Highmore, Freddie 1992-

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Highmore, Freddie 1992-

PERSONAL

Birthname Alfred Thomas Highmore; born February 14, 1992, in London, England; son of Edward Highmore and Sue Latimer.

Addresses:

Agent—Artists Rights Group Limited, 4 Great Portand St., London, W1W 8PA, United Kingdom; Special Artists Agency, 9465 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 890, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career:

Actor.

Awards, Honors:

Phoenix Film Critics Society Award, best performance by a youth in a lead or supporting role—male, 2004, Saturn Award nomination, best performance by a younger actor, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, Critics Choice Award, best young actor, Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, Empire Award, best newcomer, Sierra Award, youth in film, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards, MTV Movie Award nomination, breakthrough male, Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture (with others) and outstanding performance by a male actor in a supporting role, Young Artist Award (with others), best performance in a feature film—young ensemble cast, Young Artist Award nomination, best performance in a feature film—leading young actor, 2005, for Finding Neverland; Golden Satellite Award, outstanding new talent, International Press Academy, 2005; Phoenix Film Critics Society Award, best performance by a youth in a lead or supporting role—male, 2005, Saturn Award nomination, best performance by a younger actor, Critics Choice Award, best young actor, Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, Young Artist Award nomination, best performance in a feature film, 2006, for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Critics Choice Award nomination, best young actor, Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, 2007, for A Good Year; Saturn Award nomination, best performance by a younger actor, Critics Choice Award nomination, best young actor, Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, 2008, for August Rush;

CREDITS

Film Appearances:

Sam, Women Talking Dirty, Vision Video, 1999.

Young Raoul, Deux freres (also known as Two Brothers), Universal, 2004.

Peter Llewelyn Davies, Finding Neverland, Buena Vista, 2004.

Robert, Five Children and It (also known as 5 Children & It and Cinq enfants et moi), Capitol, 2004.

Charlie Bucket, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (also known as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The IMAX Experience), Warner Bros., 2005.

Young Max Skinner, A Good Year, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2006.

Arthur, Arthur et les Minimoys (also known as Arthur and the Invisibles and Arthur and the Minimoys), MGM, 2006.

Evan Taylor ‘August Rush’, August Rush, Warner Bros., 2007.

Voice of Pantalaimon, The Golden Compass, New Line Cinema, 2007.

Jared Grace, The Spiderwick Chronicles (also known as The Spiderwick Chronicles: The IMAX Experience), Paramount, 2008.

Eddie Dickens and the Awful End, Warner Bros., 2008.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Little boy, Walking on the Moon, ITV, 1999.

Television Appearances; Miniseries:

Steve Green, Happy Birthday Shakespeare, BBC1 and BBC America, 2000.

Young Arthur, The Mists of Avalon (also known as Die Nebel von Avalon), TNT, 2001.

Son at playground, Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story, CBS, 2001.

Oscar Bingley, I Saw You, ITV, 2002.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Raoul, "Zwei Bruder-Uberlebenskampf der Tiger," Service Natur, 2004.

Film '72 (also known as Film 2004), 2004.

The Oprah Winfrey Show (also known as Oprah), syndicated, 2004.

Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show, syndicated, 2004.

The Early Show, CBS, 2005.

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," HBO First Look, HBO, 2005.

Live with Regis and Kelly, syndicated, 2005.

Today (also known as NBC News Today and The Today Show), NBC, 2005.

Rove Live, Ten Network, 2005.

HypaSpace (also known as HypaSpace Daily and HypaSpace Weekly), Space Channel, 2007.

CMT Top 20 Countdown, 2007.

London Tonight (also known as ITV London Tonight), 2007.

Access Hollywood, syndicated, 2007.

Martha, syndicated, 2008.

Entertainment Tonight (also known as E.T., ET Weekend, Entertainment This Week and This Week in Entertainment), syndicated, 2008.

Television Appearances; Specials:

11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, TNT, 2005.

The Wonderful World of Roald Dahl, Channel 5, 2005.

Arthur, Arthur and the Invisibles: The Making of the Year's Greatest Adventure, ABC Family, 2007.

RECORDINGS

Video Games:

Voice of Charlie Bucket, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Take Two Interactive, 2005.

Voice of Pantalaimon, The Golden Compass, Sega, 2007.

Videos:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Different Faces, Different Flavors, Warner Home Video, 2005.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Designer Chocolate, Warner Home Video, 2005.

Finding Neverland: On the Red Carpet, 2005.

Charlie Bucket, Becoming Oompa-Loompa, Warner Bros., 2005.

Charlie Bucket, Attack of the Squirrels, Warner Bros., 2005.

Postcards from Provence, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2007.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

USA Today, February 12, 2008.

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