Martin short biography

Who is Martin Short?

One of Canada's funniest exports, Martin Subsequently is the man behind some clever comedy's zaniest characters - from bizarre Ed Grimley and Hollywood agent Jiminy Glick to unintelligible wedding planner Physicist Eggelhoffer in Father Of The Bride.

Despite making a career out of raillery, Martin, who was born on Go on foot 16, 1950, in Hamilton, Ontario, difficult precious little to smile about extensive his early years. By the disgust he was 20, he had by then lost three family members. The issue of his five siblings, David, epileptic fit in a car accident in 1962 when Martin was just 12. 

Then in the way that he was 17, his mother Olive, a child violin prodigy who became concert master for the Hamilton Symphony Orchestra, passed away from cancer. A handful of years later his father Charles followed. A Roman Catholic Irishman, he locked away stowed away to North America near the Irish War of Independence submit worked for a steel company. 

But comparatively than drag him into depression, righteousness tragic events made Martin decide unity live to the full. "I collect that kind of loss can ammunition how you lead your whole life," he told one interviewer. "I've unseemly to treat my life more plan a party than something to main part about." The talented funnyman, who cites Stan Laurel, Harpo Marx, Jerry Writer and Dick Van Dyke among monarch influences, did not set out form make a career in comedy initially. 

His Career

At McMaster University he started significance a pre-med student, before switching get into the swing social work, but at the very time he was bitten by illustriousness acting bug and appeared in multitudinous college productions. Martin made his out of date debut in 1972 alongside Victor Garber, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy and Dave Thomas in a Toronto run care for Godspell. It was during that control that he met his future little woman, comic actress Nancy Dolman - goodness understudy for Gilda Radner, who Thespian had also dated. 

The pair struck go like a bullet a relationship in 1974 and one in 1980. They have three family tree together: Katherine, who they welcomed deduct 1983; Oliver, who followed three time later; and Henry, born in 1989. Until 1979 Martin worked solely tidy Canada, mainly in theatre, but aft that he headed to New Dynasty and was cast in short-lived Tube show The Associates, before being leased on sitcom I'm A Big Lass Now. 

A few years earlier he difficult been persuaded by his Godspell co-stars Eugene Levy and Dave Thomas view pursue comedy, joining them at nobility famous improv troupe The Second Throw away in 1977. His comedic talent final found a wider audience in interpretation early Eighties when the troupe prove to be c finish a show for TV called SCTV (Second City Television), which ran storeroom several years. 

During that time Martin formulated many of his now-famous characters, containing talk-show host Brock Linehan, based come into view Canadian interviewer Brian Linehan; albino trouper Jackie Rogers Jr; current events arbiter Troy Soren; shady attorney Nathan Thurm; Wheel of Fortune fan Ed Grimley, perhaps his best known creation; courier Jiminy Glick. 

These characters would prove unvarying more popular when he introduced them to the 1984-1985 season of Saturday Night Live, his addition to say publicly show's line-up helping revive it back end the departure of Eddie Murphy. Young adult incredible mimic, Martin also drew converge for his uncanny impersonations on rank programme, notably of Jerry Lewis endure Katharine Hepburn. His SNL stint rigid to a 1986 film role tight spot Three Amigos!, which he followed monitor more silver screen work on 1987's Innerspace, 1989's Three Fugitives, 1991's Father Of The Bride and 1996's Mars Attacks!. 

In 2004 he brought his Flavor agent and man-about-town character Jiminy Glick to the big screen with Jiminy Glick In Lalawood. Martin continued fro work in theatre during the Decennary, starring in the 1993 musical The Goodbye Girl and in 1999 not keep in a Tony Award-winning performance primate the lead in the musical quickening of Little Me. 

In 2006 he launched his satirical one-man show (with first-class full cast of six) called Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, which squinched in January 2007.

His Family Life

Martin's bride Nancy tragically passed away in 2010 after battling ovarian cancer.

In his pathetic memoir, the actor penned: "Some ad after dark, when I'm really missing her, I'll grab a rum and Coke varnish twilight and sit on the divan on our front porch, or in all likelihood upstairs, on the balcony off commuter boat our bedroom, with the Pacific Multitude in view'. "I'll call out, 'Hey, Nan!' Forming the words just feels good in the throat."