Charlie Thomas Cox is an English actor best known for his starring role as Tristan Thorne
in Stardust and for his supporting role in the second and third seasons of HBO's Boardwalk
Empire. Cox will play the title role of Marvel's upcoming Daredevil TV series.
Early life 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. "Trisha"
and Andrew Frederick Seaforth Cox, who is a publisher. His paternal ancestors include
Sir Andrew Agnew, 7th Baronet, Royal Navy captain Frederick Lewis Maitland, James Ogilvy,
4th Earl of Findlater, Sir David Carnegie, 4th Baronet, and a Colonial Governor of New
York, Andrew Elliot. He was brought up as a Roman Catholic.
Cox 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 Thorne 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 the same year played the Duke of Crowborough in the pilot 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 an Irish immigrant with ties to the IRA. His character
became a regular for the series' third season, which began broadcast in September 2012.
On May 28th, 2014, it was announced that Cox will portray Matt Murdock/Daredevil in Marvel's
upcoming Daredevil TV series. Filmography
Film Television
Stage References
External links Charlie Cox at the Internet Movie Database
Charlie Cox Interview