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Jesse L. Martin

Age: 40
Height: 190 cm

Birth Place: Rocky Mount, Virginia, USA
Born: Jan. 18th, 1969

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Jesse L. Martin's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
Law & Order	Detective Ed &hellip
The Philanthropist	Philip Maidst&hellip

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

Jesse was born in Virginia's Blue Ridge mountain range. His mother, Virginia Price, was a college career counselor. His father, Jesse Reed Watkins, was a truck driver. His parents divorced when he was very young. His mother then moved his family to Buffalo, New York. He and his four brothers took the surname of his mother's second husband. His family calls him by his middle name, Lamont. As a fourth-grader, a teacher cast him in a play and he found his passion. After graduating from high school, he worked in restaurants to afford the tuition at New York University. He then got work on soaps and did commercials. His breakthrough came in a role in Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical Rent (2005). That was followed up with TV exposure in his first starring role in the series "413 Hope St." (1997), which aired on Fox.

TRIVIA:

Attended the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute.
Almost Graduated from NYU
Accompanied 'Jerry Orbach' (qv)'s widow Elaine to the 2005 Tony Awards.
Performed the song "Razzle Dazzle" from the musical Chicago at the 2005 Tony Awards just as the "In Memoriam" section of the show was finishing. The last photo shown during the memorial was that of Jerry Orbach, who was both Martin's costar on Law and Order and the first person to perform "Razzle Dazzle" in the original Broadway production of Chicago.
Worked at the Moondance Diner in New York City with 'Jonathan Larson' (qv).
On April 2, 2006, Martin was a featured guest at the awards ceremony of the SunDeis Film Festival at Brandeis University. Martin, introduced to a standing ovation, presented his "Law and Order" co-star S. Epatha Merkerson with the first-ever SunDeis Entertainer of the Year Award, the highlight of the festival weekend.
He is a graduate of one of the United States' most famous academic art schools, the Buffalo Academy For Visual and Preforming Arts for grades 5-12
Appeared in episodes of three different series with 'Jerry Orbach' (qv): _"Law & Order" (1990)_ (qv), _"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999)_ (qv) and _"Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (2001)_ (qv).