Martin Freeman is a multi award-winning English actor, who became known to TV-watching public with the role of Tim Canterbury in Ricky Gervais' "The Office", then as Dr. John Watson in "Sherlock", as well as Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit trilogy and Lester Nygaard in series 1 of the TV series, "Fargo".

On stage, he has appeared in Jamie Lloyd's West End adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III, plus the Jamie Lloyd productions of "Apologia" and "The Dumb Waiter" (as part of the Pinter at the Pinter season).