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
Here's the thing: I did one episode of Deep Space Nine, and I loved everybody that I worked with. People couldn't have been kinder... But I had a really, really difficult time with the prosthetics.
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.
When I started out in Canada, I did a lot of voice-overs and commercials.
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.
Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally.
Nine out of ten males will believe anything, especially if it confirms their virility
I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian.
Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards.
It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things.
I like to know where I'm going to be at seven o'clock.
I love the comradery of doing theatre that you don't get in film.
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.