Martin Freeman
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Martin John C. Freeman (born 8 September 1971) is an English
actor. He is known for his roles as John in Love Actually
, Tim Canterbury
in the BBC
's Golden Globe-winning comedy The Office
, Arthur Dent
in the film adaptation
of Douglas Adams
' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
, Dr. John Watson
in Sherlock and Mr. Madden in Nativity!. He has been cast in the lead role of Bilbo Baggins
in Peter Jackson
's two-part adaptation of The Hobbit.
. He also attended Salesian School, a Voluntary Aided
Roman Catholic comprehensive school in the town of Chertsey
in Surrey, followed by the Central School of Speech and Drama
in London.
. Additionally Freeman has appeared in several films, including Sacha Baron Cohen
's Ali G Indahouse
(2002) and Richard Curtis
' Love Actually
(2003). As well as his various comic roles, Freeman has also appeared in serious dramatic parts. He began to move into more serious dramatic roles on television with his appearance as Lord Shaftesbury in the 2003 BBC historical drama Charles II: The Power and The Passion
. He can also be seen making a brief appearance in the first episode of the second series of This Life
. Freeman also starred in the BBC's television series The Robinsons
and had a cameo performance in episode 1 of Black Books
.
He had a cameo in Hot Fuzz
(2007), a film written by Shaun of the Dead
writers Simon Pegg
and Edgar Wright
, and had a brief non-speaking role in Shaun of the Dead as Yvonne's boyfriend, Declan. He is in the 2007 film The All Together
written & directed by Gavin Claxton
. He also appeared alongside Roger Lloyd Pack, Jamie Hogarth and Christopher Mellows in the 2007 Bill Kenwright theatre production of The Last Laugh.
He also features in the video for Faith No More
's cover of "I Started a Joke
". He has recently covered a few shows on BBC 6 Music
.
In May 2009 he starred in a comedy, called Boy Meets Girl
– a four part drama that charts the progress of characters Veronica and Danny after an accident which causes them to swap bodies.
He has starred in a 48 hour film project
entitled 'The Girl Is Mime'.
Freeman plays Dr. John Watson
in Sherlock, the BBC contemporary adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes
detective stories. The first episode, "A Study in Pink
", was broadcast on 25 July 2010 to critical acclaim. For his performance in the role he won the BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actor, 2011
.
Following some uncertainty regarding scheduling conflicts, he has been cast in the role of Bilbo Baggins
in the upcoming two-part Peter Jackson prequel to The Lord of the Rings film trilogy
, titled The Hobbit.
with his wife, actress Amanda Abbington
, who has appeared alongside Freeman in several productions, such as Men Only, Picking Up The Pieces
, The Debt, The Robinsons
and the feature film comedy The All Together. He has two children: a son Joe, born in 2005, and a daughter, Grace, born in 2009.
In an edition of Who Do You Think You Are? aired on 19 August 2009, he discovered that his grandfather, Leonard Freeman, was a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps
during World War II . Private L W Freeman, a Territorial Army volunteer in the 150(N) Field Ambulance Regiment, was killed in Northern France on 24 May 1940 in a Stuka dawn attack. His unit was evacuated from Dunkirk two days later.
Freeman is a lifelong fan of Motown music and interviewed Smokey Robinson
in an edition of The Culture Show
aired in October 2009.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
actor. He is known for his roles as John in Love Actually
Love Actually
Love Actually is a 2003 British romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis. The screenplay delves into different aspects of love as shown through ten separate stories involving a wide variety of individuals, many of whom are shown to be interlinked as their tales progress...
, Tim Canterbury
Tim Canterbury
Tim Canterbury is a main character in the BBC sitcom The Office, played by Martin Freeman. He is a 30-year-old sales representative for paper merchants Wernham Hogg and lives with his parents. He spent one year at a university before dropping out, and one day hopes to return to get a psychology...
in the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
's Golden Globe-winning comedy The Office
The Office (UK TV series)
The Office is a British sitcom television series that was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written, and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the programme is about the day-to-day lives of office employees in the Slough branch of the fictitious...
, Arthur Dent
Arthur Dent
Arthur Philip Dent is a fictional character, the hapless protagonist and anti-hero in the comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams....
in the film adaptation
Film adaptation
Film adaptation is the transfer of a written work to a feature film. It is a type of derivative work.A common form of film adaptation is the use of a novel as the basis of a feature film, but film adaptation includes the use of non-fiction , autobiography, comic book, scripture, plays, and even...
of Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adams was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television...
' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a 2005 comic science fiction film based on the book of the same name by Douglas Adams. Shooting was completed in August 2004 and the movie was released on April 28, 2005 in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and on the following day in Canada and the United...
, Dr. John Watson
John Watson (Sherlock Holmes)
John H. Watson, M.D. , known as Dr. Watson, is a character in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Watson is Sherlock Holmes's friend, assistant and sometime flatmate, and is the first person narrator of all but four stories in the Sherlock Holmes canon.-Name:Doctor Watson's first...
in Sherlock and Mr. Madden in Nativity!. He has been cast in the lead role of Bilbo Baggins
Bilbo Baggins
Bilbo Baggins is the protagonist and titular character of The Hobbit and a supporting character in The Lord of the Rings, two of the most well-known of J. R. R...
in Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson
Sir Peter Robert Jackson, KNZM is a New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter, known for his The Lord of the Rings film trilogy , adapted from the novel by J. R. R...
's two-part adaptation of The Hobbit.
Education
Freeman was raised Roman Catholic and was educated at Cardinal Newman school, a Roman Catholic primary school in HershamHersham
Hersham is a village in Surrey, within the M25 boundary. It is within easy reach of Heathrow and Gatwick airports. The main A3 London to Portsmouth road runs through its boundaries...
. He also attended Salesian School, a Voluntary Aided
Voluntary aided school
A voluntary aided school is a state-funded school in England and Wales in which a foundation or trust owns the school buildings, contributes to building costs and has a substantial influence in the running of the school...
Roman Catholic comprehensive school in the town of Chertsey
Chertsey
Chertsey is a town in Surrey, England, on the River Thames and its tributary rivers such as the River Bourne. It can be accessed by road from junction 11 of the M25 London orbital motorway. It shares borders with Staines, Laleham, Shepperton, Addlestone, Woking, Thorpe and Egham...
in Surrey, followed by the Central School of Speech and Drama
Central School of Speech and Drama
The Central School of Speech and Drama was founded in London in 1906 by Elsie Fogerty to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students...
in London.
Career
Freeman has appeared in at least 18 TV shows, 14 theatre productions, and several radio productions. His most famous role remains that of Tim Canterbury in The Office. He also appeared in the sitcom HardwareHardware (TV series)
Hardware is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 2003 to 2004. Starring Martin Freeman, it was written and created by Simon Nye, the creator of Men Behaving Badly.The show's opening theme was A Taste of Honey by Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass....
. Additionally Freeman has appeared in several films, including Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Noam Baron Cohen is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and voice artist. He is most widely known for his portrayal of three unorthodox fictional characters: Ali G, Borat, and Brüno...
's Ali G Indahouse
Ali G Indahouse
Ali G Indahouse is a British comedy film directed by Mark Mylod and starring the fictional character Ali G, who is performed by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen...
(2002) and Richard Curtis
Richard Curtis
Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, CBE is a New Zealand-born British screenwriter, music producer, actor and film director, known primarily for romantic comedy films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones's Diary, Notting Hill, Love Actually and The Girl in the Café, as well as the hit...
' Love Actually
Love Actually
Love Actually is a 2003 British romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis. The screenplay delves into different aspects of love as shown through ten separate stories involving a wide variety of individuals, many of whom are shown to be interlinked as their tales progress...
(2003). As well as his various comic roles, Freeman has also appeared in serious dramatic parts. He began to move into more serious dramatic roles on television with his appearance as Lord Shaftesbury in the 2003 BBC historical drama Charles II: The Power and The Passion
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
Charles II: The Power and the Passion is an award-winning British television mini-series, broadcast on BBC One in 2003, and produced by the BBC in association with the A&E Network in the United States...
. He can also be seen making a brief appearance in the first episode of the second series of This Life
This Life
This Life is a BBC television drama that was produced by World Productions and screened on BBC Two. Two series were broadcast in 1996 and 1997 and a reunion special in 2007....
