Martin Freeman
Martin John Christopher Freeman is an English actor. His most notable roles are that of Tim Canterbury in the mockumentary series The Office and Dr. John Watson in the British crime drama series Sherlock. He also played Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit film trilogy and Lester Nygaard in the first season of the dark comedy-crime drama series Fargo. Freeman has won an Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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Martin John Christopher Freeman is an English actor. His most notable roles are that of Tim Canterbury in the mockumentary series The Office and Dr. John Watson in the British crime drama series Sherlock. He also played Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit film trilogy and Lester Nygaard in the first season of the dark comedy-crime drama series Fargo. Freeman has won an Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award. He has also appeared in films such as the romantic comedy Love Actually, the horror comedy Shaun of the Dead, the sci-fi comedy The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the action comedy Hot Fuzz, the semi-improvised comedy Nativity! and The World’s End. Freeman is featured in the video for Faith No More’s cover of \”I Started a Joke\”. He was born on 8 September 1971 in Aldershot, Hampshire, the youngest of five children.
His parents, Philomena and naval officer Geoffrey Freeman, separated when he was a child. His father died of a heart attack when Freeman was 10 years old. Freeman’s paternal grandfather, Leonard W. Freeman, was a medic in the. British Expeditionary Force during World War II and was killed in action at Dunkirk just a few days before the Dunkirk evacuation. He was presented with a fellowship bearing his name by the members of University College Dublin’s Literary & Historical Society in October 2013. In July 2014, he opened in the title role in Shakespeare’s play Richard III in the Trafalgar Studios. For his performance in this series, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award,. The Eichmann Show, based on the 1961 trial of Nazi criminal Adolf Hitler.
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