Watch Benedict Cumberbatch Deliver 11 Amazing Celebrity Impressions In 60 Seconds [WATCH}

Ahead of his new role as Alan Turing - the brilliant, world-changing mathematician and one of the minds behind the computer - in The Imitation Game, MTV got Benedict Cumberbatch to sit down and play a version completely different version of the Imitation Game. 

In the clip Cumberbatch lends his considerable imitation skills to providing the voices of luminaries such as Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery, Tom Hiddleston, Owen Wilson, Matthew McConaughey and even Taylor Swift. 

Cumberbatch has been everywhere across the past 12 months, playing some of the most memorable characters in cinema - Ford in 12 Years A Slave, Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate, Khan in Star Trek: Into Darkness as well as Smaug and the Necromancer in The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug - while also delivering a star turn as Sherlock Holmes in the TV series Sherlock. Cumberbatch has also been tagged to play another villainous Khan, this time as Jungle Book: Origin's Shere Khan. 

In addition to recently announcing his engagement to British singer and theater star Sophie Hunter, the star will also appear, says The Wrap, as part of CNN's eighth annual "CNN Heroes: An All Star Tribute", alongside Christina Hendricks, Nick Jonas, Taye Diggs, Kelly Ripa and more. You can vote for the CNN Heroes right here. 

Meanwhile, Cumberbatch as Alan Turing - who with his team at Bletchley Park in England broke the Axis Enigma code in World War Two -  is one of the year's most anticipated movies and roles. In an interview with The Imitation Game's director Morten Tyldum, The Guardian say the film "interweaves three distinct threads" of Turing's life and "doesn't shy away from quirkiness".

In a quirk of fate, Time also reported earlier this week that Cumberbatch was distantly related to Turing.