Steve Martin

 Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian and writer. He is also a producer, writer, and musician. He has received five Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and was also awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 2013. Furthermore the actor was nominated for two Tony Awards for his musical Bright Star in 2016. As well as numerous honors Martin has been awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the Kennedy Center Honors and an AFI Life Achievement Award. Comedy Central placed Martin sixth on its list of stand-up comics with 100 performances. The Guardian named him one of the top actors to have earned an Academy Award nomination.Martin came to public notice in the 1960s as a writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in which he was awarded an Primetime Emmy Award in 1969 and then as a frequent host on Saturday Night Live. Martin's humorous and offbeat routines became a hit during the 1970s when they were performed in full theaters on national tour. Since the 1980s, when he quit stand-up comedy, Martin has been a successful actor, playing in such films as The Jerk (1979), Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982), The Man with Two Brains (1983), All of Me (1984), Three Amigos (1986), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), L.A. Story (1991), Bowfinger (1999) and Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003). Martin has also appeared in a number of family films that portrayed the patriarch of the family in Parenthood (1989), the Father of the Bride films (1991-1995) and the Cheaper by the Dozen films (2003-2005).