Question: When was the English actor who has performed in film, television, theatre and radio and starred in  12 Years a Slave born
Context: The Empire Award for Best Supporting Actor is an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine "Empire" to honor an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry.  The Empire Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of two ongoing awards which were first introduced at the 19th Empire Awards ceremony in 2014 (along with Best Supporting Actress) with Michael Fassbender receiving the award for his role in "12 Years a Slave".  Winners are voted by the readers of "Empire" magazine. 12 Years a Slave is the original soundtrack album to the 2013 film "12 Years a Slave" starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, and Lupita Nyong'o.  The record contains twenty-one tracks from the original film score written and composed by Hans Zimmer.  The score was widely admired and thought of as a contender for the Academy Award for Original Music Score at the 86th Academy Awards. Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch CBE (born 19 July 1976) is an English actor who has performed in film, television, theatre and radio.  He is the son of actors Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham.  Cumberbatch graduated from the University of Manchester and continued his training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, obtaining a Master of Arts in Classical Acting.  He first performed at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park in Shakespearean productions and made his West End debut portraying George Tesman in Richard Eyre's revival of "Hedda Gabler" in 2005.  Since then he has starred in the Royal National Theatre productions "After the Dance" (2010) and "Frankenstein" (2011).  In 2015, he played William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" at the Barbican Theatre. Stephen Northup (roughly 1630 – after 1687) was an early settler of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and built what may be the oldest house still standing in Rhode Island.  Northup was a fairly early settler of Providence in the Rhode Island colony, but accounts claiming that he settled the area with Roger Williams are inaccurate, since Northup was an infant or child when Williams first came to Providence in the spring of 1636.  Northup lived in Providence from 1655 to 1666, after which he moved to the Narragansett country (what is now North Kingstown, Rhode Island), which land was claimed by both the Rhode Island and Connecticut colonies.  He may have owned or operated a grist mill, and is credited with building a house that still stands and is used as a private residence.  Northup was married, had six known children, and lived until at least 1687, when he was taxed.  He was the great grandfather of Capt. Henry Northup who left Rhode Island to settle in Hoosick, New York, and took his slave Mintus who was manumitted in 1797.  Mintus assumed the surname Northup, and had a free-born son, Solomon Northup, the subject of the Academy Award winning film 12 Years a Slave. Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson.  Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details his being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South.  He was in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before he was able to secretly get information to friends and family in New York, who in turn secured his release with the aid of the state.  Northup's account provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, and describes at length cotton and sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in Louisiana. "Run, Nigger, Run" (Roud 3660) is an African-American folk song, first documented in 1851, which is known from numerous versions.  Growing out of the rise of slave patrols in the slave-owning southern United States, the song is about and follows an unnamed black man who attempts to run from a slave patrol and avoid capture.  This folk song was released as a commercial recording several times, beginning in the 1920s, and it was included in the 2013 film "12 Years a Slave". 12 Years a Slave is a 2013 period drama film and an adaptation of the 1853 slave narrative memoir "Twelve Years a Slave" by Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen, in 1841 and sold into slavery.  Northup was put to work on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before being released.  The first scholarly edition of Northup's memoir, co-edited in 1968 by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon, carefully retraced and validated the account and concluded it to be accurate.  Other characters in the film were also real people, including Edwin and Mary Epps, and Patsey. Steven Rodney "Steve" McQueen (born 9 October 1969) is an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and video artist.  For his 2013 film, "12 Years a Slave", a historical drama adaptation of an 1853 slave narrative memoir, he won an Academy Award, BAFTA Award for Best Film, and Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, as a producer, and he also received the award for Best Director from the New York Film Critics Circle.  McQueen is the first black filmmaker to win an Academy Award for Best Picture.  McQueen is known for his collaborations with actor Michael Fassbender, who has starred in all three of McQueen's feature films as of 2014.  McQueen's other feature films are "Hunger" (2008), a historical drama about the 1981 Irish hunger strike, and "Shame" (2011), a drama about an executive struggling with sex addiction. The English actor Benedict Cumberbatch has performed in many films, television shows, theatre productions, and recorded lines for various radio programs, narrations, and video games.  He first performed for The New Shakespeare Company at Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park for two seasons.  He later portrayed George Tesman in Richard Eyre's revival of "Hedda Gabler" in 2005 and since then has starred in the Royal National Theatre productions "After the Dance" (2010) and "Frankenstein" (2011).  In 2015, he played William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" at the Barbican Theatre. Music from and Inspired by 12 Years a Slave is the soundtrack album to "12 Years a Slave".  It contains two tracks from the film score composed by Hans Zimmer, three tracks co-arranged by violinist Tim Fain and Nicholas Britell, and original spiritual songs written and arranged for the film by Nicholas Britell, as well as performances by Alabama Shakes, Cody ChesnuTT, Gary Clark, Jr., Alicia Keys, Tim Fain, Laura Mvula, Chris Cornell, Joy Williams, John Legend, and spiritual song performances from the film.
Answer: 19 July 1976