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Aldershot
Coordinates: 51°14′49″N 0°45′35″W / 51.2470°N 0.7598°W / 51.2470; -0.7598
Aldershot is a town in the English county of Hampshire, located on heathland about 60 km (37 mi) southwest of London. The town is administered by Rushmoor Borough Council. The town has a population of 33,840, while the Aldershot Urban Area, a loose conurbation (which also includes other towns, such as Camberley, Farnborough, and Farnham) has a population of 243,344, making it the thirtieth-largest urban area in the UK
Aldershot is known for its connection with the British Army. This led to rapid growth from a small village to a Victorian town. Today, Aldershot is known as the "Home of the British Army". Aldershot is twinned with Sulechów in Poland, Meudon in France and Oberursel in Germany.
The name may have derived from the name of "Alder" trees found in the area (Alder-holt meaning copse of Alder trees), indicating that it was a wet, boggy place. Aldershot, Alreshete, dates back to an Anglo-Saxon settlement. Aldershot was included as part of the old Hundred of Crondall referred to in the Domesday Book of 1086. The map of Hampshire in the 1722 edition of William Camden's Britannia or Geographical Description of Britain and Ireland shows a symbol for habitation in Aldershot in the Crundhal (Crondall) hundred.[citation needed]
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BBC 6 Music
BBC Radio 6 Music is one of the BBC's digital radio stations. It was known officially as BBC 6 Music from its launch on 11 March 2002 until April 2011. 6 Music was the first national music radio station to be launched by the BBC in 32 years. It is available only on digital media: DAB radio, the Internet, digital television, and in northern Europe through the Astra 2B satellite.
It is claimed[by whom?] to be an alternative to the mainstream chart-oriented Radio 1 and Radio 2. It operates a playlist of similar 'A/B/C' structure to Radio 1. In actuality, it regularly shares selective tracks on its 'A' playlist with radio 1's 'A' list (and other tracks played on mainstream stations that have a high play), although less reliant upon than the more mainstream stations.
Evening and weekend programming, however, features a more diverse selection of tracks across genres both popular and on the fringes, with dedicated shows towards different forms of dance, jazz, soul, and Jamaican music, among others. The station also features performances from the BBC music archives, including the "Peel Sessions" put together by John Peel from the late 1960s to his death.
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Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire (
i/ˈhɑrtfərdʃɪər/ or /ˈhɑrfərdʃər/; abbreviated Herts) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England. The county town is Hertford.
Hertfordshire is one of the home counties and lies inland, bordered by Greater London (to the south), Buckinghamshire (to the west), Bedfordshire (including the unitary authorities of Luton and Central Bedfordshire to the north), Cambridgeshire (to the north east) and Essex (to the east).
Hertfordshire was originally the area assigned to a fortress constructed at Hertford under the rule of Edward the Elder in 913. The name Hertford is derived from the Anglo-Saxon heort ford, meaning deer crossing (of a watercourse). The name Hertfordshire first appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1011. Deer feature prominently in many county emblems.
There is evidence of human beings living in Hertfordshire since the Middle Stone Age. It was first farmed during the Neolithic period and permanent habitation appeared at the beginning of the Bronze Age. This was followed by tribes settling in the area during the Iron Age.
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Amanda Abbington
Amanda Abbington (born October 1974) 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. She has also appeared in recurring series such as Coupling, Casualty and Dream Team.
Abbington stars in the Maltesers advertising campaign, where she lifts up her shirt to reveal her bra to frighten a shy work colleague. In another advert, where she mischievously tricks a friend (Katherine Parkinson) into believing the jeans she just placed in the tumbledryer have mysteriously shrunk in size, only for her friend to realize that she swapped the real jeans with a doll's jeans and stuffed them down her top, and in another she and her friend set up their boyfriends in kissing position while they sleep.
Abbington is the longtime partner of British actor Martin Freeman. They have two children, Joe and Grace. The couple appeared together in the film Men Only (2000), which is where they met.
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Andrew Scott (actor)
Andrew Scott (born October 21, 1976) is an Irish film, television, and stage actor. He received the 2005 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre for the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs production of A Girl in a Car with a Man, and an IFTA award for the film Dead Bodies. Scott's notable television roles have included Paul McCartney in the BBC television drama Lennon Naked and arch-villain Jim Moriarty in Sherlock, for which he was awarded the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2012.
Scott dropped out of his Drama degree at Trinity College, Dublin to join Dublin’s famous Abbey Theatre. He made his film debut aged seventeen as the young lead in acclaimed Irish film Korea. After filming a small part in Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, he worked with film and theatre director Karel Reisz in a Gate Theatre production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night for which he won Actor of the Year at the Independent/Spirit of Life Awards and received an Irish Times Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
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Chris Curry
Christopher Curry (born 28 January 1946 in Cambridge) is the co-founder of Acorn Computers, with Hermann Hauser and Andy Hopper.
He went to school initially in St Neots in Cambridgeshire, then later went to the independent Kimbolton School, also in Cambridgeshire. He gained two A levels, in Maths and Physics. He thought about going to university at the University of Southampton, but was keener to be earning some money whilst learning.
He joined Pye in Cambridge in 1964. He stayed for a few months, then left for the Royal Radar Establishment in Worcestershire. He worked on the radar for the proposed BAC TSR-2. The RRE had been the site of many technological advances such as the integrated circuit in 1952. He stayed for nine months. He moved to the W.R. Grace Laboratories, run by ITT, and stayed for six months.
