Freddie's career began at age six when he played Helena Bonham Carter's Scottish son in Women Talking Dirty. He then traveled to the jungles of Cambodia to play a French boy who adopts a young tiger cub in Jean-Jacques Annaud's Two Brothers, in which he starred along side Guy Pearce. Most recently he starred opposite Kenneth Branagh in Five Children & It. He also filmed Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Pinewood Studios, England, in which he plays the title role of Charlie. The film once again teams him with Johnny Depp.