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 was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian.
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.
Here's probably a short answer - I never feel in this piece that I'm stepping out and being Andrea Martin. I always feel like I'm Golde, so whatever Golde would do within those realms, that's what I would do.
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.
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 started out in summer stock, and that's really what I prefer.
I was very claustrophobic, and I couldn't hear, and it was enormously challenging. And that's why, frankly, I never did it again.
It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things.
And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
I was intimidated at first, ... But everyone was very helpful and kind.
Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally.
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.