Martin Freeman

Date of Birth: Sep 8, 1971
Country: UK
Biography: Martin John Christopher Freeman is an English actor. He is best known for his portrayals of Tim Canterbury in The Office, Dr. Watson in Sherlock, Lester Nygaard in Fargo and Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy.
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A radical animated retelling of the holiday classic that starts with a Victorian performance of the Charles Dickens tale before diving into the imagination of one of the children in the audience, taking the story to a darker fantasy realm.
Breeders (2020) - TV Series
A comedic look at the trials and tribulations of parenthood.
A Confession (2019) - TV Mini-Series
Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher intends on catching a killer of a missing woman, even if that may cost him his career and reputation. (imdb)
An undercover agent, Rachel, works for Israeli intelligence Mossad, participating in a spy program against Iran's "nuclear" plans. Her mission threatens to destroy the life of her new love Farhad. After Rachel disappears, her former mentor, Thomas, tries to follow her all the way. (imdb)
Charlie suffers from cataplexy, a symptom of narcolepsy that causes sudden bouts of paralysis whenever he experiences strong emotions -- in particular, joy. He develops a variety of ...
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To Provide All People (2018) - TV Movie
To mark the 70th anniversary of the birth of the NHS, acclaimed poet Owen Sheers takes us on a journey that weaves the extraordinary story of the birthing of Nye Bevan's vision of free healthcare for all people with personal stories of the NHS in British society today. (imdb)
Arch skeptic Professor Phillip Goodman embarks upon a terror-filled quest when he stumbles across a long-lost file containing details of three cases of inexplicable 'hauntings'. (imdb)
Cargo is a post apocalyptic thriller and an emotional story of a father trying to save his child at all costs. (imdb)
T'Challa, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation to succeed to the throne and take his rightful place as king. (imdb)
The Lying Detective (2017) - TV Episode
Sherlock faces perhaps the most chilling enemy of his long career: the powerful and seemingly unassailable Culverton Smith - a man with a very dark secret indeed. (BBC)
The Six Thatchers (2017) - TV Episode
Sherlock waits to see where Moriarty will make his posthumous move. One mysterious case in particular baffles Scotland Yard - but Sherlock is more interested in a seemingly-trivial detail. Why is someone destroying images of the late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher? Is there a madman on the loose? Or is there a much darker purpose at work? Something with its roots deep in Mary Watson's past? (imdb)
The Final Problem (2017) - TV Episode
A dark secret in the Holmes family rears its head with a vengeance, putting Sherlock and friends through a series of sick, manipulative psychological and potentially fatal games
StartUp (2016) - TV Series
Miami - A desperate banker needs to conceal stolen money. A Haitian-American gang lord wants to go legit. A Cuban-American hacker has an idea that will revolutionize the very future of money itself. Forced to work together, they unwittingly create their version of the American dream - organized crime 2.0. (imdb)
A journalist recounts her wartime coverage in Afghanistan and Pakistan. (imdb)
The Abominable Bride (2016) - TV Episode
"The special is called the Abominable Bride," announced Gatiss, adding that it is based on 'Ricoletti of the club foot and his abominable wife', which is one of the cases Watson refers to in the original Sherlock Holmes stories but not one that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle actually wrote.
Stick Man (2015) - Short Film
Stick Man lives in the family tree with his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three, and he's heading on an epic adventure across the seasons. Will he get back to his family in time for Christmas? (imdb)
The Eichmann Show (2015) - TV Movie
Dramatisation of the team hoping to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an infamous nazi responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews. It focuses on Leo Hurwitz, a documentary film-maker and Milton Fruchtman, a producer.
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns (2014) - Short Film
Prequel to Sherlock series 3. John and Lestrade try to move on with their lives after Sherlock's apparent death. However, Anderson believes he is still alive. (imdb)
Fargo (2014) - TV Series
The all new "true crime" case of Fargo's new chapter travels back to 1979 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Luverne, Minnesota, where a young State Police Officer investigates a case involving a local crime gang and a major Mob syndicate. (imdb)
Bilbo and Company are forced to be engaged in a war against an array of combatants and keeping the terrifying Smaug from acquiring a kingdom of treasure. and obliterating all of Middle-Earth. (imdb)
His Last Vow (2014) - TV Episode
Sherlock must deal with a new nemesis while solving the case of stolen letters. (imdb)
The Sign of Three (2014) - TV Episode
Sherlock faces his biggest challenge of all - delivering a Best Man's speech on John's wedding day! But all isn't quite as it seems. Mortal danger stalks the reception - and someone might not make it to the happy couple's first dance. Sherlock must thank the bridesmaids, solve the case and stop a killer.
The Empty Hearse (2014) - TV Episode
Two years after the devastating effects of The Reichenbach Fall, Dr John Watson has got on with his life. New horizons, romance and a comforting domestic future beckon. But, with London under threat of a huge terrorist attack, Sherlock Holmes is about to rise from the grave with all the theatricality that comes so naturally to him. It's what his best friend wanted more than anything, but for John Watson it might well be a case of 'be careful what you wish for'.
