Alfred Thomas Highmore was born on 14 February 1992 and is an English actor.
37 Facts About Freddie Highmore
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Freddie Highmore won two consecutive Critics' Choice Movie Awards for Best Young Performer.
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Freddie Highmore starred as Norman Bates in the drama-thriller series Bates Motel, for which he was nominated three times for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series and won a People's Choice Award.
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In 2017, Freddie Highmore began producing and starring as Dr Shaun Murphy in the ABC drama series The Good Doctor, for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.
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Freddie Highmore was born on 14 February 1992 in Camden Town, London.
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Freddie Highmore's mother, Sue Latimer, is a talent agent whose clients include actors Daniel Radcliffe and Imelda Staunton.
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Freddie Highmore's father is the former actor Edward Highmore, and he has a younger brother named Bertie, who is a venture capitalist.
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Freddie Highmore was educated at The Brookland Junior and Infant school in Hampstead Garden Suburb near Golders Green in the London Borough of Barnet until the age of 11 and gained a scholarship to attend Highgate School, an independent school in Highgate, London.
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In 2008, Freddie Highmore scored straight A* grades in English language and English literature, maths, Spanish, French, Latin, geography, biology, chemistry and physics in his GCSEs exam.
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From 2010 to 2014, Freddie Highmore attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he earned a double first in Spanish and Arabic.
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Freddie Highmore enrolled at the London School of Economics to study finance at summer school during the summer break at Cambridge in 2011.
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Freddie Highmore worked at Gulf Bank in Kuwait as an intern in 2012, and at a law firm in Madrid during his year abroad while filming the first two seasons of Bates Motel, which made him briefly consider becoming a lawyer after graduation.
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Freddie Highmore began his acting career with small roles on television at the age of 7.
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Freddie Highmore made his film debut in Coky Giedroyc's comedy Women Talking Dirty, playing the son of a woman who has recently become estranged from her commitment-phobic French lover.
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In 2001, Freddie Highmore played a young King Arthur in the TNT miniseries The Mists of Avalon, a take on the Arthurian legends that depicted the women of Camelot as the real power behind the throne.
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Freddie Highmore has acted alongside members of his family in two separate films: his brother played his brother in Women Talking Dirty, and his father played his father in Hallmark Entertainment's television film Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story.
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In 2004, Freddie Highmore returned to the big screen for the family adventure film Two Brothers, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
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Freddie Highmore played the son of a French administrator who refuses to believe that his new friend, a tiger cub named Sangha, might be dangerous after having tasted blood.
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Freddie Highmore next had a major role in the fantasy film Five Children and It.
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That same year, Freddie Highmore made his breakthrough with a critically acclaimed performance as troubled Peter Llewelyn Davies in Marc Forster's semi-biographical film Finding Neverland.
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Freddie Highmore received several awards and nominations for the role, including a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer, and nominations for the Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role.
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Freddie Highmore was reportedly recommended by co-star Johnny Depp, with whom Highmore had worked in Finding Neverland; Depp had been impressed by the young actor's performance and thus put his name forward for the role.
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Freddie Highmore had not seen the original 1971 version of the film, and decided not to see it until he was done filming so his portrayal of Charlie would not be influenced.
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Freddie Highmore lent his voice to the film's accompanying video game of the same name.
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Freddie Highmore next appeared as a young Max Skinner in Ridley Scott's comedy-drama film A Good Year, which was released in the UK on 27 October 2006.
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Freddie Highmore next starred in the dual role of American twins Simon Grace and Jared Grace in the fantasy adventure film The Spiderwick Chronicles, based on the popular children's stories of the same name by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black.
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The film had a video game, The Spiderwick Chronicles, in which Freddie Highmore reprised the characters of Simon and Jared in a voice role.
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In 2009, Freddie Highmore voiced the lead character in the animated film Astro Boy and provided his voice to its accompanying video game, Astro Boy: The Video Game.
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Freddie Highmore then played the main role in Toast, a BBC biographical film about chef Nigel Slater, which was aired on 30 December 2010.
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In 2013, Freddie Highmore voiced the title character in the animated adventure film Justin and the Knights of Valour.
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In 2016, Freddie Highmore starred in Stephen Poliakoff's BBC Two seven-part miniseries Close to the Enemy and Nick Hamm's political comedy-drama film The Journey.
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In 2017, Freddie Highmore took on the lead role of Dr Shaun Murphy, an autistic savant, in the ABC drama series The Good Doctor, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series for his performance.
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Freddie Highmore serves as an executive producer and director on the show, and wrote the second season episode "Hello".
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Freddie Highmore has been cast as the voice of the Duke of Cheshire in the animated film adaptation of The Canterville Ghost.
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Freddie Highmore will serve as an executive producer on Ehrin's drama pilot Long Distance for NBC.
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Apart from English, Freddie Highmore is fluent in Spanish and French, and semi-fluent in Arabic.
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Freddie Highmore's wife is web designer Klarissa Munz, who was a fellow student at Cambridge University.