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Freddie Highmore is a Actor British born on 14 february 1992 at Camden Town (United-kingdom)

Freddie Highmore

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Birth name Alfred Thomas Highmore
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 14 february 1992 (32 years) at Camden Town (United-kingdom)

Alfred Thomas "Freddie" Highmore (born 14 February 1992) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in the films 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), and The Art of Getting By (2011). He currently stars as Norman Bates in the A&E series Bates Motel (2013–present), for which he was twice nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series.

Biography

Enfance et formation
Freddie Highmore est né le 14 février 1992 à Camden Town, quartier de Londres. Il grandit dans une famille issue du monde du spectacle : sa mère, Sue Latimer, qui est agent artistique, a travaillé pour l'acteur Daniel Radcliffe ; son père, Edward Highmore, est également acteur. Il a un frère cadet, Bertie Highmore, qui a également joué dans le film Women Talking Dirty avec lui.


Débuts précoces et révélation
Freddie Highmore commence sa carrière d'acteur en obtenant des petits rôles à la télévision à l'âge de sept ans.
Il fait ses débuts au cinéma avec son frère en 1999 dans Women Talking Dirty, une comédie de Coky Giedroyc, dans laquelle il est le fils d'Helena Bonham Carter.

En 2001, il interprète le roi Arthur jeune dans le téléfilm Les Brumes d'Avalon. Il joue aussi dans la mini-série Happy Birthday Shakespeare.

La même année, il tourne avec son père Edward Highmore dans Jack et le Haricot magique

En 2004, il est révélé dans le rôle de Peter dans le film Neverland. Pour sa performance, il est nommé plusieurs fois. Il reçoit la récompense du Meilleur jeune acteur et celle du Meilleur espoir.

Impressionné, Johnny Depp recommande le jeune acteur à Tim Burton pour le rôle de Charlie dans Charlie et la Chocolaterie où il retrouve Helena Bonham Carter.

En 2006, il incarne Arthur dans le film Arthur et les Minimoys de Luc Besson. Il s'agit de l'adaptation cinématographique des deux premiers volets de la série de livres Arthur et les Minimoys créée par Luc Besson et Céline Garcia : Arthur et les Minimoys (2002) et Arthur et la Cité interdite (2003). Le film rencontre un franc succès ce qui génère une trilogie à laquelle l'acteur restera fidèle.

En 2007, il devient un prodige de la musique dans August Rush de Kirsten Sheridan, aux côtés de Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers et Robin Williams.

En 2008, il incarne des jumeaux, Simon et Jared Grace, dans le film Les Chroniques de Spiderwick.


Confirmation
En 2011, il donne la réplique à Emma Roberts dans le film Le Jour où je l'ai rencontrée.L’acteur avoue avoir toujours rêvé de jouer un méchant. Ce sera chose faite, puisqu'en 2013, il interprète le jeune Norman Bates dans la série télévisée Bates Motel inspirée du célèbre film Psychose d'Alfred Hitchcock. Protagoniste principal de la série aux côtés de Vera Farmiga qui interprète sa mère, le show est un succès d’audiences et l’installe sur le petit écran.
À l’arrêt de Bates Motel, en 2017, il rebondit rapidement en étant choisi pour incarner un jeune docteur autiste, Shaun Murphy, dans la série télévisée dramatique et médicale Good Doctor, développée par le créateur de la série Dr House et dont il est une nouvelle fois, le héros principal.


Vie privée
Polyglotte, Freddie Highmore parle couramment le français et a aussi étudié l'espagnol et l'arabe.

Il vit à Londres et évite les réseaux sociaux. Il est proche de l'actrice Vera Farmiga, sa partenaire dans la série Bates Motel, et est le parrain de son fils Fynn, qu'elle a eu avec son mari Renn Hawkey .

