Martha Plimpton

Name: Martha Plimpton
Date of Birth: November 16, 1970
Place of Birth: New York, New York, USA

Mini-bio: She has show biz in her blood. Martha Plimpton was born November 16, 1970, in New York City to two actors: Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton. Martha began her career at age 8, when her mom had a fr...( read more)

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Martha Plimpton mini-bio: She has show biz in her blood. Martha Plimpton was born November 16, 1970, in New York City to two actors: Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton. Martha began her career at age 8, when her mom had a friend of hers, composer Elizabeth Swados, enroll her in an actors' workshop. At age 10, she got a small part in Rollover (1981), and also made a series of Calvin Klein commercials.

Her first substantial film role was as a tomboy in The River Rat (1984); the following year, Steven Spielberg cast her in The Goonies (1985). She had a small part in The Mosquito Coast (1986), but it established her as a serious actress. Martha appeared in movies such as the screwball comedy Stars and Bars (1988) and in Running on Empty the same year.

As if making movies didn't keep her busy enough, Martha frequently worked at theaters and made her Chicago debut with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company Ensemble in "The Libertine" in 1996. As a member of that ensemble, she received a National Medal of Arts award in the autumn of 1998. As for movies, Colin Fitz (1997) and Eye of God (1997) in which she plays the starring role, have been run at the Sundance Film Festival.

Perhaps recalling how important acting lessons were to her as a child, she donates her time and efforts to the "52nd Street Project" which is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to matching the inner-city children with professional theater artists to create original theater, by writing, directing and performing their own plays.

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Hair High (G, 2004)
Searching for Debra Winger (R, 2002)
The Sleepy Time Gal (R, 2001)
200 Cigarettes (R, 1999)
Pecker (R, 1998)
Music From Another Room (PG-13, 1997)
Eye Of God (R, 1997)
I'm Not Rappaport (PG-13, 1996)
I Shot Andy Warhol (R, 1996)
Beautiful Girls (R, 1996)

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