Jesse martin law and order
•
Jesse L. Martin
American actor (born )
For others with a similar name, see Jesse Martin (disambiguation).
Jesse L. Martin | |
|---|---|
Martin at the PaleyFest Fall TV Previews for The Flash | |
| Born | Jesse Lamont Watkins () January 18, (age&#;56) Rocky Mount, Virginia, U.S. |
| Alma&#;mater | New York University (BA) |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, singer |
| Years&#;active | –present |
Jesse Lamont Martin (néWatkins; January 18, ) is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his role of Tom Collins on Broadway in the musical Rent and performed on television as NYPD Detective Ed Green on Law & Order, Captain Joe West on The Flash, and professor Alec Mercer on The Irrational.
Early life
[edit]Martin, the third of four sons, was born on January 18, [1] in Rocky Mount, Virginia. His father, Jesse Reed Watkins (–), was a truck driver, and his mother, Virginia Price, a college counselor. He was born two months premature. His parents divorced when
•
Jesse L. Martin
A handsome African-American actor, Jesse L. Martin broke through as part of the original cast of the seminal huvudgata musical, "Rent," a lates, NYC/HIV gloss on Puccini's classic musikdrama "La Bohème." Martin's performance as Tom Collins, a gay professor and lover of the doomed drag queen Angel, led to a recurring role as Dr. Greg Butters, the seemingly perfect new boyfriend of "Ally McBeal" (Fox, ).
Showing an impressive off-screen savvy, Martin moved on to "Law & Order" (NBC, ), where he was cast as Jerry Orbach's loose cannon new partner, detective Ed Green. He stayed with the show until , taking a leave of absence to reprise his huvudgata role in the rulle version of "Rent" (), as well as notching supporting roles in indie films like "The Cake Eaters" () with Kristen Stewart and co-starring on the short-lived show "The Philanthropist" (NBC, ) and the hit musical series, "Smash" (NBC, ) before scoring his dream role in the long-gestating Marvin Gaye biopic, "Sexual He
•
The star is scheduled to appear in at least 13 episodes of the Dick Wolf-created series.
The trade publication reports that Martin will team with new co-star Jeremy Sisto ("Six Feet Under," Festen) when the show returns. Casting for the show has also been in the news of late, as Sam Waterston (Abe Lincoln in Illinois) was announced to replace the departing politician-actor Fred Thompson.
Martin is known to theatre audiences for originating the role of Tom Collins in Rent — a part he reprised for the Christopher Columbus film version of the musical. Martin is also known for his television appearances on "Ally McBeal" and as the Ghost of Christmas Present in NBC's TV musical version of "A Christmas Carol." He can also be heard on the Sh-K-Boom Records release of Paul Scott Goodman's rock opera Bright Lights, Big City. Martin is also slated to play Marvin Gaye in the feature film biopic "Sexual Healing."
New York-based actors all breathed a collective sigh of relief when