Jesse L. Martin

Jesse Lamont Martin (born Jesse Lamont Watkins, born January 18, 1969 in Rocky Mount, Virginia, USA ) is an American film, television and theater actor. His most famous role is that of " Detective Ed Green" in the crime drama Law & Order.

Biography

He was born in Rocky Mount in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the youngest of five sons of a truck driver Jesse Reed Watkins and college counselor Virginia Price. His parents separated when he was a child and he took the family name of a stepfather. Even during his primary school days drew this new family to Buffalo in upstate New York. Due to its distinct Southern accent tended Jesse L. Martin in the school to taciturnity and shyness. However, a teacher persuaded him to a school theater performance of the tale participate " The Golden Goose ". He set there is a pastor and played it with his accent as a Baptist minister of the Southern Baptist Convention.

As a high school he then attended the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts, where he was elected to the most talented actors of the graduating class. After high school he studied at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University theater studies.

After graduation, he went with the theater group by John Houseman on tour. He played this about at the Actors Theatre of Louisville and at the Cleveland Playhouse. After returning to New York he played on smaller stages and appeared in soap operas and commercials. After some time, he received roles on Broadway in part, award-winning pieces. He received in 1998 roles in an independent film, and in a short broadcast series. During a Broadway show he was discovered by David E. Kelley, who was looking for an actor for the role of a new lover for the main character of the series Ally McBeal. He played the role of Dr. Greg Butters there. He also played in the 1999 series The X-Files an alien.

Even as he starred in Ally McBeal he heard that the actor Benjamin Bratt planned the series Law & Order to leave. Jesse L. Martin then asked the producers of the series Dick Wolf to be able to take on the role of Detective Ed Green and got the role. The role of this police officer he played from 1999 to 2008.

Filmography (selection)

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