FREDDIE HIGHMORE

AGE AND OCCUPATION: 13, actor. PROVENANCE: London. A ROARING START: W. C. Fields famously advised against working with animals or children, but two negatives turned out to be a positive when Highmore caught his big break as a boy who befriended a tiger in Jean-Jacques Annaud's Two Brothers (2004). I WANT CANDY: Highmore, who played opposite Johnny Depp in Finding Neverland, will next share the screen with Depp's creepified Willy Wonka in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which comes out next month. JOHNNY GETS HIGHMORE: Depp was so impressed with his co-star's effortless talent in Finding Neverland that he urged the producers to cast Highmore as Charlie. —KRISTA SMITH

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