The son of banker father and producer mother, Freddie attended a Catholic boys' school in London. Although he had taken weekly drama classes for several years with his older brother Jack and younger sister Millie, his only experience before auditioning for
The Mummy Returns (2001) had been lip syncing the John Travolta role in a class production of Grease.
Loves and is obsessed with The Mummy (1999). He knows every line and detail of the movie. When anyone on the set of The Mummy Returns (2001) needed to know something about the first movie, they asked him.
Has one older brother, Jack, and a little sister, Millie.