. Freeman also starred in the BBC's television series The Robinsons
The Robinsons
The Robinsons is a British comedy television series that debuted on BBC Two on May 5, 2005. The show's central character is a divorced reinsurance actuary, Ed Robinson , who realises that reinsurance is not his passion and decides to rethink his life. The series is written and directed by Mark...
and had a cameo performance in episode 1 of Black Books
Black Books
Black Books is a British sitcom television series created by Dylan Moran and Graham Linehan and produced by Nira Park, first broadcast on Channel 4 from 2000 to 2004...
.
He had a cameo in Hot Fuzz
Hot Fuzz
Hot Fuzz is a 2007 British action dark comedy film written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. The three had previously worked together on the 2004 film Shaun of the Dead as well as the television series Spaced...
(2007), a film written by Shaun of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead is a 2004 British zombie comedy directed by Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and written by Pegg and Wright. Pegg plays Shaun, a man attempting to get some kind of focus in his life as he deals with his girlfriend, his mother and stepfather...
writers Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg is an English actor, comedian, writer, film producer, and director. He is best known for having co-written and stared in various Edgar Wright features, mainly Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and the comedy series Spaced.He also portrayed Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the 2009 Star Trek film...
and Edgar Wright
Edgar Wright
Edgar Howard Wright is an English film and television director and writer. He is most famous for his work with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost on the films Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, the TV series Spaced, and for directing the film Scott Pilgrim vs...
, and had a brief non-speaking role in Shaun of the Dead as Yvonne's boyfriend, Declan. He is in the 2007 film The All Together
The All Together
The All Together is a 2007 comedy feature film starring Martin Freeman, Corey Johnson, Velibor Topic and Danny Dyer. It is written and directed by Gavin Claxton.-Plot:...
written & directed by Gavin Claxton
Gavin Claxton
Gavin Claxton British producer, screenwriter and director of the feature film comedy The All Together starring Martin Freeman and Danny Dyer...
. He also appeared alongside Roger Lloyd Pack, Jamie Hogarth and Christopher Mellows in the 2007 Bill Kenwright theatre production of The Last Laugh.
He also features in the video for Faith No More
Faith No More
Faith No More is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed originally as Faith No Man in 1981 by bassist Billy Gould, keyboardist Wade Worthington, vocalist Michael Morris and drummer Mike Bordin. A year later when Worthington was replaced by keyboardist Roddy Bottum, and Mike...
's cover of "I Started a Joke
I Started a Joke
"I Started a Joke" is a 1968 song by the Bee Gees from their album Idea, which was released in September of that year.Curiously, it was not released as a single in the UK, where buyers who could not afford the album had to content themselves with a Polydor version by Heath...
". He has recently covered a few shows on BBC 6 Music
BBC 6 Music
BBC 6 Music is one of the BBC's digital radio stations, was launched on 11 March 2002 and originally codenamed Network Y. It was the first national music radio station to be launched by the BBC in 32 years....
.
In May 2009 he starred in a comedy, called Boy Meets Girl
Boy Meets Girl (TV series)
Boy Meets Girl is an ITV comedy-drama television mini-series starring Rachael Stirling and Martin Freeman. In the show, Danny Reed is struck by lightning. When he wakes up from the attack, he is inside the body of a woman, fashion journalist Veronica Burton...
– a four part drama that charts the progress of characters Veronica and Danny after an accident which causes them to swap bodies.
He has starred in a 48 hour film project
48 Hour Film Project
The 48 Hour Film Project is a contest in which teams of filmmakers are assigned a genre, a character, a prop, and a line of dialogue, and have 48 hours to create a short film containing those elements. Shortly after the 48 hours of filmmaking, the films from each city are then screened at a theater...
entitled 'The Girl Is Mime'.
Freeman plays Dr. John Watson
John Watson (Sherlock Holmes)
John H. Watson, M.D. , known as Dr. Watson, is a character in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Watson is Sherlock Holmes's friend, assistant and sometime flatmate, and is the first person narrator of all but four stories in the Sherlock Holmes canon.-Name:Doctor Watson's first...
in Sherlock, the BBC contemporary adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...
detective stories. The first episode, "A Study in Pink
A Study in Pink
"A Study in Pink" is the first episode of the television series Sherlock and first broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD on 25 July 2010. It introduces the main characters and resolves a murder mystery. It is loosely based upon the first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet.The episode was written...
