Steve Martin

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Gender: Male
Born: 14th August 1945 (currently 66 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Saturday Night Live, The Ray Stevens Show, The Smothers Brothers Show (1975), 30 Rock, The Simpsons, The Ken Berry "Wow" Show, Off to See the Wizard, The Tracey Ullman Show, Doc, Van Dyke and Company
Movies: ¡Three Amigos!, A Simple Twist of Fate, Bowfinger, Bringing Down the House, Cheaper by the Dozen, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Father of the Bride, Grand Canyon, L.A. Story, Little Shop of Horrors, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Mixed Nuts, My Blue Heaven, Novocaine, Parenthood, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Roxanne, Sgt. Bilko, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Shopgirl, The Jerk, The Lonely Guy, The Pink Panther, The Spanish Prisoner, The Absent-Minded Waiter, The Man with Two Brains, Leap of Faith, Father of the Bride Part II, HouseSitter, Pennies from Heaven, The Prince of Egypt, All of Me, The Pink Panther 2, The Out-of-Towners, Baby Mama, It's Complicated, And the Band Played On, The Muppet Movie, Joe Gould's Secret, Movers & Shakers, The Big Year, Twilight Theater, The Jerk, Saturday Night Live: The Best of Tom Hanks

Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, author, playwright, producer, musician and composer. Martin came to public notice as a writer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and later became a frequent guest on The Tonight Show. In the 1970s, Martin performed his offbeat, absurdist comedy routines before packed houses on national tours. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Martin at sixth place in a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics.

Since the 1980s, having branched away from stand-up comedy, Martin has become a successful actor in both comedic and dramatic roles, as well as an author, playwright, pianist, and banjo player, eventually earning Emmy, Grammy, and American Comedy awards, among other honors.

Martin was born in Waco, Texas, the son of Mary Lee (née Stewart) and Glenn Vernon Martin, a real estate salesman and aspiring actor. Martin was raised in Inglewood, California, and then later in Garden Grove, California, in a Baptist family. Martin was a cheerleader of Garden Grove High School. One of his earliest memories is of seeing his father, as an extra, serving drinks onstage at the Call Board Theatre on Melrose Place. During World

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