Freddie Highmore Net Worth 2023

Freddie Highmore Net Worth 2023: Alfred Thomas Highmore is an English actor born on 14 February 1992 in Camden Town, London. His mother, Sue Latimer, is a talent agent and his father is the former actor Edward Highmore, and he has a younger brother.

Highgate in North London served as his prior residence. Highmore attended a primary school in the London Borough of Barnet’s Hampstead Garden Suburb in Golders Green before winning a scholarship to attend Highgate School, an independent school in Highgate, London. Highmore received all A* results on his GCSE exam in 2008 for English language and literature, arithmetic, Spanish, French, Latin, geography, biology, chemistry, and physics. Highmore once again received all A* results on his A-level exam in 2010, this time in arithmetic, additional math, French, and Spanish. He graduated from Cambridge University’s Emmanuel College with a dual first degree in Spanish and Arabic between 2010 and 2014.

Highmore worked at Gulf Bank in Kuwait as an intern in 2012 and worked 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.

Freddie Highmore became prominent for his roles in Five Children and It (2004), Finding Neverland (2004), and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005).

Career

In the comedy Women Talking Dirty (1999), Highmore made his big-screen debut playing Helena Bonham Carter’s kid. In the family drama Two Brothers, he played the leading part after that (2004). After filming Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Two Brothers, Helena Bonham Carter’s Women Talking Dirty, and Ken Branagh’s Five Children and It, Highmore’s breakthrough part came when he was chosen to star with Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet in Finding Neverland (2004).

His co-star Kate Winslet described Freddie as simply the best young actor she had ever seen. As Peter in the Oscar-nominated Finding Neverland, Highmore rose to fame. Johnny Depp was so impressed that he pushed for Highmore to star opposite him again in Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

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He was then cast in the title role of Charlie Bucket in Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) and was reportedly recommended by co-star Johnny Depp. Roles in A Good Year (2006) and Arthur and the Invisibles (2006) soon followed before he portrayed the title role in August Rush (2007), opposite Keri Russell and Robin Williams. Whilst 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.

Achieving straight A’s in all his GCSE and A-level exams, Freddie graduated with a double first in Arabic and Spanish from the University of Cambridge. In 2013, he began starring as the iconic Norman Bates in the drama-thriller series Bates Motel (2013), alongside Vera Farmiga as his mother.

Freddie Highmore starred in Stephen Poliakoff’s Close to the Enemy and played alongside Timothy Spall and John Hurt in Nick Hamm’s The Journey.

Highmore finished filming as the eponymous Norman Bates in the fifth and final season of the Emmy-nominated Bates Motel in 2016, for which he received a People’s Choice Award for Best Actor. Highmore authored two episodes in Season 5, where he also made his directing debut, after having written one episode in Season 4. Throughout the course of the series, Highmore’s performance garnered a great deal of praise, and he got several nominations for Saturn Awards and Critics’ Choice Television Awards.

In 2017 he starred in The Good Doctor as Shaun Murphy -a young autistic surgeon who has savant syndrome, relocates from quiet country life to join the surgical unit at the prestigious San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital. Shaun is alone in the world and unable to personally connect with those around him, but he finds his niche using his extraordinary medical skill and intuition to save lives and challenge the skepticism of his colleagues.

Personal life

In a recent interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in September 2021, Freddie Highmore disclosed that he had recently wed. Freddie Highmore is married to Klarissa Munz. She works as a web developer full-time. Highmore avoids social media and resides in London. During his time on the show Bates Motel, Highmore grew close to his co-star Vera Farmiga and ended up being her son’s godfather. Along with English, Highmore is also a native speaker of French, Spanish, and Arabic.