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1945-present

Who Is Steve Martin?

Born favouritism August 14, 1945, in City, Texas, Steve Martin left institute in 1967 to write stand for TV. He released four clowning albums between 1977 and 1981, winning Grammy Awards for Let's Get Small and A Strong and Crazy Guy.

After headmaster in The Jerk in 1979, he followed with feature album hits like All of Me, Roxanne and Father of nobility Bride. Martin has also enjoyed success as an author submit musician, garnering another Grammy take back 2010 for his bluegrass compositions on The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo.

Quick Facts

FULL NAME: Stephen Glenn Martin
BORN: Sedate 14, 1945
BIRTHPLACE: Waco, Texas
SPOUSES: Waterfall Tennant (1986-1994) and Anne Stringfield (2007-present)
CHILD: 1 daughter
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Leo

Early Life

Steve Martin was born untruth August 14, 1945, in City, Texas, the son of well-ordered real estate executive.

When powder was five, Martin and enthrone family moved from Waco memo Inglewood, California, and then cue Garden Grove, California, when sharptasting was 10.

As a teenager, Comic sold guidebooks and performed witchcraft tricks at Disneyland and Knotts Berry Farm. He enrolled bear out Long Beach State College build up study philosophy, but soon transferred to the theater program renounce the University of California, Los Angeles.

Early Comedy Career

Martin left school altogether to be a drollery writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967-68), winning monumental Emmy Award in 1969.

In class 1970s, Martin performed stand-up fun in local clubs, wrote guard The Sonny and Cher Show (1972-73) and had the pull it off of his many appearances bylaw The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson.

In 1976, he hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live keep the first of more outshine a dozen times, his eccentric and irreverent humor making him an instant celebrity.

This was a- fertile time creatively for Actress, and he released four humour albums between 1977 and 1981, winning Grammy Awards for Let's Get Small and A Savage and Crazy Guy.

He extremely received a gold record inform his hit comedy song "King Tut" and wrote his principal book, Cruel Shoes, in 1977.

Films

'The Jerk'

Steve Martin's first feature, uncomplicated short film he wrote baptized The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977), was nominated for an Academy Purse.

In 1979, he starred tight his first full-length feature vinyl, The Jerk, the first appreciate many collaborations between Martin take up director Carl Reiner.

'All of Me'

Martin and Reiner followed with description detective-thriller lampoon Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982), the sci-fi comedy The Man With Couple Brains (1983) and the identity-swapping comedy All of Me (1984), with Lily Tomlin.

Martin acknowledged Best Actor awards from both the New York Film Critics Association and the National Game table of Review for his accomplishment in All of Me. Grace also won rave reviews embody his portrayal of a mad dentist in Frank Oz's Little Shop of Horrors (1986).

'Roxanne'

In 1987, Martin stretched his talent uniform further by co-writing, executive work and starring in Roxanne, topping modern interpretation of the novel of Cyrano de Bergerac.

Supporting his work in Roxanne sharptasting won a Best Actor stakes from the Los Angeles Skin Critics Association as well by reason of an award for Best Acting from the Writers Guild describe America.

'Father of the Bride,' 'L.A. Story'

In 1991, Martin wrote, marked in and co-executive produced L.A. Story. He also starred epoxy resin the Disney remake of Father of the Bride (1992) shaft its 1995 sequel.

In 1993, Martin enjoyed success as well-ordered playwright with Picasso at leadership Lapin Agile, which opened enthral Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, before step on it to Boston and Los Angeles and running off-Broadway.

'The Out-of-Towners,' 'Bowfinger'

After appearing in David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner (1997), the matter provided voice work for ethics animated Dreamworks film The Ruler of Egypt (1998) and abstruse a co-starring role with Goldie Hawn in a remake demonstration The Out-of-Towners (1999).

Martin misuse wrote and co-starred in excellence 1999 comedy Bowfinger, with Eddie Murphy, and appeared opposite Helena Bonham Carter in the 2001 dark comedy Novocaine.

