Jesse L. Martin is an actor, singer, and talented stage performer who has played a long-running starring role on the television series Law & Order.
The New York University Tisch School of Arts graduate, who also played the role of Tom Collins in the Broadway musical Rent, will portray singer Marvin Gaye in an upcoming biopic. Read on to know more about Martin’s Biography, Sexual Orientation, Height and Other Facts.
biography
Jesse L. Martin was born Jesse Lamont Watkins on January 18, 1969 in Rocky Mount, Virginia, the third child of four sons to his parents, Jesse Reed and Virginia Price Watkins. His father worked as a truck driver while his mother was a college counselor.
Martin’s parents divorced when he was still a child. Later, when his mother remarried, he and his brothers decided to take their stepfather’s surname. The family then moved to Buffalo, New York, where Martin completed his education.
He attended the Buffalo School for Visual and Performing Arts. He also enrolled in an after school acting program where he honed his acting skills and grew out of his shell as he was a very shy kid. Martin’s talent while attending high school was on full display when he was voted “Most Talented” his senior year.
After high school, Martin enrolled in the theater program at the university’s Tisch School of the Arts in New York. There he became synonymous with legendary American writer Mark Twain, the president of Rubin Dorm.Jesse L. Martin’s acting career
After graduating, Martin began an acting career. He first toured the US with John Houseman’s The Acting Company before returning to New York to perform where he could find work. By this time, Martin was performing in everything from plays in local theaters to soap operas and commercials. He landed a recurring role on CBS’ Guiding Light, but in the meantime has also been waiting for tables to support himself financially.
Martin made his Broadway debut in Timon of Athens before taking on the role of Tom Collins in the Tony Award-winning Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent. He starred in the films The Government Inspector, Bright Lights Big City, The Merchant of Venice, and The Winter’s Tale, among others.
His stage performances earned him a reputation in the acting world as he began landing TV and film roles. Martin performed at “413 Hope St.” and in the movie Restaurant before cementing the role of NYPD detective Ed Green on Law & Order, which he played for nearly a decade. This made him the fifth longest-running cast member on the series.
After leaving ‘Law & Order’ in 2008, he was hired by NBC to co-star on ‘The Philanthropist’ before later joining the cast of ‘Smash.’ In 2004, Martin reappeared as a police detective in The Flash.
In addition to acting, Martin has done a number of voiceover/storytelling works, most notably on the video game Law & Order: Justice is Served and the audio book On the Shoulder of Giants, as well as Volume 2: Master Intellects and Creative Giants by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Jesse L. Martin currently resides in Manhattan, New York and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation.
Is he gay or married to a woman?
Despite starring in one of television’s longest-running series, Law & Order, little is known about Jesse L. Martin’s personal life. The actor has managed to keep the intriguing details about him low with very little being known about his personal relationships. However, he has been linked to Venessa Riding in the past.
There are no details that he may be married and he does not appear to be gay as no allegations or rumors have surfaced. The closest he has been to being accused of being gay was when he perfectly executed the role of a gay computer geek/philosophy professor in “Rent.”
Height & More Facts About Jesse L. Martin
Birth name: Jesse L. Martin
Date of birth: January 18, 1969
Nationality: American
Occupation(s) : Actor, singer, stage performer
Ethnicity: Black
Height / High: 1.88m
Net worth (income and earnings): $10 million
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