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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 dram... more

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).

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
(2012)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.
Runtime:
169 min
Director:
Peter Jackson
Cast:
Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Andy Serkis, Cate Blanchett
7.9
64%
58
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Shaun of the Dead
(2004)
Comedy, Horror
Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Edgar Wright
Cast:
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran
7.9
92%
76
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
(2013)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the Dragon, Smaug.
Runtime:
161 min
Director:
Peter Jackson
Cast:
Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Ken Stott, Graham McTavish
7.9
75%
66
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Hot Fuzz
(2007)
Action, Comedy, Crime
As a former London constable, Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a partner. However, when a series of grisly accidents rocks Sandford, Angel smells something rotten in the...
Runtime:
121 min
Director:
Edgar Wright
Cast:
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Timothy Dalton, Jim Broadbent, Paddy Considine
7.8
91%
81
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Love Actually
(2003)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
'Love Actually' follows the lives of eight very different couples dealing with their love lives, in various loosely and interrelated tales, all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.
Runtime:
135 min
Director:
Richard Curtis
Cast:
Bill Nighy, Gregor Fisher, Colin Firth, Sienna Guillory, Liam Neeson
7.6
64%
55
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
(2014)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Immediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elve...
Runtime:
144 min
Director:
Peter Jackson
Cast:
Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Aidan Turner, Orlando Bloom
7.4
59%
59
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Black Panther
(2018)
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle...
Runtime:
134 min
Cast:
Chadwick Boseman, Chadwick Boseman, Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Michael B. Jordan
7.3
97%
88
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The World's End
(2013)
Action, Comedy, Science Fiction
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.
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
Edgar Wright
Cast:
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Paddy Considine
7.0
89%
81
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
(2005)
Adventure, Comedy, Family, Science Fiction
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
Garth Jennings
Cast:
Martin Freeman, Zooey Deschanel, Sam Rockwell, Yasiin Bey, John Malkovich
6.7
60%
63
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Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
(2016)
Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this holiday special.
Runtime:
90 min
Cast:
Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves, Mark Gatiss
8.2
N/A
N/A
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Sherlock - Study in Pink
(2010)
A war hero, invalided home from Afghanistan, meets a strange but charismatic genius who is looking for a flatmate; it is London, 2010, and Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes are meeting for the first time. A string of impossible suicides has Scotland Yard baffled - and only one man can help.
Runtime:
90 min
9.1
N/A
N/A
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Sherlock: The Final Problem
(2017)
Drama, Mystery
Long buried secrets finally come to light as someone has been playing a very long game indeed. Sherlock and John face their greatest ever challenge. Is the game finally over?
Runtime:
90 min
Cast:
Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Mark Gatiss, Sian Brooke, Andrew Scott
8.3
N/A
N/A
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Ali G Indahouse
(2002)
Comedy
Ali G unwittingly becomes a pawn in the evil Chancellor's plot to overthrow the Prime Minister of Great Britain. However, instead of bringing the Prime Minister down, Ali is embraced by the nation as the voice of youth and 'realness', making the Prime Minister and his government more popular than ever.
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Mark Mylod
Cast:
Sacha Baron Cohen, Sacha Baron Cohen, Michael Gambon, Charles Dance, Kellie Bright
6.3
56%
46
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
(2012)
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
The luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain is a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side, and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz to the much coveted Pirate o...
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt
Cast:
Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson, Jeremy Piven, Brian Blessed, Salma Hayek
6.7
86%
N/A
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Wild Target
(2010)
Action, Comedy
Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims. After sparing her life, he unexpectedly acquires a young apprentice. Believing Victo...
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Jonathan Lynn
Cast:
Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint, Rupert Everett, Eileen Atkins
6.9
33%
41
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Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
(2016)
Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson investigate a mysterious ghostly bride. We've been here before - but what if this wasn't the modern day but the late Victorian period? What if the world's most famous consulting detective and his best friend lived in a Baker Street of steam trains, hansom cabs, top hats and frock coats? Welcome to She...
Runtime:
90 min
8.5
N/A
N/A
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What's Your Number?