The dwarves, along with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey, continue their quest to reclaim Erebor, their homeland, from Smaug. Bilbo Baggins is in possession of a mysterious and magical ring. (imdb)
A lowly stable elf finds that he is the only one who can stop an invasion of the North Pole by using the secret of Santa's Sleigh, a TimeGlobe, to travel back in time to Save Santa - twice. (imdb)
Svengali tells the story of Dixie (Jonny Owen), a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he's dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them... 'The Premature Congratulations'. He hunts them down and offers them his management services. They are young, arrogant, sexy and utterly magnificent. Putting their demo on a cassette tape, Dixie heads out onto the streets of London... (svengalimovie.com)
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival. (imdb)
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. (imdb)
The Reichenbach Fall (2012) - TV Episode
Sherlock has developed something of a public profile having successfully recovered two kidnapped children. A tabloid journalist is after him and makes it quite plain that she can either be a friend or a foe. Sherlock soon realizes that he is up against his old foe, the master criminal Moriarty, who assists others in the criminal underworld in planning their crimes.
The Hounds of Baskerville (2012) - TV Episode
Twenty years earlier,aged seven,young Henry Knight saw his father torn to pieces by a monstrous creature at Dewer's Hollow near their Dartmoor home. Now Henry has seen the footprints of a huge beast and suspects that the nearby Baskerville government research station is breeding mutant animals. Sherlock and John travel to the moor where local lad Fletcher organizes tourist walks cashing in on the legend of Dartmoor's spectral hound. Using false I.D.
Pol is a teenager with a seemingly calm life: he lives with his brother and is still in high school. However, Pol has a secret: Deerhoof, a cuddly teddy bear who thinks, moves around and with whom he shares his best moments. Life goes on as normal until the arrival of Ikari, an enigmatic student who seems to be hiding something. Pol is fascinated by his new classmate and attracted to the dark side he harbors. (imdb)
The Voorman Problem (2012) - Short Film
Doctor Williams is called in to examine the enigmatic Mr Voorman, a prisoner with a peculiar affliction: he believes he is a god. The Doctor must decide on the sanity of Mr Voorman - is he a faker or a lunatic? But before making a decision, the Doctor has several questions in relation to Voorman's claims: why would a god choose to be straitjacketed in a prison, is there a way he can validate his boast and what has any of this got to do with Belgium? (imdb)
A Scandal in Belgravia (2012) - TV Episode
Following a bizarre stand-off with master criminal Moriarty, ended when the villain responds to a phone call, Sherlock interrupts his investigation of a rural slaying when summoned to Buckingham Palace. Dominatrix Irene Adler has incriminating photos of a royal princess which Sherlock is engaged to retrieve.
Pirate Captain sets out on a mission to defeat his rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz for the Pirate of the year Award. The quest takes Captain and his crew from the shores of Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. (imdb)
The Blind Banker (2010) - TV Episode
Sherlock Holmes is on the job while people are getting murdered left & right - one in a museum/auction house, one a banker in his home, and another after a long foot chase. What do they have in common? And where did the museum worker disappear to who found the first victim? And who was the man who tried to take Sherlock's head?
Hitman fails to kill one of his targets. He protects her and takes young man who saved his life as his apprentice. Together they run away from another assassin and his angry boss.
Sherlock (2010) - TV Series
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London. (imdb)
A Study in Pink (2010) - TV Special
In a re-telling of the classic story set in modern day London, Dr. John Watson, recently invalided out of the army following his service in Afghanistan, agrees to share a flat with a private detective, Sherlock Holmes. Watson is amazed at Holmes' powers of observation as well as at his eccentricities. Holmes has occasionally helped the police and DI Lestrade in particular whose current case is most baffling...
The story of Alvin and Ellie's, a couple living in London at 'breaking point' in their relationship. We are in the present day, looking back at the eventful moments in their lives. Two young students, Alvin and Ellie, meet at university, fall in and out of love, discuss music, hair and other less important things. Ellie is from the U.S. and they do things differently there. We jump 10 years and they are now married and have successful careers but do they have time for each other? (imdb)
The Great Game (2010) - TV Episode
Sherlock's brother Mycroft presents him with a case of utmost importance to the country and the government.While proceeding to solve that case, Sherlock encounters difficult distractions from a mysterious villain who abducts people and threatens to kill them unless his demands, which are meant for Sherlock. Dodging all this distractions, Sherlock solves the original case but comes face to face with this deadly intelligent villain, Sherlock's archenemy, Professor Moriarty!