", was broadcast on 25 July 2010 to critical acclaim. For his performance in the role he won the BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actor, 2011
British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor
- 2010s :*2010 Matthew Macfadyen in Criminal Justice**Gary Lewis in Mo**Tom Hollander in Gracie!**Benedict Cumberbatch in Small Island*2011 Martin Freeman in Sherlock**Robert Sheehan in Misfits**Johnny Harris in This Is England '86...
.
Following some uncertainty regarding scheduling conflicts, he has been cast in the role of Bilbo Baggins
Bilbo Baggins
Bilbo Baggins is the protagonist and titular character of The Hobbit and a supporting character in The Lord of the Rings, two of the most well-known of J. R. R...
in the upcoming two-part Peter Jackson prequel to The Lord of the Rings film trilogy
The Lord of the Rings film trilogy
The Lord of the Rings is an epic film trilogy consisting of three fantasy adventure films based on the three-volume book of the same name by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The films are The Fellowship of the Ring , The Two Towers and The Return of the King .The films were directed by Peter...
, titled The Hobbit.
Personal life
Born to Geoff and Philomena R. Norris in Aldershot, Hampshire, Freeman is the youngest of five children. He currently resides in HertfordshireHertfordshire
Hertfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England. The county town is Hertford.The county is one of the Home Counties and lies inland, bordered by Greater London , Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and...
with his wife, actress Amanda Abbington
Amanda Abbington
Amanda Abbington is an English actress and comedienne who has appeared on both television and stage. She is best known for her roles in the 2005 comedy sketch show Man Stroke Woman and the 2007–2008 comedy After You've Gone with Nicholas Lyndhurst...
, who has appeared alongside Freeman in several productions, such as Men Only, Picking Up The Pieces
Picking Up The Pieces
"Picking Up the Pieces" was a single released from Difford & Tilbrook's self-titled debut album in the United States.-Track listing:# "Picking Up the Pieces" # "Within These Walls"...
, The Debt, The Robinsons
The Robinsons
The Robinsons is a British comedy television series that debuted on BBC Two on May 5, 2005. The show's central character is a divorced reinsurance actuary, Ed Robinson , who realises that reinsurance is not his passion and decides to rethink his life. The series is written and directed by Mark...
and the feature film comedy The All Together. He has two children: a son Joe, born in 2005, and a daughter, Grace, born in 2009.
In an edition of Who Do You Think You Are? aired on 19 August 2009, he discovered that his grandfather, Leonard Freeman, was a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps
Royal Army Medical Corps
The Royal Army Medical Corps is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace...
during World War II . Private L W Freeman, a Territorial Army volunteer in the 150(N) Field Ambulance Regiment, was killed in Northern France on 24 May 1940 in a Stuka dawn attack. His unit was evacuated from Dunkirk two days later.
Freeman is a lifelong fan of Motown music and interviewed Smokey Robinson
Smokey Robinson
William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy...
in an edition of The Culture Show
The Culture Show
The Culture Show is a weekly BBC Two Arts magazine programme. It is broadcast in the UK on Thursday nights at 7pm, focusing on the best of the week's arts and culture news, covering books, art, film, architecture, music, visual fashion and the performing arts...
aired in October 2009.
