Andrea Martin
Andrea Martin was born in Portland, Maine, United States on January 15th, 1947 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 77, Andrea Martin biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Andrea Louise Martin (born January 15, 1947) is a Canadian-American actress, singer, author and comedian, best known for her work in the television series SCTV and Great News.
She has appeared in films such as Black Christmas (1974), Wag the Dog (1997), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016), and Little Italy (2018).
She has also lent her voice to the animated films Anastasia (1997), The Rugrats Movie (1998) and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001). Martin has been equally prolific in the world of theater, winning Tony Awards for both My Favorite Year and the 2013 revival of Pippin.
Martin also appeared on Broadway in Candide, Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, Young Frankenstein, Exit the King and Act One.
She has received five nominations for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, more than any other actress in the award's history.
She received her first nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 2016 revival of Noises Off. She also starred as Carol Wendelson on the NBC sitcom Great News, and as Marilyn Kessler in the Hulu series “Difficult People”.
Early life
Andrea Martin was born in 1947 in Portland, Maine, the eldest of three children of Sybil A. (née Manoogian) and John Papazian Martin (Armenian: Ջոն Փազազյան Մարտին; 1917–2010). Her paternal grandparents were Armenian immigrants from Van, present-day Turkey who escaped the Armenian Genocide. Her maternal grandmother immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 15. Her grandfather, an amateur thespian, changed the family's name from Papazian to Martin. Her maternal grandparents, who were from Constantinople, started the Armenian School at the Chestnut Street Church. Andrea's father owned Martin's Foods, a grocery-store chain. She has mentioned that although her grandparents "did not know what assimilation was," her parents worked very hard to assimilate into the U.S. As such, Martin only started connecting with her ancestral identity later in life.
When she was 2 years old, her mother's leg had broken, so she would often read to her daughter. She and her mother would often take turns reading Shakespeare, Paul Revere's Ride, and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven. She took piano lessons when she was 8, reciting a poem about a kitten at the rotunda of the Portland Art Museum and played the piano there. Martin transferred from Nathan Clifford School to St. Joseph’s Academy before entering high school. She graduated from Deering High School in 1965, where she was a member of the Dramatic Club and won Miss Deering High 1965.
Personal life
Martin divides her time between Los Angeles and Toronto. On December 8, 2017, on The Marilyn Denis Show, Martin announced that after 47 years in Canada, she had become a Canadian citizen. She was previously married to Bob Dolman and had two sons with him, Joe and Jack. She has a grandchild via her eldest son. Through her marriage to Dolman, she was the sister-in-law of actor/comedian Martin Short, who married Dolman’s sister Nancy.
Career
Soon after graduating from Emerson College, Martin began working with You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. She moved from New York City to Toronto in 1970 and found steady work in television, film, and theater after frequent trips to Toronto.
Martin played Robin in a Toronto production of Godspell, featuring future stars Gilda Radner, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, and Victor Garber, as well as musical director Paul Shaffer. Two of her early film appearances in horror films, 1973's Cannibal Girls, for which she received the Sitges Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and in 1974 as the bookish sorority sister Phyllis in Black Christmas, a Canadian slasher.
She appeared alongside John Candy, Dave Thomas, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Harold Ramis, and Joe Flaherty on the Canadian sketch comedy television series "Second City Television" in Melonville, which was shot at fictional television station "Second City Television" (SCTV). Edith Prickley, the show's chief, was portrayed by Martin, who had a lot of fun with the employees, including president/owner Guy Caballero, clueless newscaster Earl Camembert, and washed-up actor Johnny LaRue. Incomprehensible European immigrant Pirini Scleroso, organ saleswoman Edna Boil, feminist TV show host Libby Wolfson, and children's entertainer Mrs. Falbo were among Martin's famous characters. Barbra Sturgeon, Ethel Merman, Arlene Francis, Pauline Kael, Sally Field, Sally Field, Sophia Loren, Bernadette Peters, Connie Peters, Mother Teresa, Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith, Brenda Vaccaro, and Indira Gandhi were all portrayed in her comedic portrayals of Barbra Stover, Ethel Merman, Josephine Kael, Bernadette Peters, Bernadette Peters Martin was nominated for Outstanding Support Actress in a Variety Show in 1981 for her work in SCTV.
