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As a young child, Freddie Highmore established himself as a leading talent in the film world. Previously Empire Award's Most Promising Newcomer, Highmore is a double SAG nominee and was twice winner of the Film Critics' award for the world's Best Young Actor.
Having shot Two Brothers, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud; Women Talking Dirty, with Helena Bonham Carter; and Five Children and It, with Ken Branagh, Highmore came to prominence as Peter in the Oscar-nominated Finding Neverland. His co-star Kate Winslet described Freddie as simply the best young actor she had ever seen. Johnny Depp was so impressed that he pushed for Highmore to star opposite him again in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
In America, Highmore took the central character in the Oscar-nominated August Rush, with Robin Williams, and starred opposite himself, playing twins in Paramount's The Spiderwick Chronicles. Freddie reunited with Helena Bonham Carter as his mother for a third time filming Toast and returned to New York to team with Emma Roberts in Twentieth Century Fox's The Art of Getting By.
Whilst continuing his education, Highmore voiced Astro Boy, The Golden Compass and Justin and the Knights of Valour, as well as shooting the title role in the apartheid era Master Harold ...and the Boys in South Africa. Achieving straight A's in all his GCSE and A-level exams, Freddie graduated with a double first in Arabic and Spanish from the University of Cambridge.
In 2016, Highmore concluded filming on the fifth and final season of the Emmy-nominated Bates Motel as the iconic Norman Bates, for which he was awarded a People's Choice Award for Best Actor. Having written an episode in Season Four, Highmore wrote a further two episodes in Season Five where he also made his directorial debut.
June 2017 saw the release of the HBO mockumentary Tour de Pharmacy, directed by Jake Szymanski, in which Highmore appears alongside Andy Samberg. You can now see Highmore starring as Dr. Shaun Murphy on last fall's No. 1 new drama series, ABC's The Good Doctor, currently on its second season.
Hill Harper is an award-winning actor, bestselling author and philanthropist. Harper starred on the hit drama CSI: NY, HLN's How It Really Happened with Hill Harper, and the award-winning series Homeland. This fall, Harper will continue his role as Dr. Marcus Andrews on last fall's No. 1 new drama series, ABC's The Good Doctor. He can also be be seen in the Tupac Shakur biopic, All Eyez on Me.
Harper is the author of four New York Times bestsellers and has earned seven NAACP Image Awards for his writing and acting. Additionally, Harper founded The Manifest Your Destiny Foundation, which is dedicated to empowering underserved youth through mentorship, scholarship, and grant programs.
Harper graduated magna cum laude as valedictorian of his department with a bachelor's degree from Brown University and cum laude with a Juris Doctorate degree from Harvard Law School. He also holds a master's degree with honors from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and holds Honorary Doctoral Degrees from Winston-Salem State University, Cheyney University, Westfield State College, Tougaloo College, Le-Moyne Owen College, Dillard University and Howard University.
Harper currently serves on the President's Cancer Panel, having been appointed by President Obama in 2011. Harper travels worldwide as a motivational speaker, addressing current affairs and life-awakening topics to a wide array of audiences of youth, adults, couples and business leaders. In 2014, People Magazine named him one of its "Sexiest Men Alive."
Schiff is currently receiving rave reviews and Emmy buzz for his role as Dr. Aaron Glassman on last fall's No. 1 new drama series, ABC's The Good Doctor, which stars Freddie Highmore, the incredibly gifted young surgeon with savant syndrome. Proclaims Variety, "It's seemingly impossible to make Richard Schiff uninteresting on screen, so he's a welcome sight as a doctor at the hospital who fights to get Shaun on the staff." The Good Doctor is ABC's most-watched freshman series in 13 years, averaging 15.4 million viewers during its first season.
Schiff can also be seen in HBO's Ballers playing Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's very successful and demanding boss, Brett Anderson. In addition, he has a recurring role on STARZ's Counterpart, now in production on its second season. Schiff's other television roles include his much-celebrated portrayal of White House Communications Director Toby Ziegler on The West Wing, for which he received the Best Supporting Actor Emmy Award and garnered a total of three Emmy nominations. More recently, he played Don Cheadle's conniving boss in Showtime's House of Lies. In WGN America's period drama, Manhattan, he played the mysterious Mr. Fisher tasked with finding spies who are working in the Manhattan project. In Direct TV's crime drama Rogue, he played a Machiavellian power broker and in Showtime's The Affair he played a high-profile city attorney.
