salzburg Festival, whom he divorced in St Aubyn has two half-sisters from his father's first marriage, and an elder sister, Alexandra.^[2] He grew up in London and France, where his family had houses.^[3] He has described an unhappy childhoo