In this conversation moderated by Caroline Frost, David and Freddie will discuss The Good Doctor, their careers to date and more in between. This promises not to be missed. 

David Shore

Originally from Canada, and a former lawyer, David Shore has been writing and producing television for more than 20 years. He currently serves as Executive Producer and Showrunner on the hit ABC drama The Good Doctor. Prior to that, he created the groundbreaking medical drama House which ran on Fox for eight seasons. David's work on House earned him several Emmy nominations for producing and he won the Emmy Award for “Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series,” as well as the Humanitas Prize and the Writers Guild of America Award. Shore’s additional producer credits include Sneaky Pete, Battle Creek, Hack, Family Law, Beggars and Choosers, Law & Order and Traders. He was nominated for two Emmy Awards as a producer on Law & Order and was part of the writing team for the Emmy Award-winning first season of The Practice. Most recently, Shore received a second Humanitas Prize for the pilot episode of The Good Doctor.

Freddie Highmore

Now recognised globally as Sony/ABC’s The Good Doctor, Freddie Highmore established himself as a talent in the film world as a young child. Previously Empire Award’s Most Promising Newcomer, Highmore is a double SAG nominee and was twice winner of the Film Critics’ award for the world’s Best Young Actor.  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 Freddie 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 played the title role in Luc Besson’s Arthur and the Invisibles trilogy, becoming fluent in French. In America, Freddie took the central character in the Oscar nominated August Rush with Robin Williams and then starred opposite himself playing twins in Paramount’s The Spiderwick Chronicles. Freddie reunited with Helena Bonham Carter as his mother for a third time filming Toast and teamed with Emma Roberts in Twentieth Century Fox’s The Art of Getting By. Continuing 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. Whilst studying Spanish & Arabic at the University of Cambridge, where he graduated with a double first, Freddie shot the first of five series of NBC/Universal’s Emmy nominated Bates Motel portraying Hitchcock’s iconic Norman Bates. He followed that with leads in Stephen Poliakoff’s Close to the Enemy and Nick Hamm’s The Journey for the BBC. Freddie produced and starred in The Vault shot in Madrid.  More recently, Freddie shot Leonardo in Rome for Sony Pictures which he also co-produced. Freddie is currently filming the fifth season of The Good Doctor, in which he plays the Golden Globe nominated lead, Dr Shaun Murphy. He also serves on the series as director, writer and producer.