Martin Freeman

Martin Freeman's biography

Martin Freeman is 51 years old actor born at Aldershot. He was born on Wednesday 8th of September 1971. According to year of birth 1971 he belongs to Generation X. Birthday on 8th of September means he is Virgo. Virgo is an earthy sign of Zodiac Belt. People born under this Rising Sign are practical in nature. They believe in reality and represents themselves as a strong person.

He is citizen of United Kingdom. His primary profession is to be actor. You can know him also as television actor, film actor, voice actor. He is recently known as stage actor. He received MTV Movie Award for Best Hero The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in 2013

Martin Freeman's schools

We found 4 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Central School of Speech and Drama, Salesian School, Chertsey, Cardinal Newman High School, Brooklands College.

Detailed informations about his schools

• Attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England.
• Attended Salesian School, a Catholic secondary school in Chertsey, Surrey.

Martin Freeman's career

His main focus is to be actor. You could see him also in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Sherlock.

Martin Freeman's partner

Amanda Abbington

Martin Freeman and Amanda Abbington have been together since 2000 for 16 years. She is known as actor. His partner was born on Thursday 28th of February 1974 in London.

Awards and competitions

Martin Freeman's Awards

• He received award for MTV Movie Award for Best Hero for work The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in 2013
• He received award for British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for work Sherlock in 2011
• He received award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for work Sherlock in 2014

Martin Freeman's Nominations

• He was nominated for British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for work Sherlock in 2011
• He was nominated for British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for work Sherlock in 2012
• He was nominated for Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast for work Love Actually in 2004
• He was nominated for MTV Movie Award for Best Scared-As-S**t Performance for work The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in 2013
• He was nominated for British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance for work The Office in 2004
• He was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for work Sherlock in 2012
• He was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for work Sherlock in 2014
• He was nominated for MTV Movie Award for Best Hero for work The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug in 2014
• He was nominated for MTV Movie Award for Best Hero for work The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in 2013
• He was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for work Fargo in 2014

What Martin Freeman has done for a first time

• The first single he bought was "Ghost Town" by The Specials.

Martin Freeman's quotes

• Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
• God, no. I don't do any of that shit [partying with celebrities]. I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow (1997).
• 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.
• 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.
• My mum was Labour-voting, but wanted us to know we were important. Basically, everyone's equal, but you, my children, are a bit better.
• Once you've switched that switch [commitment], then, though you notice that other people are great, you're just not interested.
• Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.
• I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.
• I did a play once where a reviewer said, Martin Freeman is too nice to play a bad guy.' And I thought: 'Well, bad guys aren't always bad guys, you know?' When I see someone play the obvious villain, I know it's false.
• I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.
• I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.
• I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half.
• I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.
• I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honor and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people.
• My idea of a good night out is staying in.
• I'm not particularly affable in real life, I have to tell you. I've got that side to me, of course, but that's not all I am.
• I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.
• To my mind there are not enough things that show the Nazis as human, as smart people, charismatic people, who are not inhuman naturally. But who are able to be fantastically inhuman when they choose to be.
• I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but nothing winds me up more than people saying, 'Chill out' to me when I'm irritated!
• People misunderstand me.
• There are lots of things that keep me awake at night, but work isn't one of them. I mean, no-one's going to die if someone doesn't like what I do. So I don't feel a great pressure.
• I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.
• Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.
• I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses.
• I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other.
• I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.
• Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Al Pacino made me want to act. I've always been interested in men with a vulnerable side.
• Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
• I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.
• I don't want to be poor, of course. But I try not to make that the guiding force behind whether I choose to do something or not.
• Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.
• I like the quiet life sometimes. I also love a bustling press conference sometimes as well. I love a 600 meter red carpet.
• Sherlock (2010) is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.
• Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.
• In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.
• I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerized rather than mechanized.
• Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.
• I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.
• What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
• I've got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much.
• Humor is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life.
• I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.
• I'm geek royalty now.
• Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.
• I love home. I'd rather be at home than anywhere else.
• I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.
• I don't write anything off without reading a script, and if it's a good one, I'll consider it, whether it's for $20 or a million dollars.
• I love eating. I mean, I really, really love eating.
• I think the hardest part about anything you do for 18 months is just keeping yourself together for 18 months.
• I think the only directing I'd be any good at is theatre directing. It's the only thing I can see myself doing.
• I'm afraid I don't have a very pragmatic or unromantic view of props. I don't imbue them with any great sense of mystery or anything.
• I wanted to be an actor because I saw Dog Day Afternoon (1975) you know what I mean?
• I'm always interested with other actors in what their process is, and are they still interested in acting, as opposed to being a star.
• I think the world needs to see more of my face.
• When I wear jeans I want to look like a man, not a child.
• If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.
• Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.
• When people bully us, we are complicit in it in some way. We do allow it to happen to some extent.
• I've always been attracted to darkness.
• With superheroes and comics and fantasy and Sci-Fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, it's like people have said in endless magazines, it's the revenge of the geeks and all that. There's some truth in that.
• I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.
• I never liked smoking. I like swearing. I think swearing serves a purpose.
• I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.
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Martin Freeman's body shape

Lets describe how Martin Freeman looks. We will focus on his body shape. Body build is average.