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Martin John C. Freeman (born 8 September 1971) is an English actor. He is known for his roles as Tim Canterbury in the BBC's Golden Globe-winning comedy The Office, John in Love Actually, Arthur Dent in the film adaptation of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dr. Watson in Sherlock and Paul Maddens in Nativity!. He has been cast in the lead role of Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's two-part adaptation of The Hobbit.

This book is your ultimate resource for Martin Freeman. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about his Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Martin Freeman, Ali G Indahouse, Love Actually, Shaun of the Dead, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film), Confetti (2006 film), Breaking and Entering (film), Dedication (film), The Good Night, Hot Fuzz, The All Together, Nightwatching, Rembrandt's J'Accuse, Nativity! (film), Swinging with the Finkels, Wild Target, What's Your Number?, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (film), The Hobbit (2012 film), This Life, Bruiser (TV series), The Office (UK TV series), Linda Green, Charles II: The Power and The Passion, Hardware (TV series), Pride (2004 film), The Robinsons, When Were We Funniest?, Boy Meets Girl (TV series), Micro Men, Sherlock (TV series).

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Publié par	Emereo Publishing
Date de parution	24 octobre 2012
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EAN13	9781743388372
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	6 Mo

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Contents

Articles Martin Freeman Ali G Indahouse Love Actually Shaun of the Dead The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film) Confetti (2006 film) Breaking and Entering (film) Dedication (film) The Good Night Hot Fuzz The All Together Nightwatching Rembrandt's J'Accuse Nativity! (film)

Swinging with the Finkels Wild Target What's Your Number? The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (film) The Hobbit (2012 film) This Life Bruiser (TV series) The Office (UK TV series) Linda Green Charles II: The Power and The Passion Hardware (TV series) Pride (2004 film) The Robinsons When Were We Funniest? Boy Meets Girl (TV series) Micro Men Sherlock (TV series)

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Martin Freeman

Martin Freeman during filming ofSherlockin 2010

Born

Occupation

Years active

Martin John C. Freeman 8 September 1971 Aldershot, Hampshire, England

Actor

1997–present

[1] Martin John C. Freeman(born 8 September 1971 ) is an English actor. He is known for his roles as Tim Canterbury in the BBC's Golden Globe-winning comedyThe Office, John inLove Actually, Arthur Dent in the film adaptation of Douglas Adams'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dr. John Watson inSherlockand Paul Maddens inNativity!. He has been cast in the lead role of Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's two-part adaptation ofThe [2] Hobbit.

Early life Martin Freeman was born in Aldershot, Hampshire, the youngest of five children. His father, Geoffrey, a naval officer, and his mother, Philomena separated when Freeman was a child, and when Freeman was ten, Geoffrey died of a heart attack. Freeman was raised Roman Catholic. As a child, Freeman was asthmatic, and had to undergo a hip operation due to a "dodgy" leg. He was schooled at a Catholic comprehensive before attending London's Central [3] [4] School of Speech and Drama. In an edition ofWho Do You Think You Are?aired on 19 August 2009, he discovered that his grandfather, Leonard [5] 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.

Martin Freeman

Career Freeman joined a youth theatre group at 15, but it was not until he was 17 that his confidence in his acting had led to [3] the decision to pursue it as a career. Freeman has appeared in at least 18 TV shows, 14 theatre productions, and several radio productions. He is notable for his role as Tim Canterbury inThe Office. He also appeared in the sitcomHardware. Additionally Freeman has appeared in several films, including Sacha Baron Cohen'sAli 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 dramaCharles II: The Power and The Passion. He can also be seen making a brief appearance in the first episode of the second series ofThis Life. Freeman also starred in the BBC's television seriesThe Robinsonsand had a cameo performance in episode 1 ofBlack Books. He had a cameo inHot Fuzz(2007), a film written byShaun of the Deadwriters Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, and had a brief non-speaking role inShaun of the Deadas Yvonne's boyfriend, Declan. He is in the 2007 filmThe All Togetherwritten & directed by Gavin Claxton. He also appeared alongside Roger Lloyd Pack, Jamie Hogarth and Christopher Mellows in the 2007 Bill Kenwright theatre production ofThe 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, calledBoy Meets Girl–a four part drama that charts the [6] 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 inSherlock, 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 [7] [8] upcoming two-part Peter Jackson prequel toThe Lord of the Ringsfilm trilogy, titledThe Hobbit.