Films
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | I Just Want to Kiss You | Frank | Short film |
| 2000 | The Low Down | Solomon | |
| 2001 | Round About Five | The Man | |
| Fancy Dress | Pirate | ||
| 2002 | Ali G Indahouse Ali G Indahouse Ali G Indahouse is a British comedy film directed by Mark Mylod and starring the fictional character Ali G, who is performed by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen... |
Ricky C | |
| 2003 | Love Actually Love Actually Love Actually is a 2003 British romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis. The screenplay delves into different aspects of love as shown through ten separate stories involving a wide variety of individuals, many of whom are shown to be interlinked as their tales progress... |
John | Nominated – Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble Acting |
| 2004 | Blake's Junction 7 | Vila | Short film |
| Call Register | Kevin | ||
| Shaun of the Dead Shaun of the Dead Shaun of the Dead is a 2004 British zombie comedy directed by Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and written by Pegg and Wright. Pegg plays Shaun, a man attempting to get some kind of focus in his life as he deals with his girlfriend, his mother and stepfather... |
Declan | Cameo | |
| 2005 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a 2005 comic science fiction film based on the book of the same name by Douglas Adams. Shooting was completed in August 2004 and the movie was released on April 28, 2005 in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and on the following day in Canada and the United... |
Arthur Dent Arthur Dent Arthur Philip Dent is a fictional character, the hapless protagonist and anti-hero in the comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.... |
|
| 2006 | Confetti | Matt | |
| Breaking and Entering Breaking and Entering (film) Gabriel Yared and Underworld collaborated on the film's original music score.-External links:* at TIFF, by Andrea Miller /CANOE Live... |
Sandy | ||
| 2007 | Dedication Dedication (film) Dedication is a 2007 American romantic comedy film starring Billy Crudup and Mandy Moore. Written by David Bromberg, this film is actor Justin Theroux's directorial debut. The film premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. It was produced by Plum Pictures.-Plot:Henry Roth is an... |
Jeremy | |
| The Good Night The Good Night The Good Night is a 2007 romantic comedy film written and directed by Jake Paltrow. The film stars his sister Gwyneth Paltrow, Penélope Cruz, Martin Freeman, Danny DeVito, Simon Pegg and others... |
Gary Shaller | ||
| Hot Fuzz Hot Fuzz Hot Fuzz is a 2007 British action dark comedy film written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. The three had previously worked together on the 2004 film Shaun of the Dead as well as the television series Spaced... |
Met. Sergeant | ||
| Lonely Hearts | The pig | Short film | |
| The All Together The All Together The All Together is a 2007 comedy feature film starring Martin Freeman, Corey Johnson, Velibor Topic and Danny Dyer. It is written and directed by Gavin Claxton.-Plot:... |
Chris Ashworth | ||
| Rubbish | Kevin | Short film | |
| Nightwatching Nightwatching Nightwatching is a 2007 film about the artist Rembrandt and the creation of his painting The Night Watch. The film is directed by Peter Greenaway and stars Martin Freeman as Rembrandt, with Eva Birthistle as his wife Saskia van Uylenburg, Jodhi May as his lover Geertje Dircx, and Emily Holmes as... |
Rembrandt | ||
| 2008 | Rembrandt's J'Accuse Rembrandt's J'Accuse Rembrandt's J'Accuse is a 2008 Dutch, German, Finnish documentary directed by Peter Greenaway about criticism of today's visual illiteracy argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt's Night Watch painting. Greenaway explains the conspiracy about a murder and the motives of all its characters... |
Rembrandt | Documentary (related to the previous year's Nightwatching Nightwatching Nightwatching is a 2007 film about the artist Rembrandt and the creation of his painting The Night Watch. The film is directed by Peter Greenaway and stars Martin Freeman as Rembrandt, with Eva Birthistle as his wife Saskia van Uylenburg, Jodhi May as his lover Geertje Dircx, and Emily Holmes as... ) |
| 2009 | Nativity! | Mr Maddens | |
| HIV: The Musical | James McKenzie | Awaiting release | |
| Swinging with the Finkels Swinging with the Finkels Swinging with the Finkels is a 2011 British comedy film directed by Jonathan Newman, starring Mandy Moore, Martin Freeman and Melissa George. A wealthy London couple decide to take up swinging in an attempt to save their struggling marriage... |
Alvin Finkel | ||
| 2010 | Wild Target Wild Target Wild Target is a 2010 comedy film, directed by Jonathan Lynn. It is based on the 1993 French film Cible Emouvante. Lucinda Coxon wrote the screenplay, and it was produced by Martin Pope and Michael Rose.... |
Dixon | |
| 2011 | What's Your Number? What's Your Number? What's Your Number? is a 2011 romantic comedy film starring Anna Faris and Chris Evans. It is based on Karyn Bosnak's book 20 Times a Lady. The film was released on , 2011.-Cast:* Anna Faris as Ally Darling* Chris Evans as Colin Shea... |