In April 1966, Curry joined Sinclair Radionics, a company founded by Clive Sinclair in 1961. Curry was to play an important role in getting Sinclair interested in both calculators and computers in his thirteen years with the company.
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Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) 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 series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.
Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), Last Chance to See (1990), and three stories for the television series Doctor Who. A posthumous collection of his work, including an unfinished novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.
Adams became known as an advocate for environmental and conservation causes, and also as a lover of fast cars, cameras, and the Apple Macintosh. He was a staunch atheist, famously imagining a sentient puddle who wakes up one morning and thinks, "This is an interesting world I find myself in—an interesting hole I find myself in—fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!" Biologist Richard Dawkins dedicated his book, The God Delusion (2006), to Adams, writing on his death that, "Science has lost a friend, literature has lost a luminary, the mountain gorilla and the black rhino have lost a gallant defender."
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Dr. Watson
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.
Doctor Watson's first name is mentioned on only three occasions. Part one of the very first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, is subtitled 'Being a reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., Late of the Army Medical Department'. In '"The Problem of Thor Bridge"', Watson says that his dispatch box is labeled 'John H. Watson, M.D'.Watson's wife calls him 'James' in "The Man with the Twisted Lip"; Dorothy L. Sayers speculates that Morstan may be referring to his middle name Hamish (which means James in Scottish Gaelic), though Doyle himself never addresses this beyond including the initial. In every other instance, he is called either Doctor or Watson, or both together, and his first name is never used again.
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Edgar Wright
Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) 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. the World and co-writing Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin with Joe Cornish and Steven Moffat.
Wright was born in Poole, Dorset, but grew up predominantly in Wells, Somerset, after his family moved there during his childhood. Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, Wright directed many short films, first on a Super-8 camera which was a gift from a family member and later on a Video-8 camcorder won in a competition on the television programme Going Live. These films were mostly comedic pastiches of popular genres, such as the super hero-inspired Carbolic Soap and Dirty Harry tribute Dead Right (the latter of which was eventually featured on the DVD release of Hot Fuzz).
After graduating from Bournemouth Arts College he made a spoof western, A Fistful of Fingers, which was picked up for a limited theatrical release and broadcast on the British satellite TV channel Sky Movies. Despite Wright's dissatisfaction with the finished product, it caught the attention of comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams, who subsequently chose him as the director of their Paramount Comedy channel productions Mash and Peas and Sir Bernard's Stately Homes. During this time he also worked on BBC programmes such as Is It Bill Bailey? and Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round. In an interview with journalist and author Robert K. Elder for The Film That Changed My Life, Wright cites his edgy and comedic style in his love for An American Werewolf in London:
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Gavin Claxton
Gavin Claxton (born July 19, 1966, Derby, England) British producer, screenwriter and director of the feature film comedy The All Together starring Martin Freeman and Danny Dyer. He is also producer, co-writer and performer - providing the voices of Freddie Mercury & Kurt Cobain - of the British television comedy series House of Rock and series producer, writer & director of numerous comedy and entertainment series on British television.
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Martin Freeman
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.
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 School of Speech and Drama.
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.
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Matthew Macfadyen
David Matthew Macfadyen (born 17 October 1974) is an English actor, known for his role as MI5 intelligence officer Tom Quinn in the BBC television drama series Spooks (also known as MI-5) and for starring as Fitzwilliam Darcy in Pride and Prejudice.
Macfadyen was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, the son of Meinir (née Owen), a drama teacher and former actress, and Martin Macfadyen, an oil worker. His paternal grandparents were Scottish and his maternal grandparents were natives of Wales. Macfadyen was brought up in several locations, including Jakarta, Indonesia, because of his father's profession. He attended schools in England (including in Louth, Lincolnshire), Scotland and Indonesia, and went to Oakham School in Rutland, before being accepted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at age 17.
After having studied at the RADA from 1992 to 1995, Macfadyen quickly became a well-known actor in British theatre due primarily to his work with the stage company Cheek by Jowl, for whom he played Antonio in The Duchess of Malfi, Charles Surface in The School for Scandal, and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. His Benedick was particularly memorable, played as an officer-class buffoon with a moustache and a braying laugh. In 2005, he played to further great acclaim the part of Prince Hal in Henry IV, Parts One and Two at the Royal National Theatre, with Michael Gambon in the role of Falstaff. In 2007, he returned to the stage, portraying an American, Clay, a stay at home father with a liberal attitude in the play The Pain and the Itch.
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Peter Jackson
Sir Peter Robert Jackson, KNZM (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter, who is well known for his The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001 to 2003), adapted from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien.
He won international attention early in his career with his "splatstick" horror comedies beginning with Bad Taste (1987) before coming to mainstream prominence with Heavenly Creatures (1994), for which he shared an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nomination with his wife, Fran Walsh. Jackson has been awarded three Academy Awards in his career, including the award for Best Director in 2003; he also won the BAFTA, Golden Globe and Saturn Award for Best Direction the same year.
His films also include Meet the Feebles (1989), Braindead (1992), Forgotten Silver (1995), The Frighteners (1996), King Kong (2005),The Lovely Bones (2009), and the upcoming The Lord of the Rings prequels The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) and The Hobbit: There and Back Again (2013). He is also the producer of District 9 (2009) and The Adventures of Tintin (2011).
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Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrɛmbrɑnt ˈɦɑrmə(n)soːn vɑn ˈrɛin], 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age, when Dutch Golden Age painting, although in many ways antithetical to the Baroque style that dominated Europe, was extremely prolific and innovative.
