Jesse L. Martin
[[Image: |200px| ]] Jesse L. Martin as Detective Ed Green in Law & Order
Birth name	Jesse Lamont Watkins
Born	January 18, 1969 (age 38) Rocky Mount, Virginia,  United States
Other name(s)	Jesse Lamont Martin
Notable roles	Tom Collins in Rent Dr. Greg Butters in Ally McBeal Detective Ed Green in Law & Order

Jesse Lamont Martin (born Jesse Lamont Watkins, January 18, 1969) is an American theatre, film, and television actor, best known for his roles as Tom Collins in Rent and as Detective Ed Green in the NBC series Law & Order. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Detective Ed Green is a fictional character on the NBC crime drama Law & Order, portrayed by Jesse L. Martin. ... Law & Order is an American television police procedural and legal drama set in New York City. ... January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ... Rocky Mount is a town located in Franklin County, Virginia. ... Official language(s) English Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Area  Ranked 35th  - Total 42,793 sq mi (110,862 km²)  - Width 200 miles (320 km)  - Length 430 miles (690 km)  - % water 7. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Tom Collins is a character in Rent, written by Jonathan Larson. ... Rent is an American Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson. ... Ally McBeal is an American television series which ran on the FOX network from 1997 to 2002, and was one of the best-known dramedy television series of the 1990s. ... Detective Ed Green is a fictional character on the NBC crime drama Law & Order, portrayed by Jesse L. Martin. ... Law & Order is an American television police procedural and legal drama set in New York City. ... January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ... Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor or actress is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ... Tom Collins is a character in Rent, written by Jonathan Larson. ... Rent is an American Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson. ... Detective Ed Green is a fictional character on the NBC crime drama Law & Order, portrayed by Jesse L. Martin. ... NBC (an acronym for National Broadcasting Company) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Law & Order is the longest-running primetime drama currently on American television, and only one other current primetime series -- The Simpsons -- has been on the air longer. ...

Biography

Jesse L. Martin was born in Rocky Mount, Virginia, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He is the third of five sons. Martin's parents, truck driver Jesse Reed Watkins and college counselor Virginia Price, divorced when he was a child. Ms. Price eventually remarried and the boys adopted their stepfather's surname. When Martin was in grade school, the family relocated to Buffalo, New York, and the move was not an immediate success: Martin hated speaking because of his thick Southern accent and was often overcome with shyness. A concerned teacher influenced him to join an after-school drama program and cast him as the pastor in The Golden Goose. Being from Virginia, the young Martin played the character the only way he knew how: as an inspired Southern Baptist preacher. The act was a hit, and Martin emerged from his shell. Rocky Mount is a town located in Franklin County, Virginia. ... Blue Ridge Mountains, Shining Rock Wilderness Area Appalachian Mountain system The Blue Ridge is a mountain chain in the eastern United States, part of the Appalachian Mountains, forming their eastern front from Georgia to Pennsylvania. ... The driver of this DAF tractor with an auto-transport semi-trailer truck prepares to offload Å koda Octavia cars in Cardiff, Wales For other articles with similar names, see Lorry (disambiguation) and Truck (disambiguation). ... This article is becoming very long. ... NY redirects here. ... The Golden Goose (Die goldene Gans) is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm (Tale 64). ... The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a United States-based cooperative ministry agency serving Baptist churches around the world. ...

