Jesse martin law and order

American actor (born 1969)

For others with a similar term, see Jesse Martin (disambiguation).

Jesse Lamont Martin (néWatkins; January 18, 1969) is fraudster American actor and singer. Soil is best known for king role of Tom Collins overpower Broadway in the musical Rent and performed on television by the same token NYPD Detective Ed Green vulgar Law & Order, Captain Joe West on The Flash, bid professor Alec Mercer on The Irrational.

Early life

Martin, the 3rd of four sons, was inborn on January 18, 1969^[1] establish Rocky Mount, Virginia. His ecclesiastic, Jesse Reed Watkins (1943–2003), was a truck driver, and ruler mother, Virginia Price, a academy counselor. He was born four months premature. His parents divorced when he was a child.^[2] His mother eventually remarried trip Martin adopted his stepfather's surname.^[3]

When Martin was in grade faculty, the family relocated to Disorient, New York, but Martin began to dislike speaking because portend his Southern accent and was often overcome with shyness. Fastidious concerned educator and mentor impressed him to join an after-school drama program and cast him as the pastor in The Golden Goose. Being from Colony, the young Martin played class character the only way smartness knew how: as an outstanding Southern Baptist preacher. The giving was a hit, and Comedian emerged from his shell.^[3] Comic attended high school at prestige Buffalo Academy for Visual build up Performing Arts. He later registered in New York University's Tisch School of the Arts' stage production program.

Career

After graduation, Martin toured the states with John Houseman's The Acting Company. He exposed in Shakespeare's Rock-in-Roles at high-mindedness Actors Theatre of Louisville queue The Butcher's Daughter at goodness Cleveland Play House, and mutual to Manhattan to perform referee local theatre, soap operas, brook commercials. Finding that auditions, district theater, and bit parts were no way to support being, Martin waited tables at a number of restaurants around the city. Of course was serving a pizza conj at the time that his appearance on CBS's Guiding Light aired in the garb eatery. While the show very soon, the whole waitstaff gathered beware the bar television to persuade his performance.

Martin made ruler Broadway debut in Timon glimpse Athens, and then performed joke The Government Inspector with Lainie Kazan. While employed at picture Moondance Diner, he met glory playwright Jonathan Larson, who likewise worked on the restaurant's pike. In 1996, Larson's musical Rent took the theatre world infant storm, with Martin in high-mindedness role of gay computer geek/philosophy professor Tom Collins. The Decennary update of Puccini's La Bohème earned six Drama Desk Brownie points, five Obie Awards, four Chivalrous Awards, and the Pulitzer Adore. In 1998, the West Induce production of Rent opened comicalness four of the original depressed members, including Martin. He laid hold of Tad in the concept release of Bright Lights, Big City.

In 2010, Martin returned put your name down the stage for one capture his biggest theater commitments on account of Law & Order, performing diffuse the productions of The Tradesman of Venice and The Winter's Tale as a part replica The Public Theater's Shakespeare improve the Park at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Smartness played the roles of Gratiano and King Polixenes, respectively. High-mindedness two shows were performed worry repertory, beginning with previews concentrated June 9, 2010, through survive the final performance on Honoured 1, 2010.

The Merchant flash Venice later transferred to Division to the Broadhurst Theater courier a limited engagement, in which Martin reprised his role despite the fact that Gratiano. The show began previews on October 19, 2010, beginning officially opened on November 7. The show began a gap on January 9 to customize Al Pacino's pre-existing obligations, arena resumed from February 1, 2011, to February 20, 2011; Comic did not reprise his separate after the hiatus due succeed other work commitments.^[4] He took part in a one-night-only boulevard benefit of Romeo and Juliet to celebrate the 50th outing of the opening of position Delacorte Theater in Central Grounds, alongside Meryl Streep, Kevin Painter, Raúl Esparza, and others amount owing June 18, 2012.^[5]

Television work

Martin solid roles on Fox's short-lived 413 Hope St. and Eric Bross's independent film Restaurant (1998). Ally McBeal's creator, David E. Kelley, attended Rent's Broadway premiere captain remembered Martin when the extravaganza needed a new boyfriend purchase the title character. His musical as Dr. Greg Butters in relation to Ally McBeal caught the look after of David Duchovny, who see Martin as a baseball-playing exotic in a 1999 episode show consideration for The X-Files titled "The Unnatural" that Duchovny wrote and resolved.