Best films

Usually with

Luc Besson
Luc Besson
(3 films)
Éric Serra
Éric Serra
(3 films)
Cartman
Cartman
(3 films)
Ron Crawford
Ron Crawford
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Freddie Highmore (23 films)

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Actor

Almost Friends
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Freddie Highmore, Odeya Rush, Haley Joel Osment, Christopher Meloni, Marg Helgenberger, Jake Abel
Roles Charlie Brenner
Rating58% 2.9106452.9106452.9106452.9106452.910645
Un jeune dans la vingtaine, habitant toujours chez ses parents, tombe follement amoureux de la jeune femme travaillant dans le café tout proche...
The Journey
Directed by Nick Hamm
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Freddie Highmore, John Hurt, Toby Stephens, Catherine McCormack
Roles Jack
Rating66% 3.3452753.3452753.3452753.3452753.345275
Deux ennemis implacables d'Irlande du Nord, Ian Paisley, le chef du parti unioniste démocratique, et Martin McGuinness, un politicien du parti Sinn Fein sont contraints de réaliser un voyage ensemble. Ils vont faire un acte de foi et un grand changement pour l’histoire moderne.
The Lego Movie, 1h40
Directed by Chris Miller, Chris Miller, Phil Lord
Origin Danemark
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about children, Jeu, Sports films, Comedy science fiction films, Martial arts films, Batman films, Superman films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Superhero films, Films about toys, Political films, Dystopian films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Space opera, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie
Roles Sleepyhead (voice)
Rating76% 3.8472753.8472753.8472753.8472753.847275
In the Lego universe, the wizard Vitruvius attempts to protect a superweapon called the "Kragle" from the evil Lord Business. He fails to do so, but prophesies that a person called "the Special" will find the Piece of Resistance capable of stopping the Kragle.
Justin and the Knights of Valour, 1h30
Origin Espagne
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Children's films
Actors Saoirse Ronan, Freddie Highmore, Mark Strong, Antonio Banderas, Julie Walters, Olivia Williams
Roles Justin (voice)
Rating59% 2.998412.998412.998412.998412.99841
Justin (Freddie Highmore) lives in the kingdom of Gabylonia, where bureaucrats rule and knights have been ousted. His dream is to become one of the Knights of Valour, like his grandfather, Sir Roland. But his father Reginald (Alfred Molina), a widower and the chief counsel to the Queen (Olivia Williams), wants his son to follow in his footsteps and become a lawyer. After an argument with his father, Justin seeks comfort from his grandmother (Julie Walters), a friend of the Queen, who encourages him to follow his dreams. Justin notices that his grandfather's sword is missing. He decides to go and find his grandfather's sword as his quest. His grandmother gives him a key which originally belonged to his grandfather and tells him to go to an abbey where three wise monks would train him. Before Justin leaves on his quest, he visits his crush Lara (Tamsin Egerton) who is a spoilt brat and the daughter of the kingdom's greatest economic. He wants to say farewell to her, though she is not really listening.
The Art of Getting By, 1h24
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano, Elizabeth Reaser, Sam Robards, Rita Wilson
Roles George Zinavoy
Rating65% 3.250613.250613.250613.250613.25061
George (Freddie Highmore) is a loner high school student with a penchant for drawing and skipping class. He has a nihilistic view of the world which is why he never does homework and skips school frequently. His academic delinquency puts him on academic probation. One day while on the school roof he encounters another classmate, Sally (Emma Roberts), smoking. When a teacher appears, George pulls out a cigarette and takes the fall for Sally. The two become friends. On career day, George meets a young artist, Dustin, and finds him inspiring. He brings Sally with him to visit Dustin at his studio in Brooklyn and it becomes apparent that Dustin finds Sally attractive. Sally invites George to a New Year's Eve party. At the party, she dances with an ex-boyfriend and George gets drunk, goes outside, throws up, and falls asleep in an alley. Sally finds him there and takes him to her place, putting him to bed on a pull-out next to her bed. They grow close and George gets more involved in school.
Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds, 1h40
Directed by Luc Besson
Origin France
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Children's films
Actors Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow, Selena Gomez, Ron Crawford, Dashiell Eaves, Robert Stanton
Roles Arthur Montgomery
Rating55% 2.7691552.7691552.7691552.7691552.769155
Following the second film of the series, Maltazard has assumed human size, and left Arthur in miniature. Accompanied by Selenia and Betameche, Arthur attempts to retrieve an enlarging potion from his house, which Maltazard seizes to enlarge his followers, whereafter Arthur returns to human form using an Elixir of Life given by a queen bee. Archibald convinces Darkos, Maltazard's son, to change sides, and enlarges him with a second potion. Arthur and Darkos then confront Maltazard, until Selenia and Betameche shrink Maltazard back to his Minimoy size and Arthur captures him, while the U.S. Army overcome Maltazard's forces. Maltazard thereafter remains a prisoner of Arthur's family.
Master Harold... and the Boys, 1h27
Directed by Lonny Price
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Freddie Highmore, Ving Rhames
Roles Hally Ballard
Rating58% 2.9005552.9005552.9005552.9005552.900555
Set in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, during the early apartheid days. The story deals with the coming of age of seventeen-year-old Hally (played by Freddie Highmore). Hally, a white South African, has a bad relationship with his biological father and is torn between his father’s expectations and opinions of him and those of his surrogate fathers, black waiters named Sam (played by Ving Rhames) and Willie (played by Patrick Mofokeng). Young Hally is obliged to laugh at his father’s racist jokes and perform humiliating tasks like empty chamber pots. By contrast, Sam exposes Hally to many positive experiences. After being humiliated by his father, Sam shows Hally how to be proud of something he’s achieved by helping him build and fly his own kite.
Toast
Toast (2010)

