Andrea Martin
Andrea Martin
Andrea Louise Martinis an American actress, singer, author and comedian, best known for her work in the television series SCTV. She has appeared in films such as Black Christmas, Wag the Dog, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, My Big Fat Greek Weddingand My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, and lent her voice to the animated films Anastasia, The Rugrats Movieand Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth15 January 1947
CityPortland, ME
CountryCanada
I like to know where I'm going to be at seven o'clock.
But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.
I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer.
It (the gunfire) was a lot, it was enough to make me get up. We've been here exactly a year and nothing has happened here. We've never had to call the cops.
The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing.
It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things.
I started out in summer stock, and that's really what I prefer.
Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality.
For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I'm going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better.
I could have stayed in L.A. and done sitcoms for awhile and will probably go back and do one I hope.
I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it.
I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it.
And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.