Biography
Alfred Thomas Highmore (born February 14, 1992) is an English actor. He is known for his starring roles beginning as a child, in the films Finding Neverland (2004), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), August Rush (2007), and The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008). He won two consecutive Critics' Choice Movie Awards for Best Young Performer. Highmore starred as Norman Bates in the drama-thriller series Bates Motel (2013–2017), for which he was nominated three times for the Critics' Choice Televi...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Colour of My Room
2024
Producer
When Sylvie’s best friend comes to visit her on the coast, it exposes just how far the gulf between their lives has grown.

The Canterville Ghost
2023
as Henry Duke of Cheshire (voice)
An American family moves in to the Canterville Chase, a London mansion that has been haunted by ghost Sir Simon De Canterville for 300 years.

The Vault
2021
as Thom
Madrid, Spain, 2010. While the whole city follows the national team's successful participation in the World Cup, a group of daring thieves look for a ...

The Vault
2021
Producer
Madrid, Spain, 2010. While the whole city follows the national team's successful participation in the World Cup, a group of daring thieves look for a ...

Dragon Rider
2020
as Ben (voice)
An unlikely trio of heroes – a dragon, a boy and a forest brownie – embark on an epic adventure to find the “Rim of Heaven” - the mythological safe ha...

Almost Friends
2017
as Charlie Brenner
A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee sho...

Tour de Pharmacy
2017
as Young Adrian Baton
A mockumentary that chronicles the prevalence of doping in the world of professional cycling.

The Journey
2017
as Jack
Firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland, are for...

Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013
as Justin (voice)
A heart-warming tale about friendship, honor & courage, which sees a young boy become a man as he embarks on a quest to become a knight.

The Art of Getting By
2011
as George Zinavoy
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,...

Toast
2010
as Nigel Slater
Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained ...

Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds
2010
as Arthur Montgomery
With Maltazard now seven feet tall and Arthur still two inches small, our hero must find a way to grow back to his normal size and stop the Evil M onc...

Master Harold... and the Boys
2010
as Hally Ballard
This movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck between his intolerant father's outlook of him and those of his caretaker, Sam....

Astro Boy vs The Junkyard Pirates
2010
as Astro Boy (voice)
Astro Boy and the Earth kids encounter Junkyard Pirates while looking for scraps in the junkyard.

Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard
2009
as Arthur Montgomery
Arthur answers a distress call from Princess Selenia, who is menaced by the nefarious Maltazard.

Astro Boy
2009
as Astro / Toby (voice)
Set in the futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy (Atom) is a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he...

The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008
as Jared Grace / Simon Grace
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselv...

The Golden Compass
2007
as Pantalaimon (voice)
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherwor...

August Rush
2007
as August Rush
Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her, h...

Arthur and the Invisibles
2006
as Arthur Montgomery
Arthur is a spirited ten-year old whose parents are away looking for work, whose eccentric grandfather has been missing for several years, and who liv...

A Good Year
2006
as Young Max Skinner
Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005
as Charlie Bucket
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.

Finding Neverland
2004
as Peter Llewelyn Davies
During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life ...

Five Children and It
2004
as Robert
A Psammead is 'It', an ancient, irritable, ugly sand fairy, which five children find one day in a gravel pit. As a reward for finding him, It grants t...

Two Brothers
2004
as Raoul Normandin
Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemies by an explorer (Pearce) who inadvertently forces...

Women Talking Dirty
2001
as Sam
A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.
Happy Birthday Shakespeare
2000
as Steven Green
Family man Will Green, a tourist bus driver is convinced that life would be better if he and his family moved to the birthplace of his favourite man S...
Sinner v. Saints
N/A
Set in 1970s L.A. and London, based on the extraordinary real-life scandal that made headlines worldwide, involving an eccentric MENSA beauty queen wh...