Mary Martin
Mary Virginia Martin was an American actress and singer. A muse of Rodgers and Hammerstein, she originated many leading roles on stage over her career, including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (1949), the title character in Peter Pan (1954), and Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1959). Over the course of her career, she won four Tony Awards and an Emmy Award.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Weatherford
- Educated at
- Royal College of Art
- Awards
- 🏆 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie🏆 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical🏆 Kennedy Center Honors🏆 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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"Neverland is the way I would like real life to be … timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic."
"Sometimes I think that I cheated my own family and my closest friends by giving to audiences so much of the love I might have kept for them. But that’s the way I was made; I truly don't think I could …"
"I was seventeen years old, a married woman without real responsibilities, miserable about my mixed-up emotions, afraid there was something awfully wrong with me because I didn’t enjoy being a wife. Wo…"
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1913
Born
Birth1990
Died
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