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Brent | Tim | Gareth | Dawn | Finchy | Jennifer | The Oggmonster | Neil
Tim Canterbury: Martin Freeman
About Tim:
Sales Rep, promoted at end of series 1 to Senior Sales Rep.
Of all the main characters, Tim is the one most dissatisfied with his life. He knows he can achieve more than just speaking to clients on the phone about quantity and type of paper. Throughout the first series we see Tim considering leaving, announcing he’s leaving, putting off leaving while he sorts out doing a psychology degree and then staying on because he was promoted to senior sales clerk for an extra £500 a year. The end of series one sees him talk like David Brent, and it is yet to be seen whether his character has changed or whether he was just a bit drunk that evening. In summary: A nice bloke, the character most of the audience associates with.
Oh, and he fancies Dawn, but they didn’t meet until after she was going out with Lee.
About Martin:
In 1997 Martin became one of about 20 regular performer’s in BBC2’s Comedy Nation. This was an odd series, with a large number of comedians all writing sketches, and with no continuity between them at all. Martin was merely an actor, and has never written his own material. He once said: “I’m just an actor who does whatever he's told. In the last couple of years I've done more comedy but that wasn’t the original plan. I don’t have a background in comedy.”
Martin is a fan of Stan Laurel (and Oliver Hardy may have had some influence on his many looks of desperation to camera, maybe).
Comedy Nation did help his career though, as he’s been getting steady work since then. In 1998 he appeared in ‘I just want to kiss you’, a short film by Jamie Thraves that won Best British Short at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. In 1999 he filmed Bruiser, another not very well known late night BBC2 comedy show and 2000 bought him the part of Jaap, a Dutch drug addict layabout in the Lock Stock... Channel 4 spin off series. He also played a Doctor in the very first episode of Black Books, before teaming up with Jamie Thraves again to make the Low Down.
In 2001 he appeared as a few different characters throughout the series World of Pub. This was adapted from a Radio 4 show of the same name and starred Phil Cornwell, Kevin Eldon and Peter Serafinowicz. There’s more than enough info about it if you follow that link.
Since filming the first series of The Office, Martin has made Ali G in da House. He plays a character called Ricky C.
Why not visit Martin Freeman’s official brother-run website at the imaginative martinfreeman.com. You’ll find some more info about Martin there, including some stuff deliberately not mentioned here due to laziness on my part. But it’s still one hell of a funky site.
Martin Freeman has never worked in an office.
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