The Second City, a group that produced virtually the entire cast of SCTV, was included in her 1970s stage appearances. She made her Broadway debut in 1992 in the musical My Favorite Year, for which she received the Tony Award, Theatre World Award, and Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.
Candide (1997) and Oklahoma are among her Broadway credits. Nicole (2002), and the Broadway premiere of Young Frankenstein (2007), all of whom received Tony Award nominations for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.
In the Broadway revival of Exit the King, Martin appeared alongside Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon. She was nominated for a Drama Desk and an Outer Critics Circle Award for her appearance as Juliette. She wrote and performed in the critically acclaimed one-woman show Nude, Nude, Totally Nude in Los Angeles and New York City, winning a 1996 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One Person Show.
Her other theater work includes performances in The Rose Tattoo and Betty's Summer Vacation, for which she received the Elliot Norton Award for Best Actress, and both appeared at the Huntington Theatre in Boston. Berthe, Pippin's grandmother, appeared in Pippin's American Repertory Theater production in Cambridge, Massachusetts, singing the famous song "No Time At All." In April 2013, the show was transferred to Broadway at the Music Box Theatre and opened in Broadway. Pippin Martin received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, and the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Martin's last appearance in the Broadway production of Pippin was on September 22, 2013. She appeared on Broadway in Act One's latest play written and directed by James Lapine, for which she was given the Outer Critics Circle Award.
In a series of short segments on Sesame Street, Martin played Wanda Falbo the Word Fairy. Mrs. Falbo, one of Martin's SCTV characters, was based on the character. She appeared on Kate & Allie as the executive producer of a low-rated cable channel, which was turned off into her own CBS series, Roxie. Martin is known to Star Trek enthusiasts as one of two actresses to play Ishka, Quark's iconoclastic mother on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She was made up to appear as an older lady in this role, but Armin Shimerman, who appeared in Quark, is less than three years old.
In 1982 and 1983, Martin received two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program. She has appeared in animated film and television productions such as Anastasia, Boy Genius, Billy and Mandy, Rugrats as Aunt Miriam, The Best Of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue as Muriel, Apu's mother, The Simpsons, Pete, The Simpsons, The Simpsons, 1979, The Simpsons (as Apu's mother), The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy and George George Wilson's wife, Jim Burke, Baby Genius, Bette Midler appeared in the 1993 television adaptation of Gypsy starring Bette Midler.
Martin appeared in Life... and Stuff, a 1997 film.
All Over the Guy, Donna Shepherd's Coach, Wag the Dog, All I Want for Christmas, All Over the Guy, Dorian Wrencher, Worth Winning, Hedwig, The Producers, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, where she reprised her role in the small-screen film adaptation, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 and the 2016 sequel, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2. She appeared in Black Christmas' 2006 revival in a major way. In the 2009 breakout independent film Breaking Upwards, she played Helaine. Pupil, a Pupil episode on the Showtime show "British television series Nurse Jackie, which aired on July 27, 2009. Penny in the American Dad was the voice of her father in 2012. "Stan's Best Friend" was the first episode of "My Whole Life Is Thunder," and was released in a 30 Rock episode titled "My Whole Life Is Thunder." Martin appeared in Difficult People, the Museum 3 and Hulu's original film starring Billy Eichner and Julie Klausner and Amy Poehler, and directed by Amy Poehler. It debuted on August 5, 2015. Prudy Pingleton appeared on Hairspray Live!, which aired on December 7, 2016.
Working the Engels, NBC's sitcom, is Sheila Engels.
Martin was last seen as Dotty Otley in the limited-run Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Noises Off, directed by Jeremy Herrin. Martin was selected for the Best Featured Actress in a Play for her appearance.
Andrea Martin, the artist of Canada and the United States, toured around Canada and the United States in her one-woman exhibition, Andrea Martin: Everything Must Go! Seth Rudetsky, the music director of her company, is on her way to become her musical director.
In 2018, Martin, along with fellow Canadian Seth Rogen and Leonard Cohen, were inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.
In the world premiere of Taylor Mac's latest comedy Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, directed by George C. Wolfe, Martin was scheduled to appear on Broadway opposite Nathan Lane beginning in March 2019. Martin was forced to pull out of the film on March 4, 2019, after breaking four ribs in an accident during rehearsal.