When I started out in Canada, I did a lot of voice-overs and commercials.
Andrea Louise Martin Quotes
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.
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| Birth: | 15th January, 1947 |
| Nationality: | American, Canadian |
| Profession: | Actress, Comedian, Screenwriter |
About
Andrea Louise Martin born in Portland, Maine. She is an American actress and comedian of Armenian descent. She has appeared in films such as My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, on stage in productions such as the 2013 revival of Pippin for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, My Favorite Year, Fiddler on the Roof and Candide, and in the television series SCTV. Soon after graduating from Emerson College, she won a role in a touring company of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown. After frequent visits to Toronto, she relocated from New York City to Toronto in 1970 and immediately found steady theater work. Two of her first prominent film roles were in 1973's Cannibal Girls and then as the bookish sorority sister Phyllis in Black Christmas, another Canadian slasher film from 1974. She has won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program in 1982 and 1983.