(2011)
Comedy, Romance
Ally Darling is realizing she's a little lost in life. Her latest romance has just fizzled out, and she's just been fired from her marketing job. Then she reads an eye-opening magazine article that warns that 96 percent of women who've been with 20 or more lovers are unlikely to find a husband. Determined to turn her life around and pr...
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Mark Mylod
Cast:
Chris Evans, Anna Faris, Martin Freeman, Chris Pratt, Ari Graynor
6.1
23%
35
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Breaking and Entering
(2006)
Drama, Romance
Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman – the mother of a troubled teen son – who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Runtime:
129 min
Director:
Anthony Minghella
Cast:
Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Vera Farmiga, Robin Wright, Martin Freeman
6.5
34%
56
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Cargo
(2017)
Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
After being infected in the wake of a violent pandemic and with only 48 hours to live, a father struggles to find a new home for his baby daughter.
Runtime:
105 min
Cast:
Martin Freeman, Anthony Hayes, Susie Porter, Caren Pistorius
6.3
N/A
65
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Dedication
(2007)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A modern love story in which a misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children's book is forced to team with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend and collaborator passes away. As Henry struggles with letting go of the ghosts of love and life, he discovers that sometimes you have to take a gamble at life to find love.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Justin Theroux
Cast:
Tom Wilkinson, Billy Crudup, Mandy Moore, Bob Balaban, Dianne Wiest
6.7
40%
50
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The Good Night
(2007)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his dreams, and tries to control his dream-state so he can spend more and more time with her. When Gary sees his mystery woman's face on a bus billboard, he discovers she is real, and fate b...
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Jake Paltrow
Cast:
Penélope Cruz, Martin Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Simon Pegg, Danny DeVito
5.8
31%
49
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Nativity!
(2009)
Comedy, Family
Martin Freeman is lovelorn teacher Mr Maddens, a former am-dram star whose girlfriend (Ashley Jensen) dumped him over Christmas five years ago and upped sticks, inexplicably, to La-La Land. Yuletide cheer is not his forte, but he's forced to drum some up when Pam Ferris's headmistress earmarks him to direct the Nativity play.
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Debbie Isitt
Cast:
Martin Freeman, Ashley Jensen, Ricky Tomlinson, Pam Ferris, John Sessions
6.5
48%
N/A
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Nightwatching
(2007)
Drama, History
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
Runtime:
135 min
Director:
Peter Greenaway
Cast:
Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Michael Teigen, Christopher Britton, Jodhi May
6.5
74%
N/A
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Confetti
(2006)
Comedy, Romance
A mockumentary that follows three couples as they battle it out to win the coveted title of 'Most Original Wedding of the Year'.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Debbie Isitt
Cast:
Martin Freeman, Jessica Hynes, Olivia Colman, Stephen Mangan, Robert Webb
5.7
57%
57
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The Eichmann Show
(2015)
Drama, History, TV Movie
The behind-the-scenes true life story of a groundbreaking producer, Milton Fruchtman, and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz who, overcoming enormous obstacles, set out to capture the testimony of one of the war's most notorious Nazis, Adolf Eichmann, who is accused of executing the 'final solution' and organising the murder of 6 mill...
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Paul Andrew Williams
Cast:
Anthony LaPaglia, Martin Freeman, Rebecca Front, Andy Nyman, Nicholas Woodeson
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Charles II: The Power & the Passion
(2003)
Drama, History, Romance
The chronicle of Charles II's time on the throne, his 10 year exile from Oliver Cromwell's England, and his triumphant return.
Runtime:
235 min
Director:
Joe Wright
Cast:
Rufus Sewell, Rupert Graves, Charlie Creed-Miles, Christian Coulson, Shirley Henderson
7.6
N/A
N/A
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Saving Santa
(2013)
Animation, Comedy, Family
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.
Runtime:
83 min
Director:
Leon Joosen, Aaron Seelman
Cast:
Martin Freeman, Tim Curry, Tim Conway, Pam Ferris, Ashley Tisdale
6.2
20%
N/A
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Carnage: Swallowing the Past
(2017)
Comedy, Science Fiction
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
Runtime:
65 min
Cast:
Simon Amstell, Linda Bassett, Martin Freeman, Eileen Atkins, Joanna Lumley
7.8
N/A
N/A
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Stick Man
(2015)
Animation, Family
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?