Micro Men (2009) - TV Movie
Comic drama about the British home computer boom of the early 1980s. Legendary inventor Clive Sinclair battles it out with ex-employee Chris Curry, founder of Acorn Computers, for dominance in the fledgling market, but is the country big enough for both men? (BBC)
An improvised comedy based around a school nativity play. (imdb)
J'accuse is an essayistic documentary in which Greenaway's fierce criticism of today's visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt's Nightwatch. (imdb)
Martin Freeman plays Chris, a frustrated TV producer who is forced to leave his unreliable flatmate Bob played by Velibor Topic in charge of showing a series of real estate agents around the house he is trying to sell. Worried by Bob's habit of spending all day working in the basement playing loud music, Chris asks his friend to listen out for the door bell and show anyone who comes calling inside... (imdb)
Dedication is a modern love story in which the misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children's book series is forced to team with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend and creative collaborator passes away. As Henry struggles with letting go of the ghosts of love and life, he discovers that maybe all it takes is a little dedication to find love. (The Weinstein Company)
Gary, a once successful musician, struggles with his career and an inert relationship with his girlfriend Dora.
Rubbish (2007) - Short Film
Kevin is taking out the bins from his apt but won't take his neighbor Julian's multiple bags down to the recycling. On his way back he bumps into his new neighbor Isobel who, it transpires is not only gorgeous but also needs to know where the bins are. Kevin says he was just going and grabs his neighbours bags as his own before rejoining her and taking her downstairs. Unfortunately Isobel discovers that someone had dumped their black bag in the recycling bin and sets out to put them straight.
With the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt's birth in 2006, NIGHTWATCHING is truly a feast for the senses. Extravagant, suspenseful and sensuously beautiful, the mystery behind the extraordinary artist's infamous painting is perfectly explored by one of the most iconic Directors of our time - Peter Greenaway... (imdb)
A sharp and affectionate comedy featuring an ensemble of UK comedic talents, Confetti follows three couples as they duke it out to win a bridal magazine contest for "Most Original Wedding of the Year." (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
A story about theft, both criminal and emotional, Breaking & Entering follows a disparate group of long-term Londoners and new arrivals whose lives intersect in the inner-city area of King's Cross. (The Weinstein Company)
Don't Panic... Stick out your thumb to join the most ordinary man in the world on an extra-ordinary adventure across the universe in this hilarious comedy. (Touchstone Pictures)
A guy borrows his best friend's mobile phone in order to call a girl he recently met, but the phone recognizes the number being dialed, leading to a number of awkward and funny complications. (imdb)
Pride (2004) - TV Movie
The story of Suki, a lioness cub, who rebels against her mother and her Pride to mate with an unsuitable lion from the other side of the river. Her journey to less a comfortable environment teaches her much. She re-crosses the river to defend her Pride from invading wanderers led by her former suitor. (imdb)
This romantic zombie comedy follows the bloody funny adventures of underachiever Shaun and his best mate Ed as they cope with a zombie invasion of North London and attempt to rescue Shaun's girlfriend Liz and his Mum. It's going to be one hell of a weekend.
This ultimate romantic comedy weaves together a spectacular number of love affairs into one amazing story. (Universal Pictures)
The Last King (2003) - TV Mini-Series
This lavish British mini-series chronicles the life and times of England's King Charles II (Rufus Sewell), the first king to reign after the nation's 11-year tenure as Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell. The drama follows young Charles from his father's execution to his subsequent exile in France and his eventual return to the throne, focusing primarily on the decadence of the Restoration court and the king's many mistresses.
Hardware (2003) - TV Series
Hardware is set in "Hamway's Hardware Store" in London, where main character Mike (Martin Freeman) works with Steve (Ryan Cartwright) and Kenny (Peter Serafinowicz) for shop owner Rex (Ken Morley). They relax at the next-door-but-one cafe, "Nice Day Cafe", where Mike's girlfriend Anne (Susan Earl) works with Julie (Ella Kenion). The series revolves around the store staff as they engage in a daily wisecrack battle with packs of DIY obsessed clients.v (en.wikipedia.org)
Ali G unwittingly becomes a pawn in the evil Chancellor's plot to overthrow the Prime Minister of Great Britain... (imdb)
The Office (2001) - TV Series
The story of an office that faces closure when the company decides to downsize its branches. A documentary film crew follow staff and the manager Brent as they continue their daily lives. (imdb)
Bruiser (2000) - TV Series
Bruiser is a TV comedy sketch show that was produced for BBC Two. 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.
The Girl is Mime (2000) - Short Film
Did the mime commit the crime? Clive Buckle is being questioned about the murder of his wife. Interrogation brings back a slew of memories, some good, some bad...some sexy. (imdb)
A wryly-perceptive drama about growing up - when you're not even sure that's what you want to do. It is a contemporary story about young adults and their relationships, on life, love and other four-letter words. (The Shooting Gallery)
Lock, Stock... (2000) - TV Series
A man has a lot of money to spend and decides to spend it on a strip club. (imdb.com) A seven-part TV series that is a spin-off from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
I Just Want to Kiss You (1998) - Short Film
A twenty-something man is having a shave while his best friend hands around the house. The man is a bit of a clown and enjoys joking around and not taking anything too seriously. With some money in their pocket, the two go out to the cinema and then for a quick drink. They meet a couple of girls in the pub and both men hit it off reasonably well with them until, that is, the man's rather worse for wear father joins them. (imdb)