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Freddie Highmore
Highmore was born in Camden, London, 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"), born in 1995. Highmore's home is in Highgate, a suburb of north London.
Highmore began with small parts on TV at the age of 7. In two movies Highmore played with members of his family. His brother Bertie played his brother in Women Talking Dirty. Also his father Edward played the father in Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story.
In 2004, he had a breakthrough with his critically acclaimed performance as troubled Peter Llewelyn Davies in Finding Neverland. Highmore received several nominations and awards for the role, including a Broadcast Film Critics Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. In 2005, he played the part of the hard-working Charlie Bucket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (adapted from the book by Roald Dahl). He was reportedly recommended for the role by the film's star Johnny Depp, who starred in Finding Neverland and was impressed by the young actor's performance.
Highmore next appeared as the title character in August Rush with Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Robin Williams. The story is about a musical prodigy and his journey to find his parents after they are separated at his birth. This movie received a wide release on 21 November 2007. He starred in The Spiderwick Chronicles, based on the popular children's stories, released in the United States in February 2008. He played American twins Simon and Jared Grace, alongside Sarah Bolger as their sister Mallory Grace.
He took the main role in Toast, a BBC autobiographical film about Nigel Slater, the chef, which was shown on Thursday, 30 December 2010. In May 2011, Highmore agreed to appear in a short mockumentary film about his life at university. The plot centres around how three mentors, named Burgis, Clancy and Brown, helped him balance the conflicting pressures of celebrity and academia.[4] He also starred alongside Emma Roberts in 2011's romantic comedy The Art of Getting By.
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Highmore to star in Superhero movie -
26 February 2009
-Child star Freddie Highmore has signed up to star in a new superhero movie with a twist.-
-The Charlie and the Chocolate Factory actor, 16, will play a teenager who uses a fictional comic book hero to help him escape his battle with leukaemia.-
- Death of a Superhero, b
Freddie Highmore - what members say
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A Affecting But Adoreable Film. 1 July 2009
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Five Children and It 9 March 2005
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A charming and moving fairytale 7 November 2004
Freddie Highmore - filmography
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The Art of Getting By
(2011)
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano
Director: Gavin Wiesen
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George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a popular but complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred spirit.
 
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Astro Boy - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Kristen Bell, Charlize Theron
Director: David Bowers
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Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist named Dr. Tenma. Powered by positive "blue" energy, Astro Boy is endowed with super strength, x-ray vision, unbelievable speed and the ability to fly. Embarking on a journey in ..read more »
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Astro Boy
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Kristen Bell, Charlize Theron
Director: David Bowers
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Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist named Dr. Tenma. Powered by positive "blue" energy, Astro Boy is endowed with super strength, x-ray vision, unbelievable speed and the ability to fly. Embarking on a journey in ..read more »
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Homework
(2010)
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano
Director: Gavin Wiesen
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George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a popular but complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred spirit.
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Toast
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Selina Cadell, Helena Bonham-Carter, Nigel Slater
Director: S.J. Clarkson
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Nigel Slater has been a good cook for as long as he could remember, far surpassing his mothers dire culinary skills. Sadly, Nigel's mother loses the battle against a chronic illness and his father soon begins to spend more and more time with newly-divorced cleaner Mrs Potter (Helena Bonham Carter). ..read more »
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Arthur and the Two Worlds War
(2010)
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Selena Gomez, Jimmy Fallon
Director: Luc Besson
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Maltazard, the Evil M, is now 7 feet tall and evolving among the humans, causing terror wherever he goes. His goal is simple: forming an army of giant henchmen and ruling over the universe. Meanwhile, Arthur is still a Minimoy, and thus in a state where he's unable to fend him off. With the help of ..read more »
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Arthur And The Great Adventure
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Selena Gomez, will.i.am, Jimmy Fallon
Director: Luc Besson
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Visionary French filmmaker Luc Besson (THE BIG BLUE) continues the tale that began in ARTHUR AND THE INVISIBLES with this tale of a young boy who embarks on a wondrous journey into a magical land of microscopic creatures. Freddie Highmore (FINDING NEVERLAND) and Mia Farrow (HANNAH AND HER SISTERS) ..read more »
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The Spiderwick Chronicles
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Sarah Bolger, Freddie Highmore, Seth Rogen
Director: Mark Waters
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Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
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August Rush
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Director: Kirsten Sheridan
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Freddie Highmore (CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY) stars as August Rush, a musically gifted boy who has spent his childhood in an orphanage. But August's parents are alive, and he travels to New York City to perform and search for his mother and father (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Meyers).
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Arthur and the Invisibles
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow, Madonna
Director: Luc Besson
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Ten-year-old Arthur, in a bid to save his grandfather's house from being demolished, goes looking for some much-fabled hidden treasure in the land of the Minimoys, a tiny people living in harmony with nature.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - HD
(2005)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Tim Burton
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Who better to bring Roald Dahl's adored children's story to life than the mastermind behind inventive films like EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and BEETLEJUICE? From Tim Burton's opening shot against Danny Elfman's eerie score this CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY is recognisably darker than the Mel Stuart-..read more »
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Tim Burton
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Most nights in the Bucket home, dinner is a watered-down bowl of cabbage soup, which young Charlie gladly shares with his mother (HELENA BONHAM CARTER) and father (NOAH TAYLOR) and both pairs of grandparents. Theirs is a tiny, tumbledown, drafty old house but it is filled with love. Every night, ..read more »
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Finding Neverland
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie
Director: Marc Forster
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It all begins as successful Scottish playwright J.M. Barrie watches his latest play open to a ho-hum reaction among the polite society of Edwardian England. A literary genius of his times but bored by the same old themes, Barrie is clearly in need of some serious inspiration. Unexpectedly, he finds ..read more »
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Two Brothers
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Freddie Highmore
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
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French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud is known for tackling profound subject matter in films such as QUEST FOR FIRE, SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET, and ENEMY AT THE GATES. Occasionally he takes refuge in lighter films. After his first successful animal tale, THE BEAR (1989), Annaud's second wildlife film is ..read more »
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Finding Neverland - Blu-ray
(2004)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie
Director: Marc Forster
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Most people know the story of Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up. Director Marc Forster's (MONSTER'S BALL) FINDING NEVERLAND delves deeper, depicting a fictionalised account of the family and events that inspired the classic tale. At the turn of the 20th Century, Scottish playwright J.M. ..read more »
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Five Children And It
(2004)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Zoe Wanamaker, Freddie Highmore
Director: John Stephenson
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What they thought was going to be a dull summer in the country is about to become the most exciting adventure of their lives, when five children dig up an eight thousand year old sand-fairy who is prepared to make their wildest dreams come true... at a price.
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...tiful that it makes you feel like you are right there with them. Guy Pearce and Freddie Highmore are the only known names that I know, each giving excellent pefomances if only ...