The actor attended high school at The Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts, where he was voted "Most Talented" in his senior class. He later enrolled in New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts Theater Program. After graduation, Martin toured the states with John Houseman's The Acting Company. He appeared in Shakespeare's Rock-in-Roles at the Actors Theater of Louisville and The Butcher's Daughter at the Cleveland Playhouse, and returned to Manhattan to perform in local theater, soap operas, and commercials. Finding that auditions, regional theater, and bit parts were no way to support himself, Martin waited tables at several restaurants around the city. He was literally serving a pizza when his appearance on CBS's Guiding Light aired in the same eatery. While the show aired, the whole waitstaff gathered around the bar television to cheer his performance. Often, during the dinner rush, he broke out in song. When he gave his customers their dinner checks, he told them to "keep it, because someday I'll be famous!" Many of his coworkers in the restaurants continue to follow his career and are considered his early "fan club". To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ... Tisch School of the Arts (known more commonly as Tisch or TSOA) is one of the 15 schools that make up New York University (NYU). ... John Houseman John Houseman (September 22, 1902 – October 31, 1988) was a Romanian-born actor and film producer. ... The Acting Company (Group 1 Acting Company) Founded in 1972 by John Houseman and current Producing Artistic Director Margot Harley with members of the first graduating class of Juilliards Drama Division, The Acting Company has performed over 100 plays for over 3 million people in 48 states and nine... Actors Theatre of Louisville is a performing arts theater located in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. ... Cleveland Play House is a theater complex in the Fairfax neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. ... The Borough of Manhattan, highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... For Philippine soap opera, see Teleserye. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Martin made his Broadway debut in Timon of Athens, and then performed in The Government Inspector with Lainie Kazan. While employed at the Moondance Diner, he met the late playwright Jonathan Larson, who also worked on the restaurant's staff. In 1996, Larson's musical Rent took the theater world by storm, with Martin in the part of gay computer geek/philosophy professor Tom Collins. The 1990s update of Puccini's La Bohème earned six Drama Desk Awards, five Obie Awards, four Tony Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize. Martin soon landed roles on Fox's short-lived 413 Hope Street and Eric Bross' independent film Restaurant (1998). Ally McBeal's creator, David E. Kelley, attended Rent's Broadway premiere and remembered Martin when the show needed a new boyfriend for Calista Flockhart's Ally. The actor's performance as Dr. Greg Butters on Ally McBeal caught David Duchovny's eye, who then cast Martin as a baseball-playing alien in a 1999 episode of The X-Files that he wrote and directed. Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare written around 1607. ... Lainie Kazan (born Lainie Levine on May 15, 1940 in New York City) is an American actress and singer. ... Jonathan Larson (February 4, 1960 – January 25, 1996) was an American composer who lived in New York City and authored musicals, including Rent and Tick, Tick. ... Rent is an American Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson. ... Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (December 22, 1858 – November 29, 1924) was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire. ... For other uses, see La bohème (disambiguation). ... Created in 1955, the Drama Desk Award was created to recognize Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway shows in addition to Broadway shows. ... The Obie Awards, short for Off-Broadway Theater Awards, are annual awards bestowed by the newspaper The Village Voice on theater artists performing in New York City. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award® but is formally the Antoinette Perry Award is an annual American award celebrating achievements in theater, including musical theater. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... For the animal, see Fox. ... Ally McBeal is an American television series which ran on the FOX network from 1997 to 2002, and was one of the best-known dramedy television series of the 1990s. ... This article is about the American television and film producer. ... Calista Kay Flockhart (born November 11, 1964) is an Emmy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning American actress. ... David William Duchovny (born August 7, 1960 in New York City, New York) is a Golden Globe Award-winning American television and film actor most famous for playing the character of FBI agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files television series in the 1990s. ... For other uses, see The X-Files (disambiguation). ...

While still shooting Ally McBeal, Martin heard rumors that actor Benjamin Bratt planned to leave the cast of Law & Order. Martin had tried out for the show years before and won the minor role of a car-radio thief named Earl the Hamster, but decided to wait for a bigger part. With the opportunity presenting itself, Martin begged Law & Order producer Dick Wolf for Bratt's role. Wolf hoped to cast him, and upon hearing that CBS and Fox both offered Martin development deals, he gave the actor the part without an audition. Benjamin Bratt (born December 16, 1963) is an American actor. ... Law & Order is the longest-running primetime drama currently on American television, and only one other current primetime series -- The Simpsons -- has been on the air longer. ... Richard A. (Dick) Wolf, (born December 20, 1946, New York City), is one of American television’s most respected drama series creators and is an Emmy Award-winning producer. ...

Since 1999, he has played Detective Ed Green on Law & Order, save for a brief hiatus at the end of the 2004–2005 season while he was filming the movie adaptation of Rent, for which he reprised the role of Tom Collins. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Law & Order is an American television police procedural and legal drama set in New York City. ... This article is about the 2005 film. ...

Currently in developement is Sexual Healing, a film about the last years of singer Marvin Gaye's life. Martin plans to both produce and star in the film. The film, directed by Lauren Goodman, is slated for production in 2007. Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ...

Filmography

Film and television

• RENT (2005) (Movie) .... Tom Collins
• A Christmas Carol (2004) (TV) .... Ghost of Christmas Present
• Season of Youth (2003)
• Burning House of Love' (2002) .... Andre Anderson
• Law & Order (1999) TV Series .... Detective Ed Green (1999 - present)
• Deep in My Heart (1999) (TV) .... Don Williams
• The X-Files (1999) (TV) .... Josh Exley (Episode 6x19)
• Ally McBeal (1997) TV Series .... Dr. Greg Butters (1998)
• Restaurant (1998) .... Quincy
• 413 Hope St. (1997) TV Series .... Antonio Collins (1997-1998)

This article is about the 2005 film. ... Law & Order is the longest-running primetime drama currently on American television, and only one other current primetime series -- The Simpsons -- has been on the air longer. ... For other uses, see The X-Files (disambiguation). ... Ally McBeal is an American television series which ran on the FOX network from 1997 to 2002, and was one of the best-known dramedy television series of the 1990s. ...

Broadway

• Timon of Athens (1993 revival, Broadway premiere) - play - roles of "Alcibiades' Officer" and "Second Masseur"
• The Inspector General (1994 revival) - play - role of "Abdulin" (a Merchant)
• Rent (1996 (original) - musical - role of "Tom Collins"
• Off-Broadway "Bright Lights Big City" - role of "Ted"

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External links

• Jesse L. Martin at the Internet Movie Database
• Jesse L. Martin at the Internet Broadway Database
• Jesse L. Martin at the Notable Names Database
• Jesse L. Martin Fan Site