Steve Martin

 Stephen Glenn Martin was born on August 14, 1945. He is an actor, comedian, and writer from the United States. He has been honored with an Honorary Academy Award in 2013, as well as five Grammy Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2016, he was nominated for two Tony Awards. He has been awarded the Kennedy Center Honors, the Mark Twain Prize, and the 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 best actors never to receive an Academy Award nomination.Martin came to the attention of the public in the early 1960s as a writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award in 1969, and later as an often-repeated host on Saturday Night Live. Martin's humorous and offbeat routines were a hit in the 1970s when he performed them before packed theaters on national tours. Since the 1980s, when he been able to retire from stand-up comedy Martin has become a successful actor, appearing in films like 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). He has also starred in a number of family films that portrayed the patriarch of the family in Parenthood (1989), the Father of the Bride films (1991-1995) as well as the Cheaper by the Dozen films (2003-2005).