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Martin Freeman

May 2024

  • Martin Freeman in The Responder

    The week in TV: The Responder; Spacey Unmasked; Doctor Who; Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly – review

  • Superb … Adelayo Adedayo as Rachel and Martin Freeman as Chris.

    TV review
    The Responder series two review – another total TV triumph

April 2024

  • Zoë Wanamaker, the school’s vice-president

    London’s Central drama school axes audition fees to end elite grip on the arts

    The institution hopes to ‘shift the dial’ and encourage a more diverse range of students to apply

October 2023

  • ‘Carrying this comedy along' … Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard in Breeders

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: frosty festivities for the Worsley family as Breeders returns

    Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard endure an unhappy Christmas. Plus: Ghosts continues its inspired ramble towards the pearly gates. Here’s what to watch this evening

December 2022

  • Uniquely, excellently British … Martin Freeman in The Responder.

    2022 in TV
    The 50 best TV shows of 2022: No 5 – The Responder

    Martin Freeman was superb as a bent Merseyside copper in this propulsive, state-of-the-nation drama. Gritty, fascinating, challenging, it was a masterwork of ethical conundrums

November 2022

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    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever review – grief shadows superhero sequel

    Shaped around the loss of its original hero Chadwick Boseman, this take pays tribute to the late actor with fiery performances and great spectacle

August 2022

  • Daisy Haggard and Martin Freeman as Ally and Paul in Breeders.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: a complicated end to Martin Freeman’s family comedy-drama

    Ally (Haggard) and Paul (Freeman) have a dramatic argument in Breeders. Plus: will four months of simulated parenting change a woman’s view of motherhood? Here’s what to watch this evening

July 2022

  • Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard in Breeders

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Breeders; Night Coppers; The Terminal List; Sneakerhead; Big Zuu’s Big Eats

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    This much I know
    Martin Freeman: ‘I’m one of few people in my family who would ever unironically go into a church’

May 2022

  • ‘None of this has felt insurmountable’ … Amanda Abbington.

    ‘None of it has felt insurmountable’: Amanda Abbington on Sherlock, separation and her fiancé’s nightmare fall

  • ‘Gorgeous skin is my business’ … Angelyne on Hollywood Boulevard in the 1990s.

    ‘Gorgeous is my business’ … how blond billboard bombshell Angelyne became an LA icon

January 2022

  • Martin Freeman, with Adelayo Adedayo, in The Responder.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Responder; Trigger Point; The Gilded Age; Survivors: Portraits of the Holocaust

    As a Liverpool copper in meltdown, Martin Freeman excels in Tony Schumacher’s unmissable drama; the clock’s ticking for ITV’s new bomb disposal series; and Downton Abbey, New York-style
  • Martin Freeman as PC Chris Carson in The Responder

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Martin Freeman is at the end of his tether in The Responder

    The actor adopts a scouse accent for his gritty portrayal of an officer in crisis. Plus, it’s tough times in Keeping Up With the Aristocrats. Here’s what to watch this evening
  • Martin Freeman in The Responder.

    ‘Something is about to go off’ – Martin Freeman on playing an explosively dodgy cop

    The Hollywood star is playing a Liverpudlian officer on night patrol in The Responder, pinching cigarettes off corpses and eating their unfinished meals. How true to life is this? And how’s his Scouse accent?

May 2021

  • Martin Freeman with (clockwise from bottom) Public Enemy, the Jam, Michael Caine

    Teenage kicks
    Martin Freeman’s teenage obsessions: ‘I still think that rude-boy skinhead look is hard to beat’

  • Perfect parenting ... Ally and Paul, played by Daisy Haggard and Martin Freeman.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard are still chaotic parents

December 2020

  • JRR Tolkien’s home on Northmoor Road, Oxford.

    Questions raised over charity seeking to buy JRR Tolkien's Oxford house

  • JRR Tolkien’s home of 17 years on Northmoor Road, Oxford.

    Campaign to buy JRR Tolkien's house backed by Lord of the Rings actors

November 2020

  • Susan Wokoma, Michaela Coel and Jahvel Hall in Three Birds by Janice Okoh

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    Before they were famous: stars' early stage appearances – in pictures

    Tristram Kenton captures the debuts and breakthroughs of famous future faces including Emily Blunt, Martin Freeman, John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker and many more

April 2020

  • Jodie Comer

    Jodie Comer to star in new BBC production of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

    The series has already begun filming at Elstree, following distancing guidelines, and will feature 10 of the original monologues as well as two new ones written by Bennett
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