The Cast The Hobbit Movie. The Cast. Below are the listed CONFIRMED cast thus far for The Hobbit movies. There still remains to be many whom are rumored, however, cast members will not be added to this list unless they have been officially confirmed by the studios. Martin John C. Freeman born 8 September 1. English actor. He is best known for his roles as Tim Canterbury in the BBCs Golden Globe winning comedy The Office and as Arthur Dent in the film adaptation of Douglas Adams The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Freeman has appeared in many TV shows, as well as a variety of theatre productions. He is most known for his character of Tim Canterbury in The Office. Freeman has appeared in several films, including Sacha Baron Cohens Ali G Indahouse and Richard Curtis Love Actually. Freeman has also put his dramatic acting skills on display. His most well known dramatic role has been as Lord Shaftesbury in the 2. The season has been a mixed bag one of big spectacles, fastforwarded plot lines and questionable character choices along the way. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was Americas first featurelength animated film, as well as the. BBC historical drama Charles II The Power and The Passion. He can also be seen making a brief appearance in the first episode of the second series of This Life, helping himself to 3. Milly and Eggs bedside table before unknowingly swigging a mouthful of Eggs urine from a lager can. Freeman also starred in the BBCs television series The Robinsons. Freeman also had a cameo performance in episode 1 of Black Books. In 2. 00. 7, he had a cameo in the popular movie Hot Fuzz, a film written by Shaun of the Dead writers Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, and also made a brief appearance in Shaun of the Dead as Yvonnes boyfriend, Declan. He is in the 2. 00. The All Together written directed by Gavin Claxton. He also appeared along side Roger Lloyd Pack, Jamie Hogarth and Christopher Mellows in the 2. Bill Kenwright theatre production of The Last Laugh. Freeman plays Dr. John Watson in Sherlock, the BBC contemporary adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes detective stories. The first episode, A Study in Pink, was broadcast on 2. July 2. 01. 0 to critical acclaim. Richard Armitage born 2. August 1. 97. 1 is an English actor. At 1. 7 he joined a circus in Budapest for 6 weeks to gain his Equity Card. Armitage then returned to Britain to pursue his interest in musical theater. The Missing Mom trope as used in popular culture. A subtrope of Parental Abandonment The mother of a character or characters is missing or absent. Perhaps. There are a lot of things I miss from the old Star Wars Legends timeline. Kyle Katarn. Synthetic lightsaber crystals. Mara Jade. But what I really pine for are the. The Seventh Dwarf Theater Movie' title='The Seventh Dwarf Theater Movie' />He appeared on stage in various musicals, including Cats as Admetus and Macavity. In time, Armitage drew weary of musical theatre and returned to school to study acting, where he did so at the  London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art LAMDA. I had started on a certain road in musical theatre and I was about 2. I suddenly thought this is not quite the right path I am taking. I needed to do something a bit more truthful than musical theatre. For me it was a bit too theatrical and all about standing on stage and showing off. I was looking for something else, so thats why I went back to drama school. After graduating from LAMDA,  he returned to stage to appear as a supporting player with the Royal Shakespeare Companys productions of Macbeth and The Duchess of Malfi, as well as Hamlet and Four Alice Bakers with the Birmingham Repertory Theater while taking a series of small roles in television and films. His first major television role was in the BBC drama Sparkhouse 2. John Standring. It was the first time I went to an audition in character. It was a minor role but it was something I really got my teeth intoI couldnt go back. I knew I had to approach everything the same way. After this he took a variety supporting roles in the TV productions of Between the Sheets, Cold Feet series 5, and Ultimate Force Series 2. In 2. 00. 4, Armitage appeared in his first leading role as John Thornton, in the BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskells North and South. Armitage felt personally drawn to the role due to his northern working class family background. My fathers family were weavers and spinners. It was where I came from and it was exciting to think I could be a part of it. He also cited Thortons dualism as drawing him to the character. The dichotomy between the powerful, almost monstrous, entrepreneur and this kind of vulnerable boy is exciting for me to look at. Then in 2. Armitage took on another major role of Sir Guy of Gisborne in the BBC series Robin Hood. In order to sustain the character of Guy, you have to find the conflict within him. Hes constantly pulled between good and evil, between who he wants to be and who he actually is. He could have been a good man, but he is forever dragged down by his fatal flaw that he wants glory at all costs. In March 2. Armitage began filming for Series 8 of Spooks, which began airing in November 2. In July 2. 01. 0 he finished filming series 9, due to be broadcast in late September. On 2. May 2. 00. 9, he also appeared in the BBC1 drama Moving On as John Mulligan. In May of 2. 01. 0, he starred as John Porter in Strike Back for Sky 1. On playing John Porter Armitage stated, On paper it is pretty obvious what kind of drama Strike Back is, but the driving challenge for me and the scriptwriters and directors was to find the emotional centre of John Porter. How does a man become a trained killer and then go home and put his arms around his wife and rock his baby daughter to sleep How can a soldier not have a conscience about what he is being asked to doSky. Strike Back, due to be broadcast late in 2. Ian Murray Mc. Kellen was born on 2. May 1. 93. 9, in Burnley, England. Prior to World War II, his family moved to Wigan, a coal mining town in south Lancashire. As a child, Ian slept under the iron bomb proof table in the dining room. He had an early fascination with theatre was encouraged by Ians parents, who took him on a family outing to Peter Pan at Manchester Opera House when he was three. His sister took him to his first Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, by the amateurs of Wigans Little Theatre, shortly followed by their Macbeth and Wigan High School for Girls production of A Midsummer Nights Dream. Mckellen enjoyed acting at all his schools, most crucially for Frank Greene, the senior English master at Bolton School. Bolton School, where Mc. Kellen was a scholar, further encouraged the tyro actor at the Hopefield Miniature Theatre. While at Cambridge, Mc. Kellen was a member of the Marlowe Society, appearing in Henry IV as Shallow. His first professional appearance was in 1. Nottingham Playhouse, as Roper in A Man for All Seasons. In 1. 96. 5 he was a member of Laurence Oliviers National Theatre Company at the Old Vic, which led to rles at the Chichester Festival. In the 1. 97. 0s and 1. Mc. Kellen became a well known figure in British theatre, performing frequently at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theater where he played several leading Shakespearean rles, including the titular part in Macbeth, and Iago in Othello. In 2. 00. 7 he returned to the Royal Shakespeare Company in sell out productions of King Lear and The Seagull. In 2. 00. 9 he appeared in a very popular revival of Waiting for Godot at Londons Haymarket Theater, directed by Sean Mathias and playing opposite Patrick Stewart. Sir Ian is President and Patron of the Little Theatre Guild of Great Britain, an association of amateur theater organizations throughout the UK. Robert Kazinsky born Robert John Appleby 1. November 1. 98. 3 is an English model and actor. He is best known for his appearance as Casper Rose in Sky One drama Dream Team in 2. Sean Slater in the BBC One soap opera East. Enders from 2. 00. Kazinsky was born in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England. He was educated at Hove Park School in Hove, from 1. As a student, Kazinsky was expelled from both Hove Park School and later, his college. He appeared in their productions of Bugsy Malone and A Midsummer Nights Dream. He achieved a grade B in his drama GCSE in 2. Download Shrek 4-D Online on this page. Kazinsky was schooled as an actor at the Guildford School of Acting from September 2.