Charlie Cox

Charlie Cox
Cox at the 2016 Wizard World Chicago
Born	Charlie Thomas Cox (1982-12-15) 15 December 1982 (age 34) London, England, UK
Alma mater	Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2002–present
Partner(s)	Samantha Thomas
Children	1

Charlie Thomas Cox (born 15 December 1982) is an English actor known for his roles as Matt Murdock / Daredevil in Marvel's Daredevil TV series by Netflix, Tristan Thorn in Stardust and Owen Sleater in the second and third seasons of HBO's Boardwalk Empire.

Charlie Thomas Cox, the youngest of five children, was born in London, England, and brought up in East Sussex. He is the son of Patricia C. A. "Tricia" (née Harley) and Andrew Frederick Seaforth Cox, who is a publisher. He has one brother, Toby (born 1974), and three half-siblings from his father's first marriage: Emma, Zoe and Oliver.

Cox was raised Roman Catholic and was educated at two independent schools: at Ashdown House School in the village of Forest Row in East Sussex and Sherborne School in the market town of Sherborne in Dorset. He later trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol.

Cox played the role of Tristan Thorn in the 2007 film Stardust. He was next seen in the 2008 film Stone of Destiny in which he played Ian Hamilton. He made his West End debut in Harold Pinter's The Collection at the Ambassadors Theatre in London, and in September 2010 he played the closeted gay Duke of Crowborough in the first episode of the ITV drama series Downton Abbey. He also appeared in Kleist's The Prince of Homburg, playing the title role, at the Donmar Warehouse in London in 2010. He played the part of St. Josemaría Escrivá in the 2011 Roland Joffé film There Be Dragons. Also in 2011, Cox signed on to play a recurring role in the second season of the Martin Scorsese-produced HBO original series Boardwalk Empire as Owen Sleater, an Irish immigrant with ties to the IRA. His character became a regular for the series' third season, which was broadcast in September 2012.