Freddie Highmore

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Freddie Highmore at the premiere of the TV series Bates Motel in March 2013.

Alfred "Freddie" Thomas Highmore (born February 14, 1992 in London ) is a British actor , voice actor and screenwriter .

Life

His father is the film actor Edward Highmore , his brother Bertie Highmore (* 1995) also worked as a child actor. His mother, Sue Latimer is an acting agent who has, among others, the British actors Imelda Staunton and Daniel Radcliffe under contract.

As a young Arthur, Freddie Highmore starred in the television adaptation The Mists of Avalon , in the movie Two Brothers by director Jean-Jacques Annaud and in the summer comedy A Good Year by Ridley Scott alongside Russell Crowe .

He gained international fame alongside Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet with the role of Peter in When Dreams Learn to Fly ( Finding Neverland ). Highmore also starred with Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory . In 2006 he received a Young Artist Award for his role . From 2013 to 2017 he played alongside Vera Farmiga one of the two central main characters in the A&E series Bates Motel , which in the broadest sense is a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of Robert Bloch 's novel Psycho . Since 2017 he is in the hospital drama The Good Doctor autistic assistant physician Dr. Shaun Murphy.

Highmore is fluent in French and studied at the University of Cambridge with a double major in Spanish and Arabic .

Filmography (selection)

As an actor

As a screenwriter

As a director

As a voice actor

Awards and nominations

Golden Globe Award

Screen Actors Guild Award

Critics' Choice Movie Award

Critics' Choice Television Award

Web links

Commons : Freddie Highmore  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Highmore, Freddie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Highmore, Alfred Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England, UK