Actor Martin Freeman is set to play Richard III in his first ever Shakespearean role this coming summer.
The 42-year-old actor will play the Machiavellian King from July until September at Trafalgar Studios in Whitehall, the Daily Mirror online.
The play's director, Jamie Lloyd, is currently casting for other roles in Richard III.
This will be the first play in the second season of Trafalgar Transformed at the theatre, which had a successful run last year with the productions, 'Macbeth', 'The Pride', and the Harold Pinter play 'The Hothouse'.
Freeman last appeared in a stag production in 2010 at the Royal Court when performing in the Bruce Norris play Clybourne Park.
Freeman rose to fame when appearing in Ricky Gervais's mockumentary 'The Office' as disgruntled paper merchant worker Tim Canterbury, before landing a notable role in the rom-com favourite 'Love, Actually.'
He has most recently appeared in Peter Jackson's 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' and will reprise his role for the third instalment 'There And Back Again.
