Charlie Cox

Charles Thomas Cox is an English actor born on December 15, 1982. He is best known for starring as Matt Murdock, also known as Daredevil, across several Marvel Cinematic Universe productions beginning in 2015, including the television series Daredevil and Daredevil: Born Again. Beyond his Marvel work, he has taken on major roles in prominent television series such as Boardwalk Empire, Kin, and Treason, as well as key film roles in Stardust and The Theory of Everything.

Born in London and raised in East Sussex, Cox is the youngest of five children born to his mother and his publisher father. He was raised Catholic and attended private boarding schools in East Sussex and Dorset. Although he did not consider acting as a profession until his final years of school, he decided to pursue the craft after graduating in 2001, moving to London and enrolling at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2002.

Cox earned his first professional screen credit at eighteen in the 2003 film Dot the i, followed by his casting as Lorenzo in the 2004 film The Merchant of Venice, which prompted him to leave drama school early. His career breakthrough occurred in 2007 when he played Tristan Thorn in the fantasy movie Stardust. The following year, he made his West End debut performing in a stage revival of Harold Pinter's plays The Lover and The Collection.

Throughout the late 2000s and early 2010s, Cox appeared in various television programs and films, including Downton Abbey and Glorious 39. He gained wider screen acclaim when he joined the cast of HBO's Boardwalk Empire as Irish enforcer Owen Sleater, earning a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the ensemble. In 2014, he played Jonathan Hellyer Jones in the Oscar-nominated biographical drama The Theory of Everything.

In 2014, Cox was cast in the title role of Marvel's Daredevil series, which aired on Netflix from 2015 to 2018. His portrayal received widespread acclaim and honored him with a Helen Keller Achievement Award from the American Foundation for the Blind. During breaks from the series, he appeared off-Broadway in Incognito and co-starred in the 2018 film King of Thieves. Following the end of Daredevil, he starred in Harold Pinter's Betrayal in the West End and on Broadway in 2019.

In recent years, Cox starred in the Irish crime drama Kin from 2021 to 2023 and the Netflix spy miniseries Treason in 2022. He reprised his role as Daredevil in Marvel Studios projects such as Spider-Man: No Way Home, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and Echo, before leading the revival series Daredevil: Born Again, where he also serves as an executive producer. Additionally, he voiced the character Gustave in the video game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, receiving a nomination for Best Performance at The Game Awards 2025.

In his personal life, Cox married television producer Samantha Thomas in September 2018, and the couple has a daughter and a son. The family resides in Connecticut, and Cox became a naturalized United States citizen in January 2025, holding dual UK and US citizenship.