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Freddie Highmore on Getting Married, Smuggling “Cocaine” as a Child & The Good Doctor Storylines

Freddie talks about his run in with customs in Cambodia when he was 10 years old, living in Vancouver, going on a whale...

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Freddie Highmore does not have autism. However, his commitment to authentically represent his character's experiences has been remarkable. Highmore has family members with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), lending a personal perspective to his role. But his understanding doesn't stop there.
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 Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series and won a People's Choice Award, and Dr. Shaun Murphy in the ABC drama series The Good Doctor (2017–2024), for which he ...
Bonaventure Hospital. Everything's Gonna Be Okay star Kayla Cromer and Unsolved's Wavyy Jonez have been cast in Season 7, the ABC drama's final season. Cromer is the first person with autism to play an autistic character in a series regular role on American television.
That would be the thing that certainly makes me most proud, and that was always our aim and intention.” While Highmore says it's hard to say goodbye to his character, parts of him will always remain. “He is so hopeful and optimistic,” he says.
Freddie Highmore, the lead actor in Dr. Shaun Murphy's role in The Good Doctor, plays a surgeon that has autism spectrum disorder. However, Freddie doesn't have autism or any of its primary symptoms.