Johnny Depp requested him to play Charlie Bucket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005).Finding Neverland (2004) director Marc Forster decided to schedule one of Highmore's toughest scenes (where he tears up a book and demolishes a playhouse) on his second day of filming, deliberately so other cast members could see the child act and change their attitude towards working with him.Is a soccer fan.Has said he is not planning to continue acting as an adult.His real father, Edward Highmore, played his fath - www.imdb.com

British performer Freddie Highmore began his acting career in 1999 at the age of seven. In 2005 he was only twelve years old and had already built up a pretty impressive resumé. Highmore landed his first movie role at the age of seven in Women Talking Dirty, playing opposite veteran actress Helena Bonham Carter (1966–). From then on the plucky lad with the big, brown eyes and adorably large ears became a familiar face to Brits who caught him in small parts on television and in film. - www.notablebiographies.com

Thanks to innate talent, good timing and a talent agent mother, Freddie Highmore blossomed rather quickly into a fine actor by the time he was 12 year-old when he starred in the wildly successful remake, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (2005). Prior to his film-stealing turn as the lucky lad who wins a golden ticket good for one tour of Willy Wonka’s wondrous chocolate factory, Highmore established himself as a young actor to watch with his pivotal performance in the Oscar-nominated “Finding Nev - movies.yahoo.com