Age: 43
male
Charlie Thomas Cox (born 15 December 1982) is an English actor. He is known for portraying Matt Murdock / Daredevil in seven projects of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, leading the television series Daredevil (2015–2018) and Daredevil: Born Again (2025–present). Cox portrayed Owen Sleater in the second and third seasons of HBO's Boardwalk Empire (2011–2012) and Jonathan Hellyer Jones in the 2014 film The Theory of Everything. He starred in the RTÉ drama series Kin (2021–2023) and the Netflix spy miniseries Treason (2022). Cox's breakout role was as Tristan Thorn in the 2007 fantasy film Stardust, one of several roles he had in predominantly British productions during the first decade of his career. He made his West End debut the following year in a revival of the Harold Pinter plays The Lover and The Collection. Following his successes on-screen in the 2010s, he acted in a 2019 stage production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, first in the West End and then on Broadway. He would later make his video game debut in 2025 as Gustave in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charlie Cox, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
At the age of 10 Matthew Murdock was in an accident that left him without his sight. He spent most of his childhood training his other senses and his intellect to become a great lawyer. After his father was shot dead, Matt was raised in an orphanage and grew up extremely poor in the broken city of Hell’s Kitchen. This movie follows Matt as he and his partner Foggy Nelson defend a woman named Karen Page after she was framed for murder by an unknown crime boss. Throughout the movie Matt get all the charges dropped and takes her in as an employee while also trying to uncover the corruption in his city as the masked vigilante Daredevil. Meanwhile the unknown crime boss revealed to be Wilson Fisk of Fisk Industries hires a mercenary named Bullseye to kill the Daredevil who has been taking down his men. The movie climaxes as Matt follows a group of Fisk’s men to a dark warehouse after they kidnapped the governer’s son. Once Matt gets in the warehouse its revealed to be a trap and he has to face off against Bullseye who was there waiting for him. The two battle and eventually Bullseye gets Matt cornered and nearly kills him but we flashback to when Matt is a kid and we see a scene of Matt and his father Jack talking about Matt’s homework while Matt stitches up Jack’s cuts. Jack tells Matt that no matter what happens, no matter how hard it seems, you always get back up. We cut back to the present and we see Matt get back up and beat Bullseye and leave the building carrying the kid.