Having achieved youthful success as a portrait painter, Rembrandt's later years were marked by personal tragedy and financial hardships. Yet his etchings and paintings were popular throughout his lifetime, his reputation as an artist remained high, and for twenty years he taught many important Dutch painters. Rembrandt's greatest creative triumphs are exemplified especially in his portraits of his contemporaries, self-portraits and illustrations of scenes from the Bible. His self-portraits form a unique and intimate biography, in which the artist surveyed himself without vanity and with the utmost sincerity.
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Richard Curtis
Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, CBE (born 8 November 1956) 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 sitcoms Blackadder, Mr. Bean and The Vicar of Dibley. He is also the founder of the British charity Comic Relief.
Curtis was born in Wellington, New Zealand, the son of Glyness S. and Anthony J. Curtis, who was an executive at Unilever. Curtis and his family lived in several different countries during his childhood, including Sweden and the Philippines. Part of the family still lives in Sydney. Curtis has lived in England since he was 11. He began school at Papplewick School, Ascot (as did his younger brother Jamie). For a short period in the 1970s Curtis lived in Warrington, where he attended Appleton Grammar School, before he won a scholarship to the prestigious Harrow School in London. He achieved a first-class degree in English Language and Literature at Christ Church, Oxford, and it was at Oxford that he met, and began working with, Rowan Atkinson.
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Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (born 13 October 1971) is an English stand-up comedian, writer, actor, and voice actor. A graduate of Cambridge University, Baron Cohen is most widely known for writing and playing four unorthodox fictional characters: Ali G, Borat, Brüno, and Admiral General Aladeen. In his routines, Baron Cohen's characters interact with unsuspecting people who do not realise they are being set up for comic situations and self-revealing ridicule.
Baron Cohen was named Best Newcomer at the 1999 British Comedy Awards for The 11 O'Clock Show, and since then, his work has been further recognised with two BAFTA Awards for Da Ali G Show, several Emmy nominations, a nomination for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay, and a Golden Globe for Best Actor for his work in the feature film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. After the release of Borat, Baron Cohen stated that because the public had become too familiar with the characters, he would retire Borat and Ali G. Similarly, after the release of Brüno, Baron Cohen has stated he would also retire the title character.
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Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes (
/ˈʃɜrlɒk ˈhoʊmz/) 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 adopt almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve difficult cases.
Holmes, who first appeared in publication in 1887, was featured in four novels and 56 short stories. The first novel, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign of the Four, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the first series of short stories in Strand Magazine, beginning with A Scandal in Bohemia in 1891; further series of short stories and two novels published in serial form appeared between then and 1927. The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1914.
All but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson; two are narrated by Holmes himself ("The Blanched Soldier" and "The Lion's Mane") and two others are written in the third person ("The Mazarin Stone" and "His Last Bow"). In two stories ("The Musgrave Ritual" and "The Gloria Scott"), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, while Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. The first and fourth novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Valley of Fear, each include a long interval of omniscient narration recounting events unknown to either Holmes or Watson.
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Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg (born Simon John Beckingham; 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian, writer, film producer, and director. He is best known for having co-written and starred 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, Benji Dunn in Mission: Impossible III and its sequel Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, and Thompson in The Adventures of Tintin. Much of his major work has been in collaboration with some combination of Wright, Nick Frost, Jessica Hynes, and Dylan Moran. He also starred in and co-wrote Paul (with Frost) and Run Fatboy Run (with Michael Ian Black).
Pegg was born in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England, the son of Gillian Rosemary (née Smith), a civil servant, and John Henry Beckingham, a jazz musician and keyboard salesman. His parents divorced when he was seven and he took on the surname "Pegg" after his mother re-married. He attended many schools, including Castle Hill Primary School;[citation needed]Brockworth Comprehensive Secondary School;[citation needed]The King's School, Gloucester; and later Stratford-upon-Avon College to study English literature and Theatre.He studied drama at the University of Bristol and wrote his undergraduate thesis on "A Marxist overview of popular 1970s cinema and hegemonic discourses". At Bristol he appeared in a Drama Society production of Howard Barker's Victory alongside Sarah Kane and David Greig.[citation needed]
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Smokey Robinson
William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is most notable for being the founder and front man of the popular Motown vocal group, The Miracles, for which he also served as the group's chief songwriter and producer. Robinson led the group from its 1955 origins as The Five Chimes until 1972 when he announced a retirement from the stage to focus on his role as Motown's vice president.
However, Robinson returned to the music industry as a solo artist the following year, later having solo hits such as "Baby That's Backatcha", "Quiet Storm", "The Agony and the Ecstasy", "Cruisin'", "Being With You" and "Just to See Her". Following the sale of Motown Records in 1988, Robinson left Motown in 1990. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
Robinson was born in Detroit and raised in the city's North End section. At one point, he and Diana Ross were next-door neighbors; he said he has known Ross since she was eight. Robinson later told reporters when he was a child, his uncle christened him "Smokey Joe", which Robinson assumed was a "cowboy name for me" until he was later told that smokey was a pejorative term for dark-skinned Blacks. Robinson, who is mainly of African American descent and is light-skinned, remembers his uncle saying to him, "I'm doing this so you won't ever forget that you're black." Robinson grew up as a fan of Western films.