Personal life [9] Freeman resides in Hertfordshire with his partner, actress Amanda Abbington, whom he met on the set of Channel [3] [4] 4’sMen Onlyin 2000. The couple have a son and daughter, and have since appeared in other productions together, includingPicking Up The Pieces,The Debt,The Robinsonsand the feature film comedyThe All Together. Freeman is a lifelong fan of Motown music and interviewed Smokey Robinson in an edition ofThe Culture Show [10] aired in October 2009.

Filmography

Films

The pig

Short film

Notes

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Kevin

James McKenzie

Chris Ashworth

Awaiting release

Paul Maddens

Sandy

Arthur Dent

Matt

Rembrandt

Declan

Gary Shaller

Cameo

Kevin

Jeremy

Met. Sergeant

Rubbish

The All Together

HIV: The Musical

Nightwatching

2009

Nativity!

Rembrandt's J'Accuse

2008

Lonely Hearts

2000

The Low Down

Pirate

The Man

Vila

2004

Frank

Blake's Junction 7

Short film

Ricky C

John

Role

Solomon

Nominated–Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble Acting

Television

Short film

The Hobbit: There and Back Again

2013

Wild Target

2011

2010

2012

What's Your Number?

The Pirates! Band of Misfits

Documentary (related to the previous year'sNightwatching)

Short film

Alvin Finkel

[11] [12] Filming

Bilbo Baggins

Breaking and Entering

Swinging with the Finkels

The Pirate with a Scarf

Simon

Dixon

Dedication

Hot Fuzz

2007

The Good Night

Voice

Year

1998

Martin Freeman

Round About Five

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Shaun of the Dead

2001

2002

Fancy Dress

2003

Ali G Indahouse

Film

Love Actually

I Just Want to Kiss You

2005

Call Register

2006

Confetti

Margery and Gladys

Jaap

Various characters

Jamie

Doctor

Appeared in all 14 episodes Nominated–BAFTA Award for Best Comedy Performance, 2004 for "The Office Christmas Special"

Tim Canterbury

TV film

TV mini-series

Lord Shaftesbury

Mike

D.S. Stringer

Episode 1.1: "Cooking the Books"

Appeared in five episodes

Short film, part of the 48 Hour Film Project in London

TV mini-series

Mr. Codlin

Special 1.1:Other People

Unknown

Matt

Episode 2.8: "Easy Come, Easy Go"

Ed Robinson

TV film

Greg Wilson

Terry Ross

TV film

Brendan

Notes

Awards and nominations

2008

Picking up the Pieces

Appeared in four episodes

TV film

Himself

When Were We Funniest?

Comedy Showcase

Fleck

Appeared in all six episodes

TV film

Various characters

2001–2003

2002

Black Books

Helen West

Men Only

2001

World of Pub

Linda Green

Clive Buckle; lead actor

[13] The Girl is Mime

Chris Curry

Danny Reed

The Debt

2003

Lock, Stock...

Bruiser

2000

The Office

Stuart

Micro Men

2010

Ricky Beck

Craig Parnell

Role

2009

Boy Meets Girl

Sherlock

2010–present

The Old Curiosity Shop

Charles II: The Power and The Passion

4 episodes BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor 2011

Dr. John Watson

The Robinsons

2005

2007

2003–2004

Pride

2004

Hardware

Martin Freeman

1998

Episode 1.2: "Shadow Play"

Episode 13.8: "She Loved the Rain"

Episode 1.7

Appeared in all six episodes

Appeared in two episodes

Year

Series

This Life

The Bill

1997

Casualty

Episode 2.1: "Last Tango in Southwark"

Episode 13.3: "Mantrap"

Martin Freeman

Year Nominated For

2002

2004

2011

References

The Office

Love Actually

Sherlock

Award

British Comedy Awards

BAFTAs

Phoenix Film Critics Society

BAFTAs

Category

Best Comedy Actor

Best Comedy Performance

Best Ensemble Acting

Best Supporting Actor

Result

Nominated

Won

Ref.

