Freddie Highmore

Now recognized globally as ABC’s “The Good Doctor,” Freddie Highmore established himself as a talent in the film world as a young child. Previously Empire Award’s Most Promising Newcomer, Highmore is a double SAG nominee and twice winner of the Film Critics’ award for the world’s Best Young Actor.

Having shot “Two Brothers,” directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, “Women Talking Dirty” with Helena Bonham Carter and “Five Children and It” with Kenneth Branagh, Highmore came to prominence as Peter in the Oscar®-nominated “Finding Neverland.” His co-star Kate Winslet described Highmore as simply the best young actor she had ever seen. Johnny Depp was so impressed that he pushed for Highmore to star opposite him again in Tim Burton’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”

After appearing alongside Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott’s “A Good Year,” Highmore played the title role in Luc Besson’s “Arthur and the Invisibles” trilogy, becoming fluent in French. In America, Highmore took the central character in the Oscar-nominated “August Rush” with Robin Williams and then starred opposite himself playing twins in Paramount’s “The Spiderwick Chronicles.” Highmore reunited with Helena Bonham Carter as his mother for a third time filming “Toast” and teamed with Emma Roberts in Twentieth Century Fox’s ”The Art of Getting By.”

Continuing his education, Highmore voiced “Astro Boy,” “The Golden Compass” and “Justin and the Knights of Valour,” as well as shooting the title role in the apartheid era “Master Harold and the Boys” in South Africa.

Whilst studying Spanish and Arabic at the University of Cambridge, where he graduated with a double first, Highmore shot the first of five series of NBC/Universal’s Emmy®-nominated “Bates Motel” portraying Hitchcock’s iconic Norman Bates. He followed that with leads in Stephen Poliakoff’s “Close to the Enemy” and Nick Hamm’s “The Journey” for the BBC.

Highmore produced and starred in “Way Down” shot in Madrid which is due for release in 2021. Earlier this year, Highmore shot “Leonardo” in Rome for Sony Pictures which he is also co-producing.

Highmore is currently filming the fourth season of “The Good Doctor,” in which he plays the Golden Globe®-nominated lead Dr. Shaun Murphy. He also serves on the series as director, writer and producer.