- published: 10 Jun 2013
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Andrea Louise Martin (born January 15, 1947) is an American and Canadian actress and comedienne. She has appeared in films such as My Big Fat Greek Wedding, on stage in productions such as My Favorite Year, Fiddler on the Roof and Candide, and in the television series, SCTV.
Martin, the oldest of three children, was born in Portland, Maine, in 1947, the daughter of Sybil A. (née Manoogian) and John Papazian Martin. Her paternal grandparents were Armenian immigrants who moved to the U.S. from Turkey to escape the Armenian Genocide. Her father owned Martin's Foods, a grocery store chain. Her maternal grandparents were Armenians from Yerevan and Istanbul.
She has two sons, Jack (born ca. 1980) and Joe (born 1983), with ex-husband Bob Dolman, a screenwriter. Through this marriage, she was the sister-in-law of Dolman's sister, actress Nancy, and her husband Martin Short.
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.
Actors: David Suchet (actor), Patricia Hodge (actress), Adrian Scarborough (actor), Geoffrey Hutchings (actor), Joanna Scanlan (actress), Nick Mirsky (producer), Joel Holmes (miscellaneous crew), Hilary Salmon (producer), Dan Stevens (actor), Tim Wallers (actor), Mark Thornton (editor), Philip Fox (actor), Mark Lockyer (actor), Ben Caplan (actor), Colin Barr (director),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Greg Evigan (actor), Chuck McCann (actor), Tim Thomerson (actor), Eileen Brennan (actress), Linda Gray (actress), Jessica Walter (actress), Norman Lear (producer), Norman Lear (miscellaneous crew), Lois Nettleton (actress), James Frawley (director), Anita Gillette (actress), Gary Sandy (actor), Vanessa Brown (actress), Barbara Baxley (actress), Shelly Manne (composer),
Plot: The world was exactly like ours EXCEPT that women were the dominate gender. Women were the captains of industry and men were household workers, secretaries and waiters trying to attract attention with their sexuality. To add some additional twists to that twist there were characters into dominance/submission, a woman who had been a man (played by Linda Gray) and, of course, women CEOs having affairs with their secretaries.
Keywords: big-business, male-subordination, objectification-of-men, satire, sexual-harassment, sitcom, workplace