Martin Freeman is an English actor. Among other accolades, he has won an Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, with nominations for a further two Emmy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, a Saturn Award, and 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 such as 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), and as Everett K. Ross in the Marvel superhero films Captain America: Civil War (2016) and Black Panther (2018).
Freeman has supplemented his acting income with a number of brand endorsement deals. He has been the face of Vodafone for a number of years, and has appeared in various commercials for the mobile phone company.