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Freeman, Martin Filmography
- The Hobbit: There and Back Again (2014)
- Svengali (2013)
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
- The World's End (2013)
- Saving Santa (2013)
- Animals (2012)
- G4 Presents Comic Con 2012 Live (2012)
- The 64th Primetime Emmy Awards (2012)
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
- The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012)
- What's Your Number? (2011)
- Swinging with the Finkels (2011)
- Almost Famous IV (2011)
- The Voorman Problem (2011)
- Almost Famous IV (2011)
- National Movie Awards (2010)
- The Girl Is Mime (2010)
- Micro Men (2009)
- Svengali (2009)
- HIV: The Musical (2009)
- Nativity! (2009)
- A Night at the Office (2009)
- Backstairs Billy: The Queen Mum's Butler (2009)
- Wild Target (2009)
- Rembrandt's J'Accuse...! (2008)
- Lonely Hearts (2007)
- The All Together (2007)
- The Comedy Christmas (2007)
- Dedication (2007)
- Hot Fuzz (2007)
- The Old Curiosity Shop (2007)
- Nightwatching (2007)
- The Good Night (2007)
- Rubbish (2007)
- The Ultimate Sitcom (2006)
- Confetti (2006)
- Movie Rush (2006)
- Breaking and Entering (2006)
- Long Hot Summer (2006)
- Stranded with a Star (2006)
- Return of the Goodies (2005)
- Blake's Junction 7 (2005)
- Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (2005)
- Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (2005)
- Making of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (2005)
- Not Tonight with John Sergeant (2005)
- Round About Five (2005)
- The Comedians' Comedian (2005)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
- Call Register (2004)
- Shaun of the Dead (2004)
- Property People (2004)
- Pride (2004)
- The BAFTA TV Awards 2004 (2004)
- The British Comedy Awards 2004 (2004)
- Lucy's Cam (2004)
- Comic Relief 2003: The Big Hair Do (2003)
- The Debt (2003)
- Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters (2003)
- Ricky Gervais' and Stephen Merchant's Video Diary of the Making of Series Two of 'The Office' (2003)
- Margery and Gladys (2003)
- Love Actually (2003)
- Ali G Indahouse (2002)
- The Fight (2002)
- Fancy Dress (2001)
- Men Only (2001)
- The Low Down (2000)
- I Just Want to Kiss You (1998)
Famous quotes by Martin Freeman:
"As a result, these families are being destroyed."
"It's been systematic low-balling, high-pressure tactics to get people to accept pennies on the dollar of what they're entitled to. And as a result, these families are being destroyed."
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,"
"[Officials throughout NFIP] deliberately and fraudulently used low-balling, high-pressure tactics to get people to accept pennies on the dollar of what they're entitled to,"
"If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I'd like that. I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard to get up sometimes."
"Once you've switched that switch, then, though you notice that other people are great, you're just not interested."
"Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?"
"Some people have that roar in their head, but I'm not sure I ever did. That live-fast-die-young thing. No one wants it really."
"Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned."
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Hobbit Cast Interviews #01
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- Duration: 4:59
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Hobbit Cast Interviews #01 Ch7 Australia Cast Interviews 27.11.12 Martin Freeman, Andy Serkis & Richard Armitage.
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Hobbit Cast Interviews #01 Ch7 Australia Cast Interviews 27.11.12 Martin Freeman, Andy Serkis & Richard Armitage.
Martin Freeman - Friday Night With Jonathan Ross
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- Duration: 14:05
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
An interview with actor Martin Freeman on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross from 2005. Visit my website at www.drumtracksdirect.co.uk
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An interview with actor Martin Freeman on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross from 2005. Visit my website at www.drumtracksdirect.co.uk
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Martin Freeman - Who Do You Think You Are - 1/5
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- Duration: 12:00
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Who Do You Think You Are? Part 1/5
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Who Do You Think You Are? Part 1/5
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MARTIN FREEMAN: I would cook Jesus pasta
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- Duration: 3:14
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Martin Freeman bears his soul in this revealing monologue to uncover a lesser known side to his personality. In the characteristic dry humour of many of his on-screen aliases, Martin tells how he would like to have Jesus over to dinner just to get to the truth and that he would cook him pasta because he does love Italian. For more information visit: www.sony.co.uk/monolithic
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Martin Freeman bears his soul in this revealing monologue to uncover a lesser known side to his personality. In the characteristic dry humour of many of his on-screen aliases, Martin tells how he would like to have Jesus over to dinner just to get to the truth and that he would cook him pasta because he does love Italian. For more information visit: www.sony.co.uk/monolithic
- published: 10 May 2010
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Martin Freeman - The One Show 13 Jan 2012
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- Duration: 4:15
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Martin's appearance on the One Show. He's asked about his relationship with Benedict and about both of them working on The Hobbit films. Episode clip edited out but its already on You tube at youtu.be
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Martin's appearance on the One Show. He's asked about his relationship with Benedict and about both of them working on The Hobbit films. Episode clip edited out but its already on You tube at youtu.be
- published: 13 Jan 2012
- views: 69005
- author: romangirl88
The Hobbit US premiere: Stars including Elijah Wood and Martin Freeman turn out
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- Duration: 1:51
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
The cast of new movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hit the red carpet in New York for the US premiere of the film. Report by Lauren Hood. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com and follow us on Twitter at twitter.com . Subscribe to The Showbiz 411! www.youtube.com
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The cast of new movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hit the red carpet in New York for the US premiere of the film. Report by Lauren Hood. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com and follow us on Twitter at twitter.com . Subscribe to The Showbiz 411! www.youtube.com
- published: 07 Dec 2012
- views: 3571
- author: itn
David Letterman - Martin Freeman's Hobbit Journey
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- Duration: 3:41
- Updated: 08 Dec 2012
Actor Martin Freeman talks about the making of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey."