[1] Larman, Alexander. "Freeman, Martin (1971-)" (http:/ /www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/541286/index.html). BFI Screenonline. Retrieved January 1, 2012. [2] Braun, J.W. (2010).The Lord of the Films. ECW Press. [3] Hardy, Rebecca (20 November 2009). "'People care more about X Factor than homelessness:' The Office star Martin Freeman on the things that tick him off" (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1228637/ People-care-X-Factor-homelessness-The-Office-star-Martin-Freeman-things-tick-off. html).Daily Mail(UK). . Retrieved 19 October 2010. [4] Paton, Maureen (17 July 2010). "In a taxi with...Martin Freeman" (http:/ /www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1294381/ In-taxi--Martin-Freeman.html).Daily Mail(London). . [5]Martin Freeman(http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/episode/martin-freeman). . [6] Boy Meets Girl Interview: Martin Freeman–Sky TV (http://tv.sky.com/boy-meets-girl-interview-martin-freeman). Tv.sky.com (30 April 2009). Retrieved on 27 August 2011. [7] "Martin Freeman to play Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit" (http:/ /www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11604193).BBC News. 22 October 2010. . Retrieved 24 October 2010. [8] Child, Ben (22 October 2010). "Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, a match made in Hobbit heaven" (http:/ /www.guardian.co.uk/culture/ 2010/oct/22/hobbit-martin-freeman-bilbo-baggins).Guardian(London). . Retrieved 24 October 2010. [9] Power, Vicki. "How Tim from The Office found real love: Amanda Abbington on life with Martin Freeman" (http:/ /www.dailymail.co.uk/ tvshowbiz/article-2004506/Amanda-Abbington-loving-life-Martin-Freeman.html).Daily Mail. 17 July 2011 [10] Two Programmes–/www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gp3j1).The Culture Show, 2008/2009, Martin Freeman Goes to Motown (http:/ BBC (6 January 2009). Retrieved on 27 August 2011. [11] Freeman to Star as Bilbo is "The Hobbit" (http:/ /bigpondnews.com/articles/World/2010/10/22/ Freeman_to_star_as_Bilbo_is_The_Hobbit_529426.html),Big Pond News, 22 October 2010 [12] Peter Jackson's Hobbit Diary Online | Movie News | Empire (http:/ /www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=30723). Empireonline.com. Retrieved on 27 August 2011. [13] "The 48 Hour Film Project: Behind the Scenes" (http:/ /www.pixiq.com/article/48-hour-film-project-behind-the-scenes). Pixiq. February 2011. . Retrieved 12 February 2011.

External links Martin Freeman (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm293509/) at the Internet Movie Database Martin Freeman (http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/541286) at the British Film Institute's Screenonline Martin Freeman Massive, online fan community (http://www.livejournal.com/community/martin_freeman/) Martin Freeman BBC Radio Gloucestershire interview (feb 2007) (http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/ content/articles/2007/02/07/martin_freeman_feature.shtml) Boy Meets Girl Interview (http://tv.sky.com/boy-meets-girl-interview-martin-freeman)

Ali G Indahouse

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Mark Mylod

Sacha Baron Cohen Dan Mazer Tim Bevan Eric Fellner

Sacha Baron Cohen Dan Mazer

Sacha Baron Cohen Michael Gambon Charles Dance Martin Freeman Tony Way Kellie Bright Rhona Mitra

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Ashley Rowe

Paul Knight

Working Title Films StudioCanal 2 WT Productions Talkback Productions

Universal Pictures

22 March 2002

87 minutes

France United Kingdom Germany United States

English

[1] $25,936,616

Ali G Indahouseis a 2002 British comedy film directed by Mark Mylod and starring the fictional character Ali G, who is performed by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. The character was developed for the Channel 4 TV seriesThe 11 O'Clock Show(1999) andDa Ali G Show(2000).

