Freddie Highmore

Freddie Highmore
Highmore in March 2013
Born	Alfred Thomas Highmore (1992-02-14) 14 February 1992 (age 24) Camden Town, London, England, UK
Alma mater	Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1999–present
Parents	Edward Highmore (father) Sue Latimer (mother)

Alfred Thomas "Freddie" Highmore (born 14 February 1992) is an English actor. He made his acting debut in the comedy film Women Talking Dirty (1999), and has since starred in 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), Toast (2010), and The Art of Getting By (2011). He won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer in two consecutive years (2004–05).

Since 2013, Highmore has starred as Norman Bates in the A&E drama-thriller series Bates Motel, for which he was twice nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series.

Highmore was born on 14 February 1992 in Camden Town, London, England, 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" Highmore, born in 1995. Highmore's home is in Highgate, an area of North London. Highmore was educated at a primary school in Hampstead Garden Suburb in Hampstead in North London, and at Highgate School, an independent school in Highgate, followed by Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he earned a Double First in Spanish and Arabic.