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Actor Martin Freeman talks about the making of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey."
- published: 05 Dec 2012
- views: 7471
- author: CBS
Josh Groban & Martin Freeman | Never Mind the Buzzcocks
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- Duration: 13:35
- Updated: 07 Dec 2012
Josh Groban and Martin Freeman on Never Mind the Buzzcocks "Please, reggae."
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Josh Groban and Martin Freeman on Never Mind the Buzzcocks "Please, reggae."
- published: 05 Nov 2011
- views: 28242
- author: sakayo923
Derren saps Martin Freeman's strength with a Crystal and Mobile Phone - Derren Brown: Trick or Treat
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:47
- Updated: 07 Dec 2012
Actor Martin Freeman has his strength sapped by just a crystal and mobile phone as Derren watches on. For more amazing clips of Derren subscribe to our channel - www.youtube.com
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Actor Martin Freeman has his strength sapped by just a crystal and mobile phone as Derren watches on. For more amazing clips of Derren subscribe to our channel - www.youtube.com
- published: 04 May 2012
- views: 12760
- author: OfficialDerren
The Graham Norton Show S10x11 Gerard Butler, Karen Gillan, Martin Freeman Part 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 13:04
- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
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- published: 07 Aug 2012
- views: 1211
- author: GrahamNortonTvUSA
Hobbit Japanese Press Conference, part 1
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- Duration: 10:15
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Hobbit press conference in Tokyo, Japan on December 1 before premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, with Richard, Armitage, Martin Freeman, Peter Jackson, Andy Serkis and Elijah Wood. For more Richard Armitage news, visit our website: richardarmitagecentral.co.uk
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Hobbit press conference in Tokyo, Japan on December 1 before premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, with Richard, Armitage, Martin Freeman, Peter Jackson, Andy Serkis and Elijah Wood. For more Richard Armitage news, visit our website: richardarmitagecentral.co.uk
- published: 01 Dec 2012
- views: 6932
- author: RACentral
F*** You I won a BAFTA- Martin Freeman
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- Duration: 0:17
- Updated: 08 Dec 2012
A clip from The Graham Norton Show- displaying the awesomeness that is Martin Freeman
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A clip from The Graham Norton Show- displaying the awesomeness that is Martin Freeman
- published: 07 Jan 2012
- views: 68799
- author: LonelyMarshmallow
Martin Freeman and Amanda Abbington presenting The Steve Show - BBC 6 Music Part 1/4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 15:01
- Updated: 08 Dec 2012
Martin Freeman and partner Amanda Abbington take over Stephen Merchant's radio show when he was ill.
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Martin Freeman and partner Amanda Abbington take over Stephen Merchant's radio show when he was ill.
- published: 07 Jun 2012
- views: 3784
- author: livoyyo
Japanese Premiere of the Hobbit - Stars on Stage part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:22
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Andy Serkis, Peter Jackson, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage and Elijah Wood on stage at the Japanese Premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 1 December 2012. Part 2 here: www.youtube.com
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Andy Serkis, Peter Jackson, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage and Elijah Wood on stage at the Japanese Premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 1 December 2012. Part 2 here: www.youtube.com
- published: 01 Dec 2012
- views: 11481
- author: RichardArmitageNet
The Hobbit World Premiere Highlights: Peter Jackson, Martin Freeman
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:31
- Updated: 08 Dec 2012
bit.ly - The Hobbit Trailer bit.ly - Click to Subscribe! Facebook.com - Become a Fan! Twitter.com - Follow Us! The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opens in theaters December 14th, 2012. Cast: Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Cate Blanchett, Stephen Fry, Aidan Turner, Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Evangeline Lilly, Bret McKenzie, Lee Pace, Luke Evans, Benedict Cumberbatch and Barry Humphries "The Hobbit" follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakensheild. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers. Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever. Gollum. Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum's "precious" ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo ...
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bit.ly - The Hobbit Trailer bit.ly - Click to Subscribe! Facebook.com - Become a Fan! Twitter.com - Follow Us! The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opens in theaters December 14th, 2012. Cast: Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Cate Blanchett, Stephen Fry, Aidan Turner, Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Evangeline Lilly, Bret McKenzie, Lee Pace, Luke Evans, Benedict Cumberbatch and Barry Humphries "The Hobbit" follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakensheild. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers. Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever. Gollum. Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum's "precious" ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo ...
- published: 28 Nov 2012
- views: 8008
- author: ClevverMovies
Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman Interview
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:05
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Promoting Sherlock
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Promoting Sherlock
- published: 01 Aug 2010
- views: 365680
- author: feilongfan
Martin Freeman - clip from Graham Norton Show, 6 Jan 2012
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:46
- Updated: 08 Dec 2012
Recorded this while watching it live on iplayer so might as well upload it here for those outside UK.
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Recorded this while watching it live on iplayer so might as well upload it here for those outside UK.
- published: 07 Jan 2012
- views: 53473
- author: deareje
Martin Freeman 'excited about The Hobbit'
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:23
- Updated: 05 Dec 2012
Martin Freeman says he is excited about the Hobbit, but probably won't get to see it before anyone else. Report by Sam Datta-Paulin. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com and follow us on Twitter at twitter.com . Subscribe to The Showbiz 411! www.youtube.com
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Martin Freeman says he is excited about the Hobbit, but probably won't get to see it before anyone else. Report by Sam Datta-Paulin. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com and follow us on Twitter at twitter.com . Subscribe to The Showbiz 411! www.youtube.com
- published: 20 Oct 2012
- views: 3416
- author: itn
The Pirates! Band of Misfits - Martin Freeman Pirate with Scarf Side by Side Match-Up
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:04
- Updated: 06 Dec 2012
Martin Freeman recording voices for "The Pirates! Band of Misfits".
