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Meet the Cast

VIDEO

• FULL EPISODE | 42:38

  

  What's Wrong with Norman?

  Airdate: 04/01/2013

• FULL EPISODE | 42:33

  

  Nice Town You Picked, Norma...

  Airdate: 03/25/2013

• FULL EPISODE | 48:05

  

  First You Dream, Then You Die

  Airdate: 03/18/2013

• BONUS | 2:41

  

  Inside the Episode: What's Wrong with Norman?

• BONUS | 2:38

  

  Inside the Episode: Nice Town You Picked, Norma...

• BONUS | 3:18

  

  Inside the Episode: First You Dream, Then You Die

• BONUS | 2:48

  

  This Season on Bates Motel

• TRAILER | 1:00

  

  You're New

• TRAILER | 3:32

  

  Behind the Scenes

• CLIP | 2:59

  

  Directing Bates Motel

• CLIP | 2:58

  

  Designing Bates Motel

• CLIP | 3:07

  

  The Writers' Room

Freddie Highmore as Norman Bates

Character Bio - Norman Bates

A smart, quietly funny, handsome and sometimes shy seventeen-year-old boy with an intensely close bond to his mother. Norman is resistant to starting over in a new town, but begins to change his mind as he spread his wings a little.

Actor Bio - Freddie Highmore

Whilst still 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 winner of the Film Critics’ award for the world’s Best Young Actor two years running.

Having shot Two Brothers directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, Women Talking Dirty with Helena Bonham Carter and Five Children and It with Ken Branagh, Freddie came to prominence as Peter in the Oscar nominated Finding Neverland. His co-star Kate Winslet described him 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.

After appearing alongside Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott’s A Good Year, Freddie went on to play the title role in Luc Besson’s Arthur and the Invisibles trilogy where he became fluent in French.

In America Freddie played the lead role in the Oscar-nominated August Rush and starred opposite himself as twins in The Spiderwick Chronicles.

Whilst continuing with his education, Freddie 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.

Freddie was reunited with Helena Bonham Carter again shooting Toast and most recently returned to New York to team with Emma Roberts in The Art of Getting By.

Achieving straight A’s in every one of his academic exams, Freddie studies Arabic & Spanish at Cambridge University being made a senior scholar and receiving a first in both his first and second years.

Taking on the iconic role from Hitchcock’s Psycho, Freddie is currently playing Norman Bates in “Bates Motel” for A&E Universal.