Directed by S.J. Clarkson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical
Actors Helena Bonham Carter, Freddie Highmore, Ken Stott, Victoria Hamilton, Corrinne Wicks, Matthew McNulty
Roles Nigel Slater
Rating65% 3.2990953.2990953.2990953.2990953.299095
The Slaters of Wolverhampton are plagued with Mrs. Slater's (Victoria Hamilton) chronic debilitating asthma and her cooking limited to what comes in canned goods that she can heat in boiling water. Mr. Alan Slater (Ken Stott) is sick with worry and has a cantankerous personality. Nigel longs for a life that is more than a succession of canned-food dinners made from what can be heated in boiling water. When dinner is burned, the standard substitute of toast is always served. He loves toast, with the crunchy outside giving way to buttery softness inside. Despite her infrequent forays into cooking meals from scratch, his mother's attempts to improve her cooking change nothing before or after her death. His father continues in widowhood with the same cooking style and frequent dinners of toast. The experience brings Nigel to conclude that he is not liked. Nigel learns from a friend that the way in which he could attempt a better relationship with his father is to cook a meal for him.
Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard, 1h33
Directed by Luc Besson
Origin France
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Children's films
Actors Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow, Selena Gomez, Fergie, Ron Crawford, Jimmy Fallon
Roles Arthur Montgomery
Rating52% 2.633022.633022.633022.633022.63302
In 1963, protagonist Arthur stays with his grandparents for the holidays, during which the Bogo Matassalai (a fictitious African society) assign Arthur a series of tests including camouflage and environmental nonviolence. Having passed these tests, Arthur prepares to see the Minimoys to celebrate, until his father decides to take him and his mother back to the metropolis. When a spider gives Arthur a grain of rice containing a distress-call, which he believes has come from the Minimoys, he returns to his grandparents' house, where the Bogo Matassalai's attempt to give him Minimoy stature through a telescope fails, and they instead wrap him in vines of increasing tightness until he falls in a drop of sap into the Minimoy Max's bar. En route to investigate the Minimoys' condition, Arthur and Max rescue Betameche, who leads Arthur to the King. He then learns that Selenia is held by Maltazard, who is inspired to invade the human world by increasing his own size. Maltazard tricks the Minimoys into completing this design. The telescope itself is destroyed in the process, leaving Arthur trapped at his Minimoy size.
Astro Boy
Astro Boy (2009)
, 1h34
Directed by David Bowers
Origin Hong kong
Genres Science fiction, Action, Animation
Themes Films set in the future, Superhero films, Robot films
Actors Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Bill Nighy, Donald Sutherland, Nathan Lane
Roles Astro Boy (voice)
Rating62% 3.1017253.1017253.1017253.1017253.101725
Toby Tenma is a teenager who lives in the futuristic city-state Metro City, which floats above the polluted "Surface". Toby's father, Dr. Tenma, is a famous roboticist and head of the Ministry of Science, but has a distant relationship with his son. Dr. Tenma meets the city's obstructive leader President Stone to demonstrate a new defensive robot called the Peacekeeper. To power it, Tenma's friend Dr. Elefun unveils the Blue and Red Core, two energy spheres which have opposing positive and negative energy. Stone has the destructive Red Core placed into the Peacekeeper, causing it to go berserk, leading to Toby being disintegrated after sneaking into the room.
Eddie Dickens and the Awful End
Directed by Francis Lawrence
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Actors Freddie Highmore