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Martin Freeman recording voices for "The Pirates! Band of Misfits".
- published: 17 May 2012
- views: 9643
- author: DamonSeverusSherlock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Featurette - Dinner Party (2012) - Peter Jackson Movie HD
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- Duration: 2:53
- Updated: 08 Dec 2012
Subscribe to TRAILERS: bit.ly Subscribe to COMING SOON: bit.ly The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Featurette - Dinner Party (2012) - Peter Jackson Movie HD A curious Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, journeys to the Lonely Mountain with a vigorous group of Dwarves to reclaim a treasure stolen from them by the dragon Smaug. Cast: Hugo Weaving: j.mp Martin Freeman: j.mp Elijah Wood: j.mp Cate Blanchett: j.mp Orlando Bloom: j.mp Christopher Lee: j.mp Ian McKellen: j.mp Billy Connolly: j.mp Andy Serkis: j.mp Lee Pace: j.mp Ian Holm: j.mp Director: Peter Jackson: j.mp Producer: Toby Emmerich: j.mp Callum Greene: j.mp Peter Jackson: j.mp Carolynne Cunningham: j.mp Philippa Boyens: j.mp Ken Kamins: j.mp Fran Walsh: j.mp Writer: JRR Tolkien: j.mp Peter Jackson: j.mp Fran Walsh: j.mp Guillermo del Toro: j.mp Philippa Boyens: j.mp Editor: Jabez Olssen: j.mp Cinematographer: Andrew Lesnie: j.mp Composer: Howard Shore: j.mp Hobbit "Hobbit trailer" "Hobbit movie" "hobbit tv spot" "Hugo Weaving" "Martin Freeman" "Elijah Wood" "Cate Blanchett" "Orlando Bloom" movieclips movieclipstrailers movieclips movieclipsDOTcom movieclipscomingsoon jaltimier "unexpected journey"
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Subscribe to TRAILERS: bit.ly Subscribe to COMING SOON: bit.ly The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Featurette - Dinner Party (2012) - Peter Jackson Movie HD A curious Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, journeys to the Lonely Mountain with a vigorous group of Dwarves to reclaim a treasure stolen from them by the dragon Smaug. Cast: Hugo Weaving: j.mp Martin Freeman: j.mp Elijah Wood: j.mp Cate Blanchett: j.mp Orlando Bloom: j.mp Christopher Lee: j.mp Ian McKellen: j.mp Billy Connolly: j.mp Andy Serkis: j.mp Lee Pace: j.mp Ian Holm: j.mp Director: Peter Jackson: j.mp Producer: Toby Emmerich: j.mp Callum Greene: j.mp Peter Jackson: j.mp Carolynne Cunningham: j.mp Philippa Boyens: j.mp Ken Kamins: j.mp Fran Walsh: j.mp Writer: JRR Tolkien: j.mp Peter Jackson: j.mp Fran Walsh: j.mp Guillermo del Toro: j.mp Philippa Boyens: j.mp Editor: Jabez Olssen: j.mp Cinematographer: Andrew Lesnie: j.mp Composer: Howard Shore: j.mp Hobbit "Hobbit trailer" "Hobbit movie" "hobbit tv spot" "Hugo Weaving" "Martin Freeman" "Elijah Wood" "Cate Blanchett" "Orlando Bloom" movieclips movieclipstrailers movieclips movieclipsDOTcom movieclipscomingsoon jaltimier "unexpected journey"
- published: 08 Nov 2012
- views: 5041
- author: MovieclipsCOMINGSOON
The Graham Norton Show S10x11 Gerard Butler, Karen Gillan, Martin Freeman Part 2 YouTube2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 13:04
- Updated: 24 Nov 2012
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- published: 23 Nov 2012
- views: 66
- author: George Francis
Martin Freeman - BAFTA Best Supporting Actor 2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:49
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Gutted for Benedict this year but happy to see Martin pick up best supporting actor
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Gutted for Benedict this year but happy to see Martin pick up best supporting actor
- published: 22 May 2011
- views: 102184
- author: romangirl88
Martin Freeman visits David Letterman 2005
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- Duration: 6:45
- Updated: 08 Dec 2012
Martin drops by Dave's theater to promote The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy but Dave is much more interested in discussing the original British version of "The Office"
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Martin drops by Dave's theater to promote The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy but Dave is much more interested in discussing the original British version of "The Office"
- published: 14 Feb 2010
- views: 36055
- author: Anglogirl1
photo: AP / Khalil Hamra
09 Dec 2012
Syria's rebel leaders have agreed to come under a united command in a bid to integrate diverse fighting groups and streamline the route for arms essential to their struggle against President Bashar al-Assad. The new body, expected to be announced officially on Sunday, hopes to form the basis of a united rebel front ... "It also aims to get the situation under control once the regime falls." ... 378 Source.. Agencies. Share ... News ... Egypt....(size: 18.6Kb)
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07 Dec 2012
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. The in- and out-fighting between present-day Saudi Arabia and Iran is a mirror image of what occurred to Prophet Muhammad's Islamic Movement right after his death ... Still, and due to prosperity and wealth, an influx of trade goods, religious toleration, an emphasis on learning, and increased food supplies, Islam was becoming a vast empire ... Recent U.S ... Dallas Darling (darling@wn.com)....(size: 7.5Kb)
photo: AP / Hassan Ammar
08 Dec 2012
Mohamed Morsi, the Egyptian president, is expected to press ahead with talks on ways to end Egypt's worst crisis since he took office even though the country's main opposition leaders have vowed to boycott negotiations. The capital Cairo and other cities have been rocked by violent protests since November 22, when Morsi issued a decree awarding himself sweeping powers that put him above the law ... 575 Source.. Al Jazeera and agencies ... ....(size: 19.5Kb)
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08 Dec 2012
