Bud, Not Buddy has 78,894 ratings and 4,210 reviews. It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on th...
Norman Bates Played by Freddie Highmore. A smart, quietly funny, handsome and sometimes shy seventeen-year-old boy with an intensely close bond to his mother. Norman is resistant to starting over in a new town, but begins to change his mind as he spread his wings a little. Freddie Highmore.
Freddie Highmore. Freddie Highmore is an English actor who portrays Norman Bates in Bates Motel. Biography. Early Life. Highmore was born on February 14, 1992 into a show business family. His mother, Sue Latimer, is a talent agent whose clients include actors Daniel Radcliffe and Imelda Staunton, and his father, Edward Highmore, is an actor.