Ali G Indahousewas released on DVD in Region 2 in the United Kingdom on 11 November 2002, and in Region 1 in United States and Canada on 2 November 2004. It is the first of three films based on Baron Cohen's characters fromDa Ali G Show, the second beingBorat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan(2006), and the thirdonürB(2009).

Ali G Indahouse

Plot Ali G is the leader of Da West Staines Massiv, a fictional gang composed of a group of wannabe gangsters from Staines (a suburban town in north Surrey, to the west of London); their chief rivals are Da East Staines Massiv. Ali and Da West Staines Massiv are heartbroken to learn that their beloved local leisure centre (where they like to chill out and also where Ali teaches his "Keep it Real" classes) will be demolished by the local council. Ali and his friends decide to protest this injustice. After he goes on a hunger strike and is spotted chained to some railings by the nefarious Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton (Charles Dance), he is drawn into a world of seedy political intrigue, as the Deputy Prime Minister tries to use Ali as a tool to destroy the Prime Minister's credibility. Ali is put forward as a candidate to be the next MP for Staines in a crucial by-election and manages to alienate most who cross his path, including feminists and the elderly. During a debate with his rival candidate, Ali tries to insult his rival by claiming that he "sucked off a horse". Unknown to Ali and the public, it turns out that the rival did indeed do such a thing, and trying to explain it away, he claims when he was out hunting with a friend he slipped, and his mouth landed on a horse's penis, which due to the mating season was erect. Ali then wins. Although originally seeming out of his depth as a Member of Parliament, Ali's bizarre behaviour and solutions seem to actually work. He visits a Customs checkpoint in Dover, as a delegate compiling a report (though all he does is steal confiscated pornography and drugs). Through ideas such as making more "relatable" education and selectively ensuring the immigration of attractive (or "fit") women into the UK, Ali becomes incredibly popular, meeting the Prime Minister's intentions and bringing his percentage lead in the polls up twenty two percent. With this the Prime Minister offers to save Ali's leisure centre. First though, Ali accompanies the Prime Minister to a United Nations peace conference to avert war between the central African states of Chad and Burkina Faso. The USA and Russia back opposite countries and both threaten nuclear attacks. It gets to the point where World War III is almost declared when Ali sneaks into the catering area and puts an entire bag of marijuana, which he had stolen from Customs earlier, into the delegates' tea and orders that they be served it right away. He throws the empty bag into a nearby rubbish bin. A side-effect is that the two opposing African presidents become allies (in fact they begin to kiss lovingly). The Prime Minister says that Ali has saved the world. However, Carlton's secretary Kate Hedges figures out what Ali has done and retrieves the empty marijuana bag (which has "Ali's stash. DO NOT NICK" written on the back), which she mails to the press. Upon his return to the UK, Ali is forced to leave parliament. Before the Leisure Centre can be saved, a video emerges of Ali and his girlfriend having sex in the Prime Minister's bedroom at Chequers. As Ali was wearing items of the Prime Minister's clothing at the time, the media believe the video details the Prime Minister with a prostitute, forcing his resignation. This results in Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton being made Prime Minister. Carlton, who despises Ali, orders the destruction of the aforementioned leisure centre. He has also bought all available real estate in Staines in the knowledge that the town is to be destroyed to make way for a new terminal for Heathrow Airport, which will make him super wealthy. After turning down an offer to have sex with Kate Hedges, in exchange for "keeping his mouth shut" about the videotape, Ali and the West Staines Massiv must race against time to find the master copy of the CCTV tape proving the former Prime Minister's innocence, extending the olive branch to all the gangs all over Staines and neighbouring Berkshire (even to the East Staines Massiv) to help them break into the vaults and retrieve the said tape. They do this successfully and manage to reinstate the original Prime Minister, save the Leisure Centre, and all live happily ever after when Ali is posted as the British ambassador to Jamaica. Staines is saved from destruction, with the reinstated Prime Minister declaring that Slough is to be destroyed instead. This film features one of Baron Cohen's other characters, Borat, in a meeting with Ali G, where a double was used for different shots. This is the only time that Borat appears to be wearing a fake moustache.