There has been a historic shift in the UN climate talks in Qatar, with the prospect of rich nations having to compensate poor nations for losses due to climate change. The US has fiercely opposed the measure - it says the cost could be unlimited. But after angry tussles throughout the night the principle of Loss and Damage is now in the final negotiating text ... The political stakes are high ... "I will block this ... "I will block this ... ....(size: 3.1Kb)
New York Daily News
09 Dec 2012
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Martin Freeman tried hard on the set of “The Hobbit” not to think about the international spotlight that was going to focus on him like the Eye of Sauron once the movie opens on Dec ... Martin Freeman as the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins in the fantasy adventure “The Hobbit."....(size: 1.4Kb)
New York Daily News
09 Dec 2012
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Martin Freeman tried hard on the set of “The Hobbit” not to think about the international spotlight that was going to focus on him like the Eye of Sauron once the movie opens on Dec ... Martin Freeman as the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins in the fantasy adventure “The Hobbit."....(size: 1.4Kb)
IMDb
09 Dec 2012
IMDb
09 Dec 2012
Set 60 years before the events of The Lord of The Rings, we find a young, mild-mannered Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) who, whilst puffing on the finest ......(size: 0.8Kb)
The Observer
09 Dec 2012
Dragons, dwarfs, magical rings and benevolent wizards. Britain is about to embark on a quest for escapism ... But it's not the fantasy that draws us, it's the nostalgia ... Martin Freeman, who plays Bilbo, the eponymous hobbit, is perfectly cast. he epitomises our national combination of decency and derring-do. Not everyone will be delighted ... Irascibility is very English too ... Share ... ....(size: 3.6Kb)
The Miami Herald
09 Dec 2012
Big screen. Opening Friday. The Hobbit (PG-13) Director Peter Jackson ( The Lord of the Rings) returns to Middle Earth with this first installment in a $500 million trilogy of films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel. Martin Freeman is the young Bilbo Baggins who accompanies the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and a gang of dwarves on a series of adventures ... Rene Rodriguez ... ....(size: 1.8Kb)
The Observer
09 Dec 2012
Aidan Turner, Andy Serkis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Billy Connolly, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Elijah Wood, Evangeline Lilly, Hugo Weaving, Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, Lee Pace, Luke Evans, Martin Freeman, Orlando Bloom, Richard Armitage, Sir Ian McKellen, Stephen Fry More on this film ... Martin [Freeman] is, apart from anything else, a great comedian, as, of course, are Billy Connolly, Stephen Fry, Jimmy Nesbitt....(size: 17.2Kb)
Digital Spy
09 Dec 2012
Hugh Jackman has joked that he will take the James Bond role when Daniel Craig gives up. Speaking at the Les Misérables UK premiere, the actor said that he would like to play the iconic British secret agent ... "I will just wait ... > Hugh Jackman ... What's the verdict?Soulful performance from Martin Freeman elevates a lightweight first chapter ... What's the verdict?Soulful performance from Martin Freeman elevates a lightweight first chapter ... 01....(size: 8.5Kb)
The Guardian
09 Dec 2012
The Hobbit ... Photograph. Warner Bros/AP. "Unexpected" is right, for a couple of reasons ... There can be no doubt that Jackson has made The Hobbit with brio and fun, and Martin Freeman is just right as Bilbo Baggins ... It is a terrific scene, a contest of nerves, a duel of wits, and the one moment in the film where the drama really comes alive and Freeman's (admirable) underplaying of the role works well against Serkis's animal paranoia ... ....(size: 6.2Kb)
The Independent
09 Dec 2012
There is a sense of sledgehammers being used to crack nuts in the first part of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy. J.R.R ... The personable home-loving hobbit Bilbo Baggins (very engagingly played by Martin Freeman) is prised out of his country retreat by Gandalf and the 13 Dwarves and signed up to accompany them on their quest to reclaim their lost kingdom of Erebor ... It’s only when Bilbo and co....(size: 3.2Kb)
New York Daily News
09 Dec 2012
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — British actor Richard Armitage realized “The Hobbit. An Unexpected Journey” was no ordinary film right after a helicopter dropped him off on the side of a mountain. That happened in the hill country of New Zealand’s South Island ... Middle Earth, meet middle of nowhere ... There were no paths, there were no power lines ... Set 60 years before “Rings,” the movie follows mild-mannered Bilbo (Martin Freeman) ... ....(size: 3.2Kb)
The Examiner
09 Dec 2012
Breaking Dawn Part 2, and critically acclaimed films like Ben Affleck's Argo and Silver Linings Playbook becoming crowd-pleasing hits ... Martin Freeman plays a younger Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit ... Starring newcomers Martin Freeman and Richard Armitage, along with returning favourites like Ian McKellan as Gandalf and Andy Serkis as Gollum, Jackson has crafted a new digitally enhanced experience for his return trip to the series ... ....(size: 9.3Kb)
For other people named Martin Freeman, see Martin Freeman (disambiguation).
| Martin Freeman | |
|---|---|
 Martin Freeman during filming of Sherlock in 2010 |
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| Born | Martin John C. Freeman (1971-09-08) 8 September 1971 (age 40) Aldershot, Hampshire, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1997 – present |
| Awards | BAFTA TV - Best Supporting Actor for Sherlock (2011) |
Martin John C. Freeman (born 8 September 1971)[1] 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.[2]
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Early life[link]
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 School of Speech and Drama.[3][4]
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.[5] 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.
