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Awards British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAS) 2006 Best Actress for Bleak House  2009 Best Actress for role of N in Poppy Shakespeare Nominations Laurence Oliver Award 2004 for His Dark Materials Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2006 Best Actress for Bleak House  Royal Television Society Programme Award 2009 Best Actor (Female) Poppy Shakespeare Others BBC Drama Poll 2005 3rd place in Best Actress category

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(commenting on her face) "I get described as 'interesting' a lot. People often call me odd, too. Maybe they mean ugly. Given the services of a plastic surgeon, I would get a pair of cheekbones" ( talking about the character N) “I think she is closer to me than anyone I have ever played. I really loved it, I loved how odd she was and dark and malevolent at the same time.

Early life Martin was born in Beverley, near Hull, England in May 1978 and attended Beverley High school where she appeared in school plays. She adopted the middle name Maxwell (her grandfather's name) to distinguish her from another member with the same name when she joined Equity. Her father was the managing director of a pharmaceutical company and her mother was a research scientist. Her mother gave up her job to bring up Anna and her elder brother Adam. After she left school Martin studied history at Liverpool University, specialising in the First World War. She joined the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) after completing her studies at Liverpool. In her final year at LAMDA her father was diagnosed with cancer, although he lived long enough to see her stage performance as Alexandra in The Little Foxes at the Donmar Warehouse. Martin is in a relationship with the director Roger Michell. Career Martin first came to prominence on the London West End stage playing ...

Television Midsomer Murders as Arabella Heywood in "Murder on St Malley's Day" (ITV1, 22 September 2002) North and South as Bessie Higgins (BBC One, 2004) Doctor Who as Suki Macrae Cantrell in "The Long Game" (BBC One, 7 May 2005) Bleak House as Esther Summerson (BBC One, 27 October to 16 December 2005) The British Academy Television Awards as herself (ITV1, 8 May 2006) and subsequent interview (ITV2, 8 May 2006) BBC Breakfast as herself (interview) (BBC One, 17 October 2006) The Wind in the Willows as the gaoler's daughter (BBC One, 1 January 2007) White Girl as Debbie (BBC Two, 10 March 2008) Poppy Shakespeare as N (Channel 4, 31 March 2008) Moonshot as Janet Armstrong (ITV, 2008/9) Freefall (BBC 2, 2009) Film The Hours (2002) Eddie Loves Mary (2002) (short film) Enduring Love as Penny (2004) The Other Man (2005) (short film) Becoming Jane as Cassandra Austen (2007) I Really Hate My Job as Madonna (2007) Radio The...

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