Simon | |
| 2012 | The Pirates! Band of Misfits The Pirates! Band of Misfits The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, known internationally as The Pirates! Band of Misfits, is an upcoming 3-D stop-motion animated film produced by Aardman Animations and Sony Pictures Animation and set for release on March 28, 2012, in UK, and on March 30, 2012, in US. It is being... |
The Pirate with a Scarf | Voice |
| The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Bilbo Baggins Bilbo Baggins Bilbo Baggins is the protagonist and titular character of The Hobbit and a supporting character in The Lord of the Rings, two of the most well-known of J. R. R... |
Filming | |
| 2013 | The Hobbit: There and Back Again |
Television
| Year | Series | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | The Bill The Bill The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work... |
Craig Parnell | Episode 13.3: "Mantrap" |
| This Life This Life This Life is a BBC television drama that was produced by World Productions and screened on BBC Two. Two series were broadcast in 1996 and 1997 and a reunion special in 2007.... |
Stuart | Episode 2.1: "Last Tango in Southwark" | |
| 1998 | Casualty Casualty (TV series) Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The... |
Ricky Beck | Episode 13.8: "She Loved the Rain" |
| Picking up the Pieces | Brendan | Episode 1.7 | |
| 2000 | Bruiser Bruiser (TV series) Bruiser was a TV comedy sketch show produced for BBC Choice. It premiered on 28 February 2000 and ran for six episodes ending on 15 March 2000. The main writers were David Mitchell and Robert Webb... |
Various characters | Appeared in all six episodes |
| Lock, Stock... Lock, Stock... Lock, Stock... was a 2000 television series off-shoot from the 1998 film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The series was shown on Channel 4 and starred Ralph Brown, Daniel Caltagirone, Del Synnott, Scott Maslen and Shaun Parkes. Lock, Stock... was Ginger Productions' first commission... |
Jaap | Appeared in two episodes | |
| Black Books Black Books Black Books is a British sitcom television series created by Dylan Moran and Graham Linehan and produced by Nira Park, first broadcast on Channel 4 from 2000 to 2004... |
Doctor | Episode 1.1: "Cooking the Books" | |
| 2001 | Men Only | Jamie | TV film |
| World of Pub World of Pub World of Pub is a radio and television sitcom, set in a pub in the East End of London, written by Tony Roche and produced by Jane Berthoud.... |
Various characters | Appeared in five episodes | |
| 2001–2003 | The Office The Office (UK TV series) The Office is a British sitcom television series that was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written, and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the programme is about the day-to-day lives of office employees in the Slough branch of the fictitious... |
Tim Canterbury Tim Canterbury Tim Canterbury is a main character in the BBC sitcom The Office, played by Martin Freeman. He is a 30-year-old sales representative for paper merchants Wernham Hogg and lives with his parents. He spent one year at a university before dropping out, and one day hopes to return to get a psychology... |
Appeared in all 14 episodes Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Comedy Performance British Academy Television Awards 2004 The 2004 British Academy Television Awards were held on Sunday 18 April at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London. The ceremony was broadcast on the ITV Network, and hosted by television presenter Davina McCall.-Winners:*Best Actor... , 2004 for "The Office Christmas Special" |
| 2002 | Helen West | Unknown | Episode 1.2: "Shadow Play" |
| Linda Green Linda Green Linda Green is a British television comedy-drama series that lasted for two series, screened in 2001 and 2002. The twenty half-hour episodes were broadcast on BBC One and produced for the BBC by the independent Red Production Company.... |
Matt | Episode 2.8: "Easy Come, Easy Go" | |
| 2003 | The Debt | Terry Ross | TV film |
| Margery and Gladys Margery and Gladys Margery and Gladys is a made-for-TV film released in 2003. It was directed by Geoffrey Sax.-Plot:Recently-widowed Margery Heywood and her cleaning woman Gladys Gladwell disturb a would-be burglar breaking into Margery's house in Kent. Margery attacks the burglar with a heavy glass vase, and... |
D.S. Stringer | TV film | |
| Charles II: The Power and The Passion Charles II: The Power and The Passion Charles II: The Power and the Passion is an award-winning British television mini-series, broadcast on BBC One in 2003, and produced by the BBC in association with the A&E Network in the United States... |
Lord Shaftesbury Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury PC , known as Anthony Ashley Cooper from 1621 to 1631, as Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 2nd Baronet from 1631 to 1661, and as The Lord Ashley from 1661 to 1672, was a prominent English politician during the Interregnum and during the reign of King Charles... |
TV mini-series | |
