Martin Freeman boosted his UK business fortune by £400,000 last year taking the value of his companies to £6 million for the first time.
Assets for GeoffreyJoseph Limited, controlled by the actor, 50, who shot to fame playing Tim Canterbury alongside Ricky Gervais in The Office, went up to £4.5 million.
On top of this he has a second company Rita Maris Limited worth £1.5 million, according to accounts filed this week.
Impressive: Martin Freeman boosted his UK business fortune by £400,000 last year taking the value of his companies to £6 million for the first time (pictured last month)
Figures for Geoffrey Joseph Limited, which was set up by Freeman in 2008, show it had to pay a £68,000 corporation tax bill because profits were so high.
This week’s documents do not include any salary or dividend payments that the star received from the company.
Freeman has become one of the the UK’s most successful actors equally at home in an ITV true crime drama like A Confession or playing Bilbo Baggins in a Hollywood blockbuster like Lord of the Rings.
Starring role: Assets for GeoffreyJoseph Limited, controlled by the actor, 50, who is starring in BBC drama The Responder (pictured), went up to £4.5 million
His overall fortune from his Hollywood career is said to be £15 million.
Recently, the actor was spotted walking in Hampstead alongside Rachel Mariam (29),
According to reports, the couple began a relationship in 2020 after he split with Amanda Abbington. This was four years after he divorced from Amanda, a Sherlock star who starred alongside him on Sherlock. Grace and Joe are his children.
The couple went public with their romance last year, when they graced the red carpet at the Raindance Film Festival Opening Night gala screening of Best Sellers at The Dorchester in October just months after Amanda discussed their split.
Hallo! Recently, the actor was spotted walking in Hampstead alongside Rachel Mariam (pictured October).
Martin divorced Amanda Abbington, his fellow Sherlock star, in 2016. He has two children, Joe (16 and Grace 13). (Martin and Amanda, 2014)
In April, she spoke about how the split could affect their children. She said: “It’s unsettling if it seems like I’m the Stepford Wife parent…
‘Nobody is. Martin and I have done irreparable injury to them and I know they will seek therapy. That’s what I am striving for and what Martin strives for as well — to create a place where they’re not hiding anything.’
Martin recently played the role of a Liverpudlian officer responding to mental health problems. This prompted a backlash against TV’s use of regional accents.
Martin is the Responder. Chris is an urgent responder officer in Liverpudlian who has to deal with marital and mental problems.
Lord Alan Sugar, an Apprentice actor, was critical of his accent. He claimed that he could not understand the BBC thriller and struggled to comprehend a word.
His words were: “Hard for me to understand what he and the other cast are saying. Liverpoolians are very down-to-earth people, and I don’t mean any disrespect. My wife stopped watching as she claimed she couldn’t comprehend a single word.
A Twitter user called him “the most wealthy billionaire in the universe”, while others worried that his comments might hinder efforts to obtain big television dramas from outside London.
Backlash: Martin’s new role as a Liverpudlian officer responding to mental health problems recently caused backlash about regional accents in TV.
Martin claimed that he spent hours learning the accent and spoke to himself for about a year.
According to him, the BBC’s Front Row radio program was ‘the idea of going up amongst a bunch of Scousers cast and crew and balling it up, was quite sobering. So I decided that it would be my goal to get it absolutely right.
“And I always stated that if I wasn’t 100% sure I could do it, then I wouldn’t do the accent. If the accent was like 80% or something.
“And I wanted desperately to play that part. In a pleasant way you were aware that I was not from these parts. I didn’t feel that way.
“But I thought that it was important to not think you have this. To keep it in check, work hard, hone it and do it consistently.
Oh dear! Apprentice star Lord Alan Sugar criticized his poor accent and claimed that he couldn’t understand one word in the BBC thriller.
Ouch: He wrote: ‘Hard to follow what he and other cast are saying. Liverpoolians, while they may not be the most prestigious of people, are down-to earth and friendly. My wife quit watching.