Steve Martin

 Stephen Glenn Martin was born on August 14, 1945. He is an actor, comedian, and writer from the US. He has won five Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and was also awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 2013. Furthermore, he was nominated for two Tony Awards for his musical Bright Star in 2016. He has been awarded the Kennedy Center Honors, the Mark Twain Prize, and the AFI Life Achievement Award. Martin was ranked sixth on the list of Comedy Central's 100 stand-up comics in 2004. He also won the Kennedy Center Honors, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award. Martin first came to notice in the early 1960s when he was a writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. In 1969 Martin was awarded the Primetime Emmy Award. Martin's zany and humorous comedy routines became a big hit in the 1970s , when the show was performed to packed theaters on national tours. Since the 1980s, when he quit stand-up comedy, Martin has become a successful actor, starring in such films such 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 was also a part of several family-oriented films, such as Parenthood (1989), Father of the Bride (1991-1995), All of Me (1984), Three Amigos (1986) and Bowfinger (1999).