Career[link]
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 the decision to pursue it as a career.[3]
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 in The Office. He also appeared in the sitcom Hardware. 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.[6]
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.
Freeman will play Bilbo Baggins, the main character in the two-part Peter Jackson film series The Hobbit.[7][8]
Personal life[link]
Freeman resides in Hertfordshire with his partner,[9] actress Amanda Abbington, whom he met on the set of Channel 4’s Men Only in 2000. The couple have a son and daughter,[3][4] and have since appeared in other productions together, including Picking Up The Pieces, The Debt, The Robinsons and the feature film comedy The All Together.
Freeman is a lifelong fan of Motown music and interviewed Smokey Robinson in an edition of The Culture Show aired in October 2009.[10]
Freeman is a vegetarian.[11]
Filmography[link]
Films[link]
| 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 | Ricky C | |
| 2003 | Love Actually | John | |
| 2004 | Blake's Junction 7 | Vila | Short film |
| Call Register | Kevin | ||
| Shaun of the Dead | Declan | Cameo | |
| 2005 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Arthur Dent | |
| 2006 | Confetti | Matt | |
| Breaking and Entering | Sandy | ||
| 2007 | Dedication | Jeremy | |
| The Good Night | Gary Shaller | ||
| Hot Fuzz | Met. Sergeant | ||
| Lonely Hearts | The pig | Short film | |
| The All Together | Chris Ashworth | ||
| Rubbish | Kevin | Short film | |
| Nightwatching | Rembrandt | ||
| 2008 | Rembrandt's J'Accuse | Rembrandt | Documentary (related to the previous year's Nightwatching) |
| 2009 | Nativity! | Paul Maddens | |
| HIV: The Musical | James McKenzie | Awaiting release | |
| Swinging with the Finkels | Alvin Finkel | ||
| 2010 | Wild Target | Dixon | |
| 2011 | What's Your Number? | Simon | |
| 2012 | The Pirates! Band of Misfits | The Pirate with a Scarf | Voice |
| The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Bilbo Baggins | Filming[12][13] | |
| 2013 | The Hobbit: There and Back Again |
Television[link]
| Year | Series | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | The Bill | Craig Parnell | Episode 13.3: "Mantrap" |
| This Life | Stuart | Episode 2.1: "Last Tango in Southwark" | |
| 1998 | Casualty | Ricky Beck | Episode 13.8: "She Loved the Rain" |
| Picking up the Pieces | Brendan | Episode 1.7 | |
| 2000 | Bruiser | Various characters | Appeared in all six episodes |
| Lock, Stock... | Jaap | Appeared in two episodes | |
| Black Books | Doctor | Episode 1.1: "Cooking the Books" | |
| 2001 | Men Only | Jamie | TV film |
| World of Pub | Various characters | Appeared in five episodes | |
| 2001–2003 | The Office | Tim Canterbury | Appeared in all 14 episodes |
| 2002 | Helen West | Unknown | Episode 1.2: "Shadow Play" |
| Linda Green | Matt | Episode 2.8: "Easy Come, Easy Go" | |
| 2003 | The Debt | Terry Ross | TV film |
| Margery and Gladys | D.S. Stringer | TV film | |
| Charles II: The Power and The Passion | Lord Shaftesbury | TV mini-series | |
| 2003–2004 | Hardware | Mike | |
| 2004 | Pride | Fleck | TV film |
| 2005 | The Robinsons | Ed Robinson | Appeared in all six episodes |
| 2007 | Comedy Showcase | Greg Wilson | Special 1.1: Other People |
| The Old Curiosity Shop | Mr. Codlin | TV film | |
| 2008 | When Were We Funniest? | Himself | Appeared in four episodes |
| 2009 | Boy Meets Girl | Danny Reed | TV mini-series |
| Micro Men | Chris Curry | TV film | |
| 2010–present | Sherlock | Dr. John Watson | 7 episodes |
| 2010 | The Girl is Mime[14] | Clive Buckle; lead actor | Short film, part of the 48 Hour Film Project in London |
Awards and nominations[link]
| Year | Nominated For | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | The Office | British Comedy Awards | Best Comedy Actor | Nominated |
| 2004 | The Office (for "The Office Christmas Special") | BAFTAs | Best Comedy Performance | Nominated |
| British Comedy Awards | Best TV Comedy Actor | Nominated | ||
| Love Actually | Phoenix Film Critics Society | Best Ensemble Acting | Nominated | |
| Hardware | Rose d'Or | Best Male Comedy Performance | Won | |
| 2011 | Sherlock | BAFTAs | Best Supporting Actor | Won |
| 2012 | Pending |
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- Martin Freeman BBC Radio Gloucestershire interview (feb 2007)
- Boy Meets Girl Interview
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| Name | Freeman, Martin |
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| Date of birth | 8 September 1971 |
| Place of birth | Aldershot, Hampshire, England |
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