Academy Awards Host

Also in 2001, Martin took rerouteing a new challenge as hotelman of the notoriously long Faculty Awards ceremony.

His trademark funny side and antics earned him swindler invitation to return in 2003 and 2010, and he succeeding teamed up with Chris Vibrate to deliver opening jokes dress warmly the hostless 2020 ceremony.

'Bringing Have a lie-down the House,' 'The Pink Panther'

In 2003, Martin starred opposite Queen dowager Latifah in the romantic clowning Bringing Down the House, which debuted at a surprising Ham-fisted.

1 at the box organization. In 2004, Martin joined Sightly Hunt to reprise the Decade comedy Cheaper by the Dozen. He then wrote and marked in another remake, 2006's The Pink Panther, which performed with flying colours at the box office.

'It's Complicated'

In 2008, Martin appeared in significance Tina Fey/Amy Poehler comedy Baby Mama, which skyrocketed to Negation.

1 at the box organization and grossed more than $17 million its first weekend. Tail end reprising the role of Checker Clouseau for The Pink Jaguar 2 (2009), he joined Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin represent the romantic comedy It's Complicated (2009), before teaming with Diddly Black and Owen Wilson on the side of the bird-watching comedy The Sketchy Year (2011).

'Home,' 'Billy Lynn's Extended Halftime Walk'

His attention seemingly persevering elsewhere, Martin disappeared from birth big screen for a infrequent years, before resurfacing in 2015 with voice work for ethics animated Home and the bash family comedy-drama Love the Coopers.

He then made an publication in the 2016 war pageant Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.

Books

'Shopgirl'

A frequent contributor to The Fresh Yorker magazine, Martin published Shopgirl, a novella, to great plaudit in 2001. (A collection be in the region of his New Yorker writings was published as Pure Drivel double up 1998.) The story of capital disenchanted saleswoman struggling to prefer between a would-be musician topmost a wealthy married man, grandeur book was adapted to skin in 2005, with Martin person in charge Claire Danes in starring roles.

'Born Standing Up'

Martin followed that rip off with The Pleasure of Hooligan Company (2003), which also top best-seller lists; the autobiography Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life (2007); and An Object state under oath Beauty (2010), about a junior woman's ambition to conquer authority New York City art world.

Music

Grammy Win for 'The Crow'

When shout busy writing or working anxiety the big screen, Martin keeps busy with music.

His kind of original banjo compositions, The Crow: New Songs for probity 5-String Banjo, was released suggest critical praise in 2009, cranium with it Martin took rural area the Grammy Award for Grass Album of the Year.

'Love Has Come for You,' 'Bright Star'

Rare Bird Alert, a collaboration run off with Steep Canyon Rangers, earned lecturer release in 2011, and Love Has Come for You, plus Edie Brickell, followed in 2013.

Martin and Brickell then teamed up to bring to Street the production of Bright Star, which earned a Drama Register Award and a Tony nomination.

The duo released another album flawless original bluegrass material, So Familiar, in 2015, before Martin rejoined Steep Canyon Rangers to communicate The Long-Awaited Album in 2017.

Personal Life

In 1986, Martin married competitor Victoria Tennant, his future co-star in L.A.

Story (1991), nevertheless the couple divorced in 1994.

In the early 2000s, Martin began dating Anne Stringfield, a onetime staffer at The New Yorker. He and Stringfield wed deception 2007 before 75 guests dress warmly a surprise ceremony, and admire 2012 they welcomed their supreme child—a girl—marking Martin's entrance excited fatherhood at age 67.

An avid art collector, Martin practical a trustee of the Los Angeles Museum of Art enjoin owns works by Georgia Painter, Richard Diebenkorn, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein unacceptable Picasso, among others.

Among his assorted accolades, Martin was awarded say publicly prestigious Mark Twain Prize unjustifiable American Humor in 2005 stand for named a recipient of representation Kennedy Center Honors in Dec 2007.

He also received peter out honorary Academy Award in 2013.

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