Mae Martin
Mae Martin was born in Toronto, Canada on May 2nd, 1987 and is the Comedian. At the age of 37, Mae Martin biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Mae Martin (born 2 May 1987) is a Canadian comedian and actress.
Martin has won two Canadian Comedy Awards as part of the comedy troupe "The Young and the Useless".
Early life
Mae Martin was born in Toronto on 2 May 1987, the child of Canadian writer and teacher Wendy Martin and English food writer James Chatto. James, whose parents were actor Tom Chatto and talent agent Ros Chatto, appeared in the 1963 film adaptation of Lord of the Flies as a child and on the West End stage in Jesus Christ Superstar in the 1980s. Martin has an elder brother, Joseph, who is an academic. Their paternal uncle is artist and actor Daniel Chatto, who is married to Queen Elizabeth II's niece Lady Sarah Chatto.
Martin was baptised in a village on the Greek island of Corfu, where their family lived for several years. James and Wendy were ex-hippies and comedy fans and the family home was filled with recordings of British classics (Monty Python’s Flying Circus, The Goon Show, Blackadder) as well as Americans such as Steve Martin.
Martin attended an all-girls school and performed on stage wearing the school's uniform. The atmosphere growing up was—according to Martin—a "liberal utopia" in terms of sexuality, in that James and Wendy were open-minded and Toronto was an accepting city.
Personal life
Martin describes childhood obsessions with Bette Midler, The Kids in the Hall, Pee-wee Herman and the Rocky Horror Show. At 11 years old, Martin was taken to a comedy club, and at that point the addiction became stand-up comedy. Martin and two friends became known as "the Groupies" for going to see Family Circus Maximus (a play from The Second City improv troupe) 160 times in a year. Embracing being "a weird kid" helped ease the path to a comedy career.
Martin became addicted to drugs and consequently underwent rehabilitation, using stories of this as the basis for some stand-up routines. Addiction made Martin leave home at 16. Abusive relationships were normalised in the night-time scene: Martin said, "If you put a teenage girl in any industry like that, there are going to be people taking advantage."
Martin's cultural influences include Stand by Me, a 1986 American coming-of-age comedy-drama adventure film based on Stephen King's 1982 novella The Body; the people-pleasing maitre d' character in Beauty and the Beast, the 1991 adaptation as a Disney animated feature film; Waiting for Guffman, a 1996 American mockumentary comedy film following a troupe of actors using improvised dialogue; and the Spice Girls, specifically the video from the 1997 song "Viva Forever".
Martin came out publicly as non-binary in 2021. Martin uses they/them and she/her pronouns, saying, "I love it when people say 'they' but I don't mind 'she' at ALL." They have dated both men and women, stating in April 2021 that they are bisexual after previously resisting labelling their sexuality. In June 2021, Mae described themself as "a queer person".
Career
Martin's career began in Canada, where they appeared in the comedy group "The Young and the Useless" when they were introduced. Martin was the youngest-ever nominee for the Tim Sims Encouragement Fund Award at the age of 16. Martin's resume in Canada includes writing for the sketch comedy collection Baroness von Sketch Show. They are a two-time Canadian Screen Award winner for Best Writing in a Variety or Sketch Comedy Series for the work they did with that show's writing staff.
Martin arrived in London in 2011 for a fresh start, falling in love with the area, and in the first working dead end jobs in order to concentrate on breaking in to British comedy. Mae Martin: Us, which culminated in the BBC Radio 4 series Mae Martin's Guide to 21st Century Sexuality, which was on display at Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Martin has appeared on British television and radio show The Now Show, and he has co-hosted GrownUpLand.
The 2017 Edinburgh show Dope was titled in reference to recreational drugs as well as dopamine, a brain chemical linked to compulsive behaviour: love can also be a drug. It was based on years of study, drawing on the work of Dr. Gabor Maté, who defined heroin as a behavior or drug that a person uses to treat pain in the short term, but had negative effects in the long run. Without addressing the root cause of the pain, a person may try to avoid the symptoms, but will eventually crave more relief and be more vulnerable to relapse. Gambling, sex, food, education, social media, and, of course, opioids are all items in modern culture that have the ability to become addictive, as shown by this list. Maté appeared in Mae Martin's Guide to 21st Century Addiction, 2017 two-part book.
Dope, which refers to Martin's addictive personality, has been turned into a half-hour Netflix comedy special that was released in January 2019 as part of the Comedians of the World collection. This culminated in Feel Well, the Channel 4/Netflix comedy film in which Martin co-created and appeared in. In 2021, the second season was announced. Joe Hampson, the other co-creator, has been collaborating on and off since 2012.) As opposed to the scores of heroin users Martin met in rehab, who had grown up in poor or addicted families but never had a chance, Guardian interviewer Simon Hattenstone described one of the underlying themes as the shame of coming from wealth. Lucy Mangan praised the series as "immaculately written" and "properly funny" in the same paper.
Objective Fiction has been more active in recent years.
They appeared in LOL in 2022: Last One Laughing Canada. They appeared in the HBO Max series The Flight Attendant later this year, in a recurring role as Grace St. James.