Known For: English actor
Category: Actors
Occupation: actor, child actor, voice actor, film actor, screenwriter, television actor, television producer, director
Country: United Kingdom
City: London
Date of Birth: Friday, 14 February 1992
Language Arabic
Alfred Thomas Highmore is an English actor. He is known for his starring roles beginning as a child, in the films Finding Neverland (2004), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Arthur and the Invisibles (2006), August Rush (2007), and The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008). He won two consecutive Critics' Choice Movie Awards for Best Young Performer.
BirthPlace | Camden Town |
Education | Q797892, Q3560910, Q35794 |
Awards | Q601549, Q21096107, Q21096107, Q3053233, Q21096109, Q21096109, Q21096115, Q21096117 |
Father | Edward Highmore |
Height | 1.76 |
Wikipedia | Freddie_Highmore |
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X (Twitter) | freddiehighmore |
Highmore was born on 14 February 1992 in Camden Town, London. His mother, Sue Latimer, is a talent agent whose clients include actors Daniel Radcliffe and Imelda Staunton. His father is the former actor Edward Highmore. 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. In November 2007, Highmore moved to North London. In 2008, Highmore received A* grades in English language and English literature, maths, Spanish, French, Latin, geography, biology, chemistry, and physics in his GCSE exams. In 2010, Highmore once again achieved A* grades in maths, further maths, French, and Spanish in his A-level exams. From 2010 to 2014, Highmore attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he earned a double first in Spanish and Arabic. He also enrolled at the London School of Economics to study finance at summer school during the summer break at Cambridge in 2011. 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.