On the feature front, Schiff has completed production on the upcoming films Clemency, with Alfre Woodard; Vandal, a story about a young leader of a legendary Miami graffiti crew; and the indie feature Safe Spaces. Having established a prolific film career, his recent appearances include Shock and Awe, Man of Steel, The Gambler, Kill the Messenger, Made in Dagenham and The Infidel. His extensive film credits number more than 60, including The Lost World: Jurassic Park, I Am Sam, the Oscar-nominated biopic Ray, Se7en, Hoffa, Malcolm X, People I Know, Forces of Nature, City Hall,Crazy in Alabama, Deep Impact, Living Out Loud, Doctor Dolittle, My Life and The Hudsucker Proxy, among numerous others.
Schiff began his career in New York, where he founded and served as the artistic director of the Manhattan Repertory Theater and directed off-Broadway productions, including Antigone, starring Angela Bassett. During this time, Schiff also completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theater at City College of New York (CCNY). He then performed several plays with Tim Robbins' Actors' Gang. He has maintained a strong presence in theater, appearing on Broadway opposite Al Pacino in Glengarry Glen Ross, as well as in the lead role in Eugene O'Neill's Hughie at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. He starred in the one-man show Underneath the Lintel in London's West End, after performing the play previously at the George Street Playhouse. He has been the recipient of an Ovation Theater Award and a Drama-Logue Award.
In 2000, Schiff received the prestigious Townsend Harris medal from CCNY for Outstanding post-graduate achievement. Past recipients include author Upton Sinclair, actor Edward G. Robinson and Dr. Jonas Salk. In 2004, CCNY granted Schiff the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree, along with President Clinton and novelist Walter Mosley.
Christina Chang has had many notable roles on hit series throughout her career. She currently stars in last fall's No. 1 new drama series, The Good Doctor, created by David Shore. Chang was a recurring character in the first season and was promoted to a series regular for Season 2. She stars as Dr. Audrey Lim, who has emerged as a formidable counterpart to Dr. Neil Melendez (Nicholas Gonzalez), with the duo often splitting up the growing group of residents between them.
Chang was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, by her Chinese-Filipino father and American mother. At age 17, she moved to the United States to study theater and film in her mother's home state of Kansas and later studied acting in Seattle. Chang went on to gain a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Washington in Seattle. From there, she progressed to the off-Broadway production of Tina Landau's The Trojan Women.
She has recurred and guested on many well-known television series since, including Nashville, Desperate Housewives, 24 and Rizzoli & Isles. Additionally, she appeared in the feature films Random Hearts, 28 Days, Deadline and Girls Club.
Fiona Gubelmann is best known as the female lead opposite Elijah Wood on the critically acclaimed FX series Wilfred. She currently plays Dr. Morgan Reznick in last fall's No. 1 new drama series, ABC's The Good Doctor, becoming a series regular beginning with Season 2, after recurring in the last five episodes of Season 1.
Will Yun Lee can be seen as Dr. Alex Park in last fall's No. 1 new drama series, ABC's The Good Doctor. Based on the South Korean series of the same name, the show premiered in September 2017 and received a great amount of viewership and favorable reviews, and as a result, was renewed for a second season. Returning this fall, Lee will reprise his role as a series regular.
On television, Lee previously starred as Taka, one of the leading roles of USA Network's ongoing series Falling Water, directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadilla. The supernatural, drama-mystery centered on three strangers who, after recognizing they were dreaming parts of the same dream, realized that the future of the world lies in their hands. Most recently, Lee appeared as Takeshi Kovacs in Netflix's original series Altered Carbon, opposite Joel Kinnaman. Based on the cyberpunk noir novel of the same name by Richard K. Morgan, the series is set more than 300 years into the future and follows the journey of a prisoner returning to life in a new body, compelled to solve a mind-bending murder in order to obtain his freedom. The series premiered February 2, 2018, and is currently streaming on Netflix.
Additional television credits include his role as Sang Min in Hawaii Five-0; Kwon in the Cinemax series Strike Back, opposite Michelle Yeoh; and Mr. Gus in HBO's final season of Alan Ball's True Blood.
On the feature side, Lee can recently be seen next as Agent Park in New Line Cinema's science fiction, monster film, Rampage, opposite Dwayne Johnson and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. The movie premiered on April 4, 2018. Additional film credits include Dr. Kim Park in Warner Bros.' blockbuster standout, San Andreas, opposite Dwayne Johnson and Paul Giamatti; supporting role as Timothy Cress in Spy, starring Melissa McCarthy, Jude Law, Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale, among others; Harada in Twentieth Century Fox's The Wolverine, opposite Hugh Jackman; Captain Cho in FilmNation's Red Dawn, opposite Chris Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson; and Marek in Colombia Pictures Total Recall, opposite Colin Farrell.
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