| “ | The day that the rain smelled like ice cream, my bunny went to heaven in front of my eyes. The day that the copper pipes in the old building smelled like burnt food, my brother went to heaven in front of my eyes. I couldn't save them. It's sad. Neither one had the chance to become an adult. They should have become adults. They should have had children of their own and loved those children and I want to make that possible for other people. And I want to make a lot of money so that I can have a television. | „ |
| ~ Dr. Shaun Murphy in Burnt Food. |
Dr. Shaun Murphy, MD is the titular main protagonist of ABC's medical drama, The Good Doctor. He is a 31-year-old surgeon who has high-functioning autism.
He is played by English actor Freddie Highmore, who also played Charlie Bucket in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (2005), Arthur in the Arthur and the Invisibles trilogy, Norman Bates in Bates Motel, and Jared Grace and Simon Grace in The Spiderwick Chronicles. In the Japanese dub, he is voiced by Nobuhiko Okamoto, who is best known for voicing Katsuki Bakugo in My Hero Academia.
Biography[]
Shaun Murphy was born on July 20, 1992 in Casper, Wyoming, United States. He had trouble socializing and understanding how school worked which outraged his father and his mother didn’t know how to help either. The only family member who supported him was his brother Steven until he died in an accident. Ever since he studied medicine manages to get his High School Diploma and go to med school. Murphy was diagnosed with autism and savant syndrome, a condition where someone with mental disabilities demonstrate certain abilities in a subject that is above human average.
Trivia[]
- Shaun is widely regarded as one of the most popular characters with autism.
- Shaun is one of the very few doctor characters to use an otoscope, along with Dr. Julius Hibbert, Doc McStuffins, Gregory House, and Daffy Duck from Space Jam.
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