Runtime:
27 min
Director:
Jeroen Jaspaert
Cast:
Martin Freeman, Hugh Bonneville, Jennifer Saunders, Sally Hawkins, Rob Brydon
7.1
N/A
N/A
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The Voorman Problem
(2013)
Comedy, Drama
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? Diagnose him insane and they can ship him off to the asylum. But before making a decision, the Doctor has several questions in...
Runtime:
13 min
Director:
Mark Gill
Cast:
Martin Freeman, Tom Hollander, Simon Griffiths, Elisabeth Gray
7.3
N/A
N/A
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Funny Cow
(2018)
Comedy, Drama
A woman who has a funny bone for a backbone, Funny Cow charts the rise of a female stand-up comic who delivers tragedy and comedy in equal measure in the sometimes violent and always macho clubs of Northern England in the '70s.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Adrian Shergold
Cast:
Maxine Peake, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Alun Armstrong, Stephen Graham
6.5
77%
N/A
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Micro Men
(2009)
Drama
In 1979 Clive Sinclair, British inventor of the pocket calculator, frustrated by the lack of home investment in his project,the electric car, also opposes former assistant Chris Curry's belief that he can successfully market a micro-chip for a home computer. A parting of the ways sees Curry, in partnership with the Austrian Hermann Hau...
Runtime:
84 min
Director:
Saul Metzstein
Cast:
Alexander Armstrong, Martin Freeman, Edward Baker-Duly, Sam Phillips
7.6
N/A
N/A
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Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
(2008)
Documentary, Mystery
J'accuse is an 'essay-istic' documentary in which Greenaway's fierce criticism of today's visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt's Nightwatch. Greenaway explains the background, the context, the conspiracy, the murder and the motives of all its 34 painted characters who have conspired to kill for their c...
Runtime:
86 min
Director:
Peter Greenaway
Cast:
Martin Freeman, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May, Emily Holmes
7.2
100%
76
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Pride
(2004)
Adventure, Drama, Family
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.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
John Downer
Cast:
Kate Winslet, Kate Winslet, Sean Bean, Helen Mirren, Sean Bean
6.4
N/A
N/A
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Animals
(2012)
Drama, Fantasy
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...
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Marçal Forés
Cast:
Martin Freeman, Augustus Prew, Dimitri Leonidas, Javier Beltrán, Alba Ribas
6.2
N/A
N/A
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Svengali
(2013)
Comedy
Svengali tells the story of Dixie, 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 magn...
Runtime:
90 min
5.7
27%
N/A
The Girl Is Mime
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The Girl Is Mime
(2009)
DID THE MIME COMMIT THE CRIME? CLIVE BUCKLE IS BEING QUESTIONED ABOUT THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE. THE POLICE ARE CONVINCED HE DID IT—IF THEY COULD JUST FIND THE WEAPON.
Runtime:
7 min
Director:
Timm Bunn
Cast:
Martin Freeman
7.2
N/A
N/A
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Swinging with the Finkels
(2011)
Comedy, Romance
A suburban couple decide to spice up their lives by swinging with another couple.
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Jonathan Newman
Cast:
Mandy Moore, Martin Freeman, Melissa George, Jonathan Silverman, Elizabeth Tan
4.6
N/A
N/A
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A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
(2015)
Animation, Documentary
Julie Walters tells the story of how Morph, Shaun the Sheep and that cheese-loving man Wallace and his dog Gromit first came to life.
Runtime:
59 min
Director:
Richard Mears
Cast:
Martin Freeman, David Tennant, Julie Walters, Hugh Grant, Bill Nighy
7.6
N/A
N/A
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The All Together
(2007)
Comedy
No overview found.
Runtime:
84 min
Director:
Gavin Claxton
Cast:
Martin Freeman, Danny Dyer, Velibor Topic, Corey Johnson, Richard Harrington
4.8
N/A
N/A