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Martin Freeman

Sep 08, 1971 (53 years old) in Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK

Martin John Christopher Freeman is an English actor. Among other accolades, he has won an Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

Freeman's most notable roles are that of Tim Canterbury in the mockumentary series The Office (2001–2003), Dr. John Watson in the British crime drama series Sherlock (2010–2017), Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014), and Lester Nygaard in the first season of the dark comedy-crime drama series Fargo (2014).

He has also appeared in films including the romantic comedy Love Actually (2003), the horror comedy Shaun of the Dead (2004), the sci-fi comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), the action comedy Hot Fuzz (2007), the semi-improvised comedy Nativity! (2009), the sci-fi comedy The World's End (2013).

For the last few years he has been playing Everett K. Ross in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films Captain America: Civil War (2016), Black Panther (2018), and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). He will reprise the role in the upcoming Disney+ series Secret Invasion (2023).

Known For

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Self
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Honest Trailers
Everett K. Ross (archive footage)
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Fargo
Narrator
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Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
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The Bill
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Sherlock
John Watson
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DuckTales
Poe De Spell (voice)
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Casualty
Ricky Beck
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Everett Ross
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Black Panther
Everett K. Ross

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