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Anna Maxwell Martin

アンナ・マックスウェル・マーティン　/　あんな・まっくすうぇる・まーてぃん

Actor from United Kingdom

May 10, 1977 (age 49)　・　Beverley, United Kingdom

actor
stage actor
film actor

My Take

Anna Maxwell Martin is the kind of actor I trust on sight. Two BAFTA television awards, for Bleak House and Poppy Shakespeare, tell you the industry agrees, but what strikes me is her range without vanity. She can carry Dickensian tragedy with a stillness that aches, then pivot to comedy and steal entire scenes as a passive-aggressive nightmare. Stage-trained, Liverpool-educated, and apparently uninterested in celebrity for its own sake, she represents the British character-actor tradition at its best: the craft is the point. I would watch her read a phone book, and I suspect she would find the subtext in it.

Overview

Anna Maxwell Martin (born Anna Charlotte Martin; 10 May 1977), sometimes credited as Anna Maxwell-Martin, is an English actress. She has won two British Academy Television Awards, for her portrayals of Esther Summerson in the BBC adaptation of Bleak House (2005), and of N in the Channel 4 adaptation of Poppy Shakespeare (2008).

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1. Profile

Name (English): Anna Maxwell Martin
Name (Japanese): アンナ・マックスウェル・マーティン
Reading: あんな・まっくすうぇる・まーてぃん
Born: May 10, 1977 (age 49)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Taurus / Snake
Origin: Beverley, United Kingdom
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
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Occupation: actor / stage actor / film actor

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Beverley High School
University: University of Liverpool

3. Relationships

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Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

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