This Tony and Emmy-winning comedienne and actress was educated at Emerson College, Boston, and the Sorbonne, Paris. Andrea Martin gained prominence as a versatile regular on the Canadian SCTV comedy television series, produced in Toronto and Edmonton between 1977 and 1984. She received Emmy Awards in 1982 and 1983 as a writer for SCTV and was nominated for an Emmy Award as an actress for SCTV in 1982. Martin has appeared in many films, including Cannibal Girls, Awakening, Wag the Dog, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and The Producers. Martin played the aunt in the highly successful 2002 film adaptation of Nia Vardalos’s My Big Fat Greek Wedding and has appeared in numerous television shows as well.
Her extensive stage experience includes Pippin, What’s a Nice Country Like You Doing in a State Like This? The Boy Friend, Private Lives. Equally at home with Shakespeare or musicals, Martin played Mistress Quickly in The Merry Wives of Windsor at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1994 and Alice in My Favorite Year at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, New York, in 1992. Martin’s many awards include the Theatre World Award and the Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Musical for My Favorite Year.
