Charlie Cox Biography

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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 and Owen Sleater in the second and third seasons of HBO's Boardwalk Empire.

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" (ne 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. Josemara Escriv in the 2011 Roland Joff 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 immigrant 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, 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.

Personal life

In October 2016 Cox became a father to his first child with his girlfriend, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Jessica Jones producer Samantha Thomas.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	dot the i	Theo
2004	The Merchant of Venice	Lorenzo
2005	Things to Do Before You're 30	Danny
2005	Casanova	Giovanni Bruni
2006	The Maidens' Conspiracy	Diafebus
2007	Stardust	Tristan Thorn
2008	Harry, Henry and the Prostitute	Harry	Short film
2008	Stone of Destiny	Ian Hamilton
2009	Big Guy	Chuck	Short film
2009	Perfect	Paul	Short film
2009	Glorious 39	Lawrence
2011	There Be Dragons	Josemara Escriv
2011	Nancy, Sid and Sergio	Sergio	Short film
2012	A Sunny Morning	Adam	Short film
2013	Hello Carter	Carter
2014	The Theory of Everything	Jonathan Hellyer Jones
2014	Dracula Untold	Caligula	Scenes cut
2016	Eat Local	Henry

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Judge John Deed	Young Vicar	Episode: "Everyone's Child"
2006	Lewis	Danny Griffon	Pilot
2006	A for Andromeda	Dennis Bridger	Television film
2010	Downton Abbey	Duke of Crowborough	Episode "1.1"
2011	Moby Dick	Ishmael	2 episodes
2011-2012	Boardwalk Empire	Owen Sleater	20 episodes
2013	The Ordained	Tom Reilly	Pilot
2013	Legacy	Charles Thoroughgood	Television film
2015-present	Daredevil	Matt Murdock / Daredevil	Main role
2017	The Defenders		Main role

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	'Tis Pity She's a Whore	Giovanni	Southwark Playhouse
2008	The Collection	Bill	Ambassadors Theatre
2010	The Prince of Homburg	The Prince of Homburg	Donmar Warehouse
2016	Incognito	Henry Maison, Michael Wolf, Hans Albert Einstein, Ben Murphy, Freddy Myers, Greg Barraclough	Manhattan Theatre Club

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Recipient	Result
2012	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Boardwalk Empire
2015	Helen Keller Achievement Awards	Honoree	Daredevil
	Online Film & Television Association Awards	Best New Titles Sequence
2017	Saturn Awards	Best Actor on a Television Series