Martha Louise Hudson (née Sissons) is a major character in the BBC crime drama Sherlock. She is the landlady of 221B and 221C Baker Street and an ally to Sherlock Holmes and John Watson.
She is portrayed by the late Una Stubbs.
Biography
Hudson had known Sherlock for a while, and he got into her good graces by securing the conviction and execution of her drug lord husband in Florida. In 2010 she rented Sherlock and his new friend John Watson 221B Baker Street to live in.
She ends up being involved in a case when CIA agents hold her hostage at her flat and torture her over information pertaining to a phone belonging to Irene Adler. This causes Sherlock to take the lead operative Neilson and throwing him out of the window multiple times as retribution for hurting Hudson.
Hudson ended up being one of three people that Sherlock's archenemy Jim Moriarty threatened to have killed if he didn't commit suicide. After Moriarty's death, Sherlock faked his suicide to ensure their safety. He spent two years dismantling Moriarty's criminal organisation. During this period Watson had little contact with Hudson, which hurt her. In 2014 Sherlock returned to London, much to Hudson's shock. He returned to Baker Street.
Hudson is in attendance at Watson's wedding to Mary Morstan.
Trivia
- She is based on Mrs Hudson from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Canon. Her lack of proper role in the original stories was made reference to in the Sherlock special "The Abominable Bride", which seemingly took place in the original timeframe of the original Holmes canon.
- In the Unaired Pilot she owned a café shop named Mrs Hudson's Snax n' Sarnies'.
- The blackmailer Charles Augustus Magnussen had a file on Mrs Hudson, revealing her full name as Martha Louise Hudson, and that she is a semi-reformed alcoholic and her former occupation was an exotic dancer. He also listed her pressure point as being marijuana.
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