Charlie Cox Trivia | 30 facts about the actor

Charlie Cox is an English actor. He is best known for portraying Matt Murdock / Daredevil in several projects of the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise.

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1. His full name is Charlie Thomas Cox.
2. He was born on 15th of December 1982.
3. He is an English actor.
4. He is best known for portraying Matt Murdock / Daredevil in several projects of the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise, including lead roles in the television series Daredevil (2015–2018) and The Defenders (2017).
5. Cox portrayed Jonathan Hellyer Jones in the 2014 film The Theory of Everything and Owen Sleater in the second and third seasons of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire (2011–2012).
6. More recently, he starred in the RTÉ drama series Kin (2021) and the Netflix spy miniseries Treason (2022).
7. His breakout role was as Tristan Thorn in the 2007 fantasy film Stardust, one of a series of roles he had in predominately British productions during the first decade of his career.
8. He made his West End debut the following year in a revival of the Harold Pinter plays The Lover and The Collection.
9. Following his successes on-screen in the 2010s, he acted in a 2019 stage production of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, first in the West End and then on Broadway.
10. He studied at Sherborne school in Dorset
11. He has traveled to Australia, parts of the USA, Europe and Hong Kong
12. Trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
13. He has English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry, and is descended from many prominent figures, including Royal Navy captain Frederick Lewis Maitland, Colonial Governor of New York, Andrew Elliot, and several Baronets and Earls.
14. The first non-American actor to play Matt Murdock/Daredevil.
15. After Rex Smith and Ben Affleck, he is the third actor to play the role of the Marvel Comics’ hero Matt Murdock/Daredevil.
16. He didn’t know that his character in Daredevil (2015) was blind until the day before the audition.
17. He hadn’t read any Daredevil comics before receiving the part of Matt Murdock/Daredevil in Daredevil (2015), but has since become a big fan of the character and comics in general.
18. He expressed hope that Daredevil would appear in The First Avenger: The War of the Heroes (2016). To his disappointment, this didn’t come to pass.
19. Ultimately, he would appear as Murdock, however, in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).
20. One of his favorite Pixar films is Toy Story (1995).
21. He married one of Daredevil ‘s producers in 2018.
22. Together they have two children. The first child was born in October 2016, and the second child was born in March 2020.
23. He became a big Comic book fan after being cast as Matt Murdock/Daredevil.
24. Gained thirty pounds of muscle for his role in Daredevil (2015-2018).
25. Has been best friends with Andrew Garfield, Eddie Redmayne, Jamie Dornan, Robert Pattinson, Tom Sturridge since he started his career.
26. Charlie Thomas Cox was born in London, England, to Patricia C. A. (Harley) and Andrew Frederick Seaforth Cox, a publisher.
27. He has English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry, and descends from several prominent forebears (Baronets of Agnew and Carnegie, an Earl of Findlater, and a Colonial Governor of New York, Andrew Elliot).
28. Charlie Cox was educated and received his training in drama at Sherborne School in Dorset where he appeared in Dealer’s Choice / Patrick Marber (Mugsy) The Writing Game (Leo) Code Crackers / Andy Wilkinson (Weasel) Confusions / Alan Aykbourne (Martin & Arthur) Henry V (Nym & John Bates).
29. He received the Gerald Pitman Award for Acting from Sherborne School. He also appeared in Judge John Deed (2001) as the Young Vicar.
30. He starred in Things to Do Before You’re 30 (2005) (formerly You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me).