Anna Maxwell Martin

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.

This take was written by generative AI, one per person, from publicly reported facts (editorial policy). It is a reading of the record, not reporting.

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)

Origin

Beverley, United Kingdom

Occupation

actor / stage actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Snake

High school

Beverley High School

University

University of Liverpool

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/annamaxwellmartin/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Maxwell%20Martin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q276182

Tags

• actor
• stage actor
• film actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.