| 2003–2004 | Hardware Hardware (TV series) Hardware is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 2003 to 2004. Starring Martin Freeman, it was written and created by Simon Nye, the creator of Men Behaving Badly.The show's opening theme was A Taste of Honey by Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass.... |
Mike | |
| 2004 | Pride | Fleck | TV film |
| 2005 | The Robinsons The Robinsons The Robinsons is a British comedy television series that debuted on BBC Two on May 5, 2005. The show's central character is a divorced reinsurance actuary, Ed Robinson , who realises that reinsurance is not his passion and decides to rethink his life. The series is written and directed by Mark... |
Ed Robinson | Appeared in all six episodes |
| 2007 | Comedy Showcase Comedy Showcase Comedy Showcase is a series of one-off comedy specials featuring some of Britain's fledgling comedy talent. Its format is reminiscent of the much earlier Comedy Playhouse.... |
Greg Wilson | Special 1.1: Other People |
| The Old Curiosity Shop | Mr. Codlin | TV film | |
| 2008 | When Were We Funniest? When Were We Funniest? When Were We Funniest? is a G.O.L.D. documentary series broadcast in 2008.-Format:G.O.L.D. wanted to ask the public which decade of British television they thought was the funniest, the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s or 2000s. Before the public voted G.O.L.D... |
Himself | Appeared in four episodes |
| 2009 | Boy Meets Girl Boy Meets Girl (TV series) Boy Meets Girl is an ITV comedy-drama television mini-series starring Rachael Stirling and Martin Freeman. In the show, Danny Reed is struck by lightning. When he wakes up from the attack, he is inside the body of a woman, fashion journalist Veronica Burton... |
Danny Reed | TV mini-series |
| Micro Men Micro Men Micro Men is a one-off BBC drama television show set in the late 1970s and 1980s, about the rise of the British home computer market, particularly the rivalry between Sir Clive Sinclair who developed the ZX Spectrum, and Chris Curry - the man behind the BBC Micro; played by Alexander Armstrong and... |
Chris Curry Chris Curry Christopher Curry is the co-founder of Acorn Computers, with Hermann Hauser and Andy Hopper.-Early life:... |
TV film | |
| 2010–present | Sherlock | Dr. John Watson John Watson (Sherlock Holmes) John H. Watson, M.D. , known as Dr. Watson, is a character in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Watson is Sherlock Holmes's friend, assistant and sometime flatmate, and is the first person narrator of all but four stories in the Sherlock Holmes canon.-Name:Doctor Watson's first... |
3 episodes BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor 2011 British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor - 2010s :*2010 Matthew Macfadyen in Criminal Justice**Gary Lewis in Mo**Tom Hollander in Gracie!**Benedict Cumberbatch in Small Island*2011 Martin Freeman in Sherlock**Robert Sheehan in Misfits**Johnny Harris in This Is England '86... |
| 2010 | The Girl is Mime | Clive Buckle; lead actor | Short film, part of the 48 Hour Film Project 48 Hour Film Project The 48 Hour Film Project is a contest in which teams of filmmakers are assigned a genre, a character, a prop, and a line of dialogue, and have 48 hours to create a short film containing those elements. Shortly after the 48 hours of filmmaking, the films from each city are then screened at a theater... in London |
Awards and nominations
| Year | Nominated For | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
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| 2002 | The Office The Office (UK TV series) The Office is a British sitcom television series that was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written, and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the programme is about the day-to-day lives of office employees in the Slough branch of the fictitious... |
British Comedy Awards British Comedy Awards The British Comedy Awards is an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year.-History:... |
Best Comedy Actor | ||
| 2004 | The Office | BAFTAs | Best Comedy Performance | ||
| 2004 | Love Actually Love Actually Love Actually is a 2003 British romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis. The screenplay delves into different aspects of love as shown through ten separate stories involving a wide variety of individuals, many of whom are shown to be interlinked as their tales progress... |
Phoenix Film Critics Society Phoenix Film Critics Society The Phoenix Film Critics Society is an organization of film reviewers from Phoenix-based publications.In December of each year, the PFCS meets to vote on their Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards for films released in the same calendar year.Categories of awards include:* Best Actor The Phoenix... |
Best Ensemble Acting | ||
| 2011 | Sherlock | BAFTAs | Best Supporting Actor British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor - 2010s :*2010 Matthew Macfadyen in Criminal Justice**Gary Lewis in Mo**Tom Hollander in Gracie!**Benedict Cumberbatch in Small Island*2011 Martin Freeman in Sherlock**Robert Sheehan in Misfits**Johnny Harris in This Is England '86... |