Occupation Actor Height 1.78 m Years active 2002–present Nationality British | Name Charlie Cox Parents Andrew Cox, Trisha Cox Role Actor | |
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Full Name Charlie Thomas Cox Movies and TV shows Similar People Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rosario Dawson, Felicity Jones | ||
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Charlie Thomas Cox (born 15 December 1982) is an English actor known for his roles as Matt Murdock / Daredevil in Marvel's Daredevil TV series by Netflix, Tristan Thorn in Stardust, Jonathan Hellyer Jones in The Theory of Everything and Owen Sleater in the second and third seasons of HBO's Boardwalk Empire.
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- Daredevil Cast Answer Your Questions The Superhero Show
- DAREDEVIL Season 3 interviews Charlie Cox Woll DOnofrio Bethel Ali Whalley Henson
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- Filmography
- References
DAREDEVIL Season 3 interviews - Charlie Cox, Woll, D'Onofrio, Bethel, Ali, Whalley, Henson
Early life
Charlie Thomas Cox, the youngest of five children, was born in London, England, and brought up in East Sussex. He is the son of Patricia C. A. "Tricia" (née Harley) and Andrew Frederick Seaforth Cox, who is a publisher. He has one brother, Toby (born 1974), and three half-siblings from his father's first marriage: Emma, Zoe and Oliver.
Cox was raised Roman Catholic and was educated at two independent schools: at Ashdown House School in the village of Forest Row in East Sussex and Sherborne School in the market town of Sherborne in Dorset. He later trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol.
Career
Cox played the role of Tristan Thorn in the 2007 film Stardust. He was next seen in the 2008 film Stone of Destiny in which he played Ian Hamilton. He made his West End debut in Harold Pinter's The Collection at the Ambassadors Theatre in London, and in September 2010 he played the closeted gay Duke of Crowborough in the first episode of the ITV drama series Downton Abbey. He also appeared in Kleist's The Prince of Homburg, playing the title role, at the Donmar Warehouse in London in 2010. He played the part of St. Josemaría Escrivá in the 2011 Roland Joffé film There Be Dragons. Also in 2011, Cox signed on to play a recurring role in the second season of the Martin Scorsese-produced HBO original series Boardwalk Empire as Owen Sleater, an Irish enforcer with ties to the IRA. His character became a regular for the series' third season, which was broadcast in September 2012.
Since 2015, Cox has portrayed Matt Murdock in Marvel's Daredevil TV series as well as the 2017 team-up miniseries event The Defenders, produced and released through Netflix. His performance was praised and given a Helen Keller Achievement Award for his role by the American Foundation for the Blind. His next feature film role will be opposite Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone and others in Night in Hatton Garden, based on the true story of the 2015 Hatton Garden jewelry heist in London; the film reunites him with James Marsh, who directed him in 2014's The Theory of Everything.
Personal life
In October 2016, Cox became a father to his first child, a daughter, with his girlfriend, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Jessica Jones co-producer Samantha Thomas.