23 Facts About Charlie Cox

Charlie Thomas Cox was born on 15 December 1982 and is an English actor.

Charlie Cox made his West End debut the following year in a revival of the Harold Pinter plays The Lover and The Collection.

Charlie Cox was born in London, England, and raised in East Sussex.

Charlie Cox is the son of Patricia and Andrew Frederick Seaforth Cox, a publisher.

Charlie Cox is the youngest of five children and has one brother and three half-siblings from his father's first marriage.

Charlie Cox was raised Catholic and was educated at two private boarding schools: Ashdown House School in the village of Forest Row in East Sussex and Sherborne School in the market town of Sherborne in Dorset.

Charlie Cox was cast in his first significant professional role at age eighteen in the psychological thriller Dot the i, released in 2003.

Charlie Cox was next seen in the 2008 film Stone of Destiny as Ian Hamilton and in the 2009 historical drama Glorious 39, which were widely released in the United Kingdom.

Charlie Cox's character became a regular for the series' third season, broadcast in September 2012.

Charlie Cox received a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the ensemble in 2011 and another nomination the following year.

Charlie Cox had lead roles in two unproduced CBS TV pilots: a political drama titled The Ordained in February 2013 and an untitled Wall Street show executive-produced by John Cusack in February 2014.

Charlie Cox portrayed Matt Murdock in Marvel's Daredevil TV series as well as the 2017 team-up miniseries event The Defenders, produced and released through Netflix.

Charlie Cox's performance was praised and given a Helen Keller Achievement Award for his role by the American Foundation for the Blind.

Between filming seasons of Daredevil, Charlie Cox made his New York theater debut, co-starring in the off-Broadway production of Incognito at the Manhattan Theatre Club.

Charlie Cox acted opposite Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone, and others in the 2018 film King of Thieves, based on the true story of the 2015 Hatton Garden jewelry heist in London; it reunited him with James Marsh, who directed him in 2014's The Theory of Everything.

Charlie Cox was sought for the role by director Jamie Lloyd, who had previously directed him in the 2008 production of the Pinter play The Lover and The Collection.

In fall 2020, Charlie Cox began filming the RTE Dublin crime series Kin, in which he stars with Aidan Gillen, Clare Dunne, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Ciaran Hinds, and Emmett Scanlan.

In December 2021, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed that Charlie Cox would be reprising the role of Daredevil in the studio's Marvel Cinematic Universe productions; his first project "remain[ed] to be seen" at that time.

Charlie Cox starred in the British spy drama miniseries Treason, which premiered on Netflix on 26 December 2022.

In September 2018, Charlie Cox married Samantha Thomas, Executive Vice President of Bron TV, with whom he has a daughter and a son.

At the time of their marriage, they both worked for Marvel Television, where Thomas was Vice President of Original Programming and Charlie Cox starred in Daredevil.

Charlie Cox has previously lived in New York City, Los Angeles, and in the Chelsea and Highbury neighbourhoods of London.

Charlie Cox is a football fan and supports Arsenal FC In January 2025, Cox became an American citizen through naturalisation, making him a dual citizen of the UK and US.