Martin Freeman Biography

Fast Facts

• Dreamed of becoming a squash player and was a member of the British national squash squad as a youth
• Is the youngest of five children; his father died when he was just 7 years old
• Although probably best known for playing Tim Canterbury on the U
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• version of The Office (2001), he has proven himself equally capable of serious drama in the BBC's Charles II: The Power & the Passion (2003)
• Spent two-and-a-half years filming his role as Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's trilogy adaptation of The Hobbit