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Actor producer singer writer. Short's mother was of English and Irish descent.

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Martin Short was born on March 26, in the so-called "lunch bucket" town of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His father was an executive at one of the local steel mills while his mother was a concert violinist. He has three older brothers, David now deceased , Michael, and Brian, and one older sister, Nora. Short attended Westdale Secondary School.

At McMaster University he started as a pre-med student, before switching to social work, but at the same time he was bitten by the acting bug and appeared in many college productions. It was during that production that he met his future wife, comic actress Nancy Dolman. A few years earlier he had been persuaded by his Godspell co-stars Eugene Levy and Dave Thomas to pursue comedy, joining them at the famous improv troupe The Second City in During that time Martin developed many of his now-famous characters, including talk-show host Brock Linehan, based on Canadian interviewer Brian Linehan; albino entertainer Jackie Rogers Jr; current events commentator Troy Soren; shady attorney Nathan Thurm; Wheel of Fortune fan Ed Grimley, perhaps his best known creation; and Jiminy Glick.

These characters would prove even more popular when he introduced them to the season of Saturday Night Live, his addition to the show's line-up helping revive it after the departure of Eddie Murphy.

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An incredible mimic, Martin also drew attention for his uncanny impersonations on the programme, notably of Jerry Lewis and Katharine Hepburn. Martin continued to work in theatre during the Nineties, starring in the musical The Goodbye Girl and in put in a Tony Award-winning performance as the lead in the musical revival of Little Me.

In he launched his satirical one-man show with a full cast of six called Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, which closed in January In recent years, Short has shown more of his dramatic side. Then in , Short joined the cast of the legal drama Damages, starring Glenn Close. Martin Short and his siblings were raised as Catholics.