Jesse L. Martin Biography

Jesse Martin is the youngest 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. 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. The actor attended high school at Buffalo School for the 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 Acting Company. 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.

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