Le jeune Eddie Dickens est devenu orphelin quand ses parents ont commencé à être frappés par le ridicule Sick.
A Fox's Tale, 1h25
Genres Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about foxes
Actors Freddie Highmore, Miranda Richardson, Bill Nighy, Sienna Miller, Clemency Burton-Hill, Matthew McNulty
Roles Little Jack (voice)
Rating13% 0.6546750.6546750.6546750.6546750.654675
The animated film is about Little Jack (Freddie Highmore), a young fox who spends his time enjoying a wonderful life in the forest with his loving family. During the film, Little Jack's world changes drastically when his father, Jack, is captured and forced to join the circus. The film's villain, a shrewd circus owner named Anna Conda (Miranda Richardson), desperately wants bigger and better performances. This leads her to kidnap many forest animals, including Little Jack's father. With the help of her magician husband, The Ringmaster (Bill Nighy), Anna is able to hypnotize the animals into performing in her shows.
The Spiderwick Chronicles, 1h31
Directed by Mark Waters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films, Jumeaux ou jumelles
Actors Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger, Mary-Louise Parker, Martin Short, Nick Nolte, Ron Perlman
Roles Jared Grace / Simon Grace
Rating65% 3.251153.251153.251153.251153.25115
Recently divorced Helen Grace (Mary-Louise Parker) moves into the Spiderwick Estate with her children when it is given to her by her elderly aunt Lucinda (Joan Plowright), though identical twins Jared and Simon (Freddie Highmore) and their older sister Mallory (Sarah Bolger) do not want to move from the city. When Jared uncovers a dumbwaiter system behind a wall, Jared finds a monogrammed key and discovers the study of the late owner of the estate, Arthur Spiderwick (David Strathairn). Jared uses the key to open a chest. In it, he finds Spiderwick's field guide to faeries; although an attached note warns him not to read it, he does so anyway.
The Golden Compass, 1h53
Directed by Chris Weitz, Gábor Csupó
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Steampunk films, Children's films
Actors Nicole Kidman, Sam Elliott, Freddie Highmore, Eva Green, Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig
Roles Pantalaimon (voice)
Rating60% 3.0495653.0495653.0495653.0495653.049565
At the beginning of the film, we learn that the story takes place in one of many alternate worlds, in which a person's soul is contained within an animal companion called a dæmon (pronounced demon). The Magisterium, represented as a unified religious power, exercises power in the secular world. Lyra Belacqua, an orphan that resides in Jordan College, in a city that resembles Oxford, with her dæmon Pantalaimon (Pan), accidentally witnesses a Magisterium member poison her uncle's bottle of Tokay. Lyra then warns her uncle, Lord Asriel, who instructs her to remain in hiding. Lyra watches Asriel give a presentation regarding Dust, a particle that the Magisterium has forbidden the mention of. The college gives Asriel a grant to fund a northern expedition.
August Rush, 1h53
Directed by Kirsten Sheridan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Robin Williams, Terrence Howard, William Sadler
Roles August Rush
Rating73% 3.699873.699873.699873.699873.69987
In 1995, Lyla Novacek (Keri Russell) is a cellist living under strict rule of her father (William Sadler). Louis Connelly (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is the lead singer of "The Connelly Brothers", an Irish rock band. Lyla and Louis meet and sleep together. The day after, they separate in a hurry, and are unable to maintain contact as Lyla leaves for Chicago. Lyla realizes she is pregnant. After an argument with her father, she is struck by a car. Due to the accident trauma, she gives birth prematurely, and her father secretly puts her son up for adoption, allowing her to believe that the baby died.