Freddie Highmore

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Film Actor · Born Feb 14, 1992 · United Kingdom · Male

Alfred Thomas Highmore (born 14 February 1992) is an English actor and screenwriter. He made his acting debut in the comedy film Women Talking Dirty (1999), and has since starred in Finding Neverland (2004), Five Children and It (2004), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Arthur and the Invisibles (2006), August Rush (2007), The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008), Toast (2010), and The Art of Getting By (2011). He won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer in two consecutive years (2004–2005). For five seasons, Highmore starred as Norman Bates in the A&E drama-thriller series Bates Motel (2013–2017), for which he was twice nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series. In 2017, he won a People's Choice Award for his performance. In 2017, he began to star as Dr. Shaun Murphy, who has autism and savant syndrome, in the ABC drama series The Good Doctor. 2Early life Highmore was born on 14 February 1992 in Camden Town, London, England, into a show business family. His mother, Sue Latimer, is a talent agent whose clients include actors Daniel Radcliffe and Imelda Staunton, and his father, Edward Highmore, is an actor. He has a younger brother named Albert "Bertie" Highmore, born in 199