Freema Agyeman (/?fri?m? ????j?m?n/; born Frema Agyeman on 20 March 1979) is an English actress who is known for playing Martha Jones in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who and its spin-off series Torchwood. Following her departure from Doctor Who and guest spots in BBC programmes Survivors and Little Dorrit, Agyeman held a starring role as Alesha Phillips in the crime procedural drama Law & Order: UK between 2009 and 2012. In 2013, she made her US television debut on The CW's teen drama The Carrie Diaries as Larissa Loughlin, a style editor at Interview magazine.
Middlesex University, Radford University, Our Lady's Convent Roman Catholic High School
Nationality
British
Parents
Osei Agyeman, Azar Agyeman
Siblings
Dominic Agyeman, Leila Agyeman
Awards
Glamour Award for Nokia Newcomer
Nominations
National Television Award for Most Popular Actress
Movies
North v South
TV Shows
The Carrie Diaries, Survivors, Little Dorrit, Mile High, Doctor Who, Sense8, Law & Order: UK, Crossroads, Crossroads (2003)
Star Sign
Pisces
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Quote
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[on the growing popularity of Doctor Who in America] I can't believe how it has just exploded over here. When I was doing the show, we didn't get to come over to America and do any of the promotion. The new lot [of Doctor Who actors] did, but my agent said, 'Don't worry, whatever happens with them, it kind of ripples outwards and the whole family reaps the benefit of that', so it's been great for my career.
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Fact
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Filming "Little Dorrit", at Deal Castle in Kent, England, UK. [May 2008]
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Ranked #16 on Wizard magazine's 'Sexiest Women on TV' list (March 2008).
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Graduated in 2000 with BA Honours in Performing Arts and Drama from Middlesex University. Also took theatre courses at Radford University in Virginia, USA in 1998.
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Her secondary school was Our Lady's Convent in Amhurst Park, Stamford Hill and she attended the Anna Scher Theatre School in Islington during the summer of 1996.
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Childhood hobbies were martial arts, gymnastics and horse riding.
Brought up in North London, UK, by her Iranian mother and Ghanaian father on the Woodberry Down estate in Manor House with her older sister, Leila, and younger brother, Dominic. Her mother, Azar, and her father, Osei, separated when she was a child.
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In July 2006, she appeared in an episode of the new "Doctor Who" series, and the producers were so impressed with her performance that they offered her the role of Martha Jones on the show's upcoming third season, debuting on the 31st March 2007.
$900,000
