Steve Martin

Stephen Glenn Martin was born in Waco, Texas, on August 14, 1945. Apart from his role as an actor, Martin has succeeded in other fields as a screenwriter, writer, presenter and musician, there is nothing. In his youth he studied philosophy, but soon realized that show business was his thing and tried his hand at shows like ‘Saturday Night Live’ and wrote the script for a musical comedy called The Smother Brother’s Comedy Hours , for which he received an Emmy. in 1969. He continued working on television with small roles and his first leading role came with the comedy, written by him, A Crazy Man on the Loose (1979), by Carl Reiner , in which he played a naive boy whose life changes thanks to to an unexpected fortune.

He repeated with Reiner in Dead customer does not pay or A genius with two brains . In the film Three Amigos (1986), she gave him the opportunity to work alongside two other comedians, Chevy Chase and Martin Short ; there she also collaborated on the script. Three women for a cheek ,My dear mobster ,A stroke of fate orThe Little Shop of Horrors (1986) were other humorous films that continued to corroborate his stupendous vein in this field. He met actress Victoria Tennant in the movie, Twice Me and they both got married in 1986. Their marriage lasted until 1994.

In 1987, he dared to adapt Edmund Rostand’s novel, ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’, into the filmRoxanne , where of course, Martin played the long-nosed lover capable of reciting the most beautiful verses to the beautiful Daryl Hannah . For this role, Steve was awarded several awards, including a Golden Globe for Best Comedy Actor.

Throughout his career, Martin has been able to coincide with other greats of humor. InBetter alone than in bad company , he shared the spotlight with the likeable John Candy . Steve stated a long time ago that this is his favorite movie. In addition, he became good friends with his classmate Candy, by whose death, Martin suffered a deep depression. In 1988, withA couple of seducers , he was accompanied by Michael Caine , who also showed off his comic vision in this remake of the 1964 film, with David Niven and Marlon Brando . He was Goldie Hawn ‘s film partnerinHusband by surprise , and coincided with her again inOutsiders in New York .

With Sweet Home…Sometimes! (1989), Steve Martin played for the first time the classic role of family man that he is so good at. In the film he shared shots with Dianne Wiest , Jason Robards , Mary Steenburgen or Rick Moranis , and the plot focused on a large family and the problems that befall them.

In 1991, Charles Shyer directedThe Father of the Bride (1991) , a remake of the 1950 Spencer Tracy film , which recounted the headaches of a father before the imminent wedding of his only daughter. Martin was again a hoot at the preparations for the happy event, and in the film he had the opportunity to work with the great Diane Keaton and comedian Martin Short. With both he repeated again in the sequel Vuelve el padre de la novia (Now also grandfather) (1995).

However, Martin did not want to miss the opportunity to try another type of genre, and was part ofThe Plot (1997) , a David Mamet thriller, and later in the drama Joe Gould’s Secret (2000) . But comedy was his best due, and he soon returned to it withBowfinger, the rogue , by Frank Oz , a hilarious film that dealt with the cinema within the cinema. In his plot, a group of filmmakers with little production money, intend to shoot a movie with the fashionable actor as the protagonist, but without him knowing it. InDangerous Smile , played a dentist about to marry Laura Dern , who is being taken in by her drug-addicted patient, Helena Bonham Carter .

He resumed comedy withIt was all over the place , where he was acting opposite a funny and newly discovered Queen Latifah and soon returned to his role as patient and easygoing father withDoce en casa (2003), by Shawn Levy , a family film about a large clan with all the entanglements that this entails. Joining him were Bonnie Hunt , Tom Welling , and Piper Perabo . Inevitable was the sequelAway from Home (2005). The same year she starred in the romanticShopgirl , where he fell in love with Claire Danes , but the role of mature seducer did not seem to convince. The character of Inspector Clousseau in the films ofThe Pink Panther –a revisiting of those performed by Peter Sellers in the 1960s– has brought him back to the limelight. In 2006, Shawn Levy directed him again in a script co-written by Martin himself, and although the film contained good gags with a histrionic Steve Martin, the film was not up to its predecessors. In The Pink Panther 2 , he is joined by Jean Reno , Emily Mortimer , and Andy Garcia , among others.

He married for the second time with the young journalist Anne Stringfield in 2007, in a surprise ceremony that he carried out with all his friends, including actors like Diane Keaton or Tom Hanks . He has not fathered children in any relationship, perhaps this is the only thing that remains pending for this versatile actor.

He is a vegetarian, plays the banjo with ease and is a declared fan of Monty Python: his inspiration, surely. He has stated that “I never thought I would go this far or last this long in show business. It makes me very happy to still have a career and still do comedies.” Steve Martin has another of his films in mind, From Zero to Sixto (2009) with his former partner Keaton, and is also preparing a romantic film with Alec Baldwin and Meryl Streep ; quite an honor for him.