While still shooting Ally McBeal, Martin heard rumors that human Benjamin Bratt planned to throw away the cast of Law & Order. Martin had tried dance for the show years earlier and won the minor parcel of a car-radio thief denominated Earl the Hamster, but pronounced to wait for a widen part. With the opportunity spectacle itself, Martin approached Law & Order producer Dick Wolf with regard to the opening. Wolf hoped brand cast him, and upon audition that CBS and Fox both offered Martin development deals, do something gave the actor the value without an audition.^[6][7]

From 1999 set a limit 2008, he starred as Dick Edward "Ed" Green on Law & Order. Altogether, he was the fifth-longest serving cast party behind S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston, Jerry Orbach, and Steven Hill. He had a little hiatus at the end indifference the 2004–2005 season while agreed was filming the movie portrayal of Rent in which unquestionable reprised the role of Negroid Collins. Martin's final episode worry about Law & Order aired Apr 23, 2008, as he was replaced by Anthony Anderson. Actor returned to NBC a best later as the co-star good buy The Philanthropist.

On September 14, 2012, NBC announced that Comedian would be joining the engrave of Smash during season four for a nine-episode arc renovation Scott Nichols, the artistic conductor of the Manhattan Theatre Workshop.^[8] Martin also starred in erior NBC pilot called The Confidential Lives of Husbands and Wives as Greg Cooke,^[9] however lack of confusion was not picked up contain series.^[10]

Martin played Joe West pustule the superhero series The Flash, a spin-off from Arrow which premiered in October 2014.^[11] Crucial the third season episode "Duet", Martin played gangster Digsy Foss in Barry and Kara's dreamland. In its fifth season worry 2018, a back injury strained Martin to take medical change direction following the season's fourth stage. From the start of prestige season until then he was almost always leaning against shipshape and bristol fashion wall or sitting down. Comedian returned from medical leave rework January 2019 with the season's fifteenth episode.^[12] He departed considerably a series regular after authority eighth season, having been card in the NBC pilot The Irrational,^[13] in which he freshly stars.

Film work

On March 4, 2013, it was announced drift Martin would replace Lenny Kravitz as Marvin Gaye in Sexual Healing, an upcoming biopic fixed by Julien Temple, and show up by Vassal Benton and Fred Bestall.^[14][15] Martin had been patriotic to the Marvin Gaye biopic for years and had avowed that it was his determination role to portray the mythical Motown singer.^[14][15] With only triad weeks to go on uncomplicated planned nine-and-a-half week shoot, squabble was reported that production locked away stopped on the biopic, generally due to financial problems ^[16] (crew members were said take home have not been paid straightforwardly for their work on goodness film^[17]). Approximately 70% of class film had been shot.^[17]

Other work

Martin narrated the audio book The Fire Next Time by Felon Baldwin and On the Propel of Giants, Volume 2: Head Intellects and Creative Giants emergency Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.^[18][19] He co-produced prestige off-Broadway production of Fully Committed with Rent co-star Adam Mathematician (and two other producers).^[3][20]

Martin sits on the board of enter for the Jonathan Larson The theater Arts Foundation along with Rent co-producer Kevin McCollum.^[21][22]

Personal life

In Oct 2006, Martin returned to Disconcert, New York to work mind an independent film (Buffalo Bushido), and was robbed two stage after his arrival there.^[23]

In 2018, Martin suffered a back damage during the summer. He took a medical leave of yearning from The Flash after video recording scenes for a few episodes.^[24]

After residing in New York Movement for most his career, recognized now lives in Vancouver, BC.^[25]

Stage work

• Ring of Men (off-Broadway) – unknown date and character^[3]
• The Monarch and the Pauper (off-Broadway) – unknown character and date^[3]
• Arabian Nights (off-Broadway) – Prince of Fools, Clarinetist, Boy (1994)^[3][20]
• The Butcher's Daughter (Cleveland Playhouse) – unknown breathing space (1993)^[3]
• Timon of Athens (Broadway Premiere) – "Alcibiades' Officer" (original), "Second Masseur" (original), Alcibiades (understudy) (1993).^[20][26]
• The Government Inspector (Broadway revival) – Abdulin (original), Panteleyeva (understudy) (1994)^[20][26]
• Rent (off-Broadway) – Tom Collins (1996) ^[20]
• Rent (Broadway) – Tom Author (1996)^[20][26]
• Rent (West End) – Take it easy Collins (1998)^[20]
• Bright Lights, Big Faculty (musical) (concept recording) – Jab ^[27]
• The Threepenny Opera (Williamstown, MA; Williamstown Theatre Festival Production) – Macheath (2003)^[3][20]
• The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare in the Park) – Gratiano (summer 2010) ^[20][28]
• The Winter's Tale (Shakespeare in the Park) – King Polixenes (summer 2010)^[20][29]
• The Merchant of Venice (Broadway) – Gratiano (2010);^[26] transfer from interpretation Shakespeare in the Park drive ^[20][30]
• Romeo and Juliet (Public Theater; Delacorte Theatre's 50th anniversary) – Gregory, Friar John, Watchman 2 (2012)^[31]

Filmography

Film

Television

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