A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Balham, London, England
Born:
June 17, 1975
Freddie Annobil-Dodoo is a British actor who won the Barclays Theatre Awards (TMA) for "Best Actor in a Supporting Role" in 2001. Born to Ghanaian parents in South London's Clapham, he grew up in East London's Isle of Dogs. At the age of 14, after watching Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop, Freddie developed a passion for acting. His talent was quickly recognized by his drama and English teachers, who arranged for him to attend the Sylvia Young Theatre School part-time for a year. Freddie later enrolled at Seltec College (now Lewisham College) to study drama (A level foundation) for two years. There, he immersed himself in the works of Stanislavski, Brecht, and Shakespeare, particularly connecting with Stanislavski's 'Method' acting technique. Despite successful auditions at several top drama schools in the UK, financial barriers prevented him from continuing his formal training. At 21, Freddie signed with his first exclusive acting agent and secured his first professional role in a three-hander production with The Black Theatre Co-op. The play, Just For Kicks, was a Theatre In Education (TIE) production about drug awareness, which toured schools across London. His career soon transitioned to television, with a significant role in the BAFTA-winning BBC2 drama serial Holding On (1998), which explored life in London. Since then, Freddie has built an extensive portfolio across television, film, radio, and theatre. He continues to work actively in the acting industry, taking on various indie-film and television roles.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.