Marsai Martin
Birthdate: August 14, 2004 (22 Years Old)
Birthplace: Plano, Texas, USA
Marsai Martin (birthname: Caila Marsai Martin) is best known, and has been widely acclaimed, for her role as Diane in the hit comedy series, Black-ish (2014-2022), and began to build her career in features at age 12 with a supporting role in director-writer Cynthia Mort’s Nina Simone biopic, Nina (2016), starring Zoe Saldana (as Simone), David Oyelowo, and Mike Epps.
Martin scored another supporting role in the Althea Jones-directed indie comedy, Fun Mom Dinner (2017), starring Toni Collette, Molly Shannon, Bridget Everett, Katie Aselton, Adam Scott, and Paul Rudd, and premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. Marsai Martin’s first co-starring feature role was in the comedy, Little (2019), on which 14-year-old Martin was also an executive producer, with Regina Hall, Issa Rae, Tone Bell, Rachel Dratch, and Tracee Ellis Ross, and grossing nearly $50 million (over double its budget).
For the first of two animated features, Martin co-starred with Mckenna Grace in the voice cast of DreamWorks Animation’s Spirit Untamed (2021), including the voices of Jake Gyllenhaal, Julianne Moore, Walton Goggins, and Andre Braugher. Martin’s next movie with co-star Grace was PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2023), the sequel to Martin’s first movie with the series based on the TV show, PAW Patrol: The Movie (2021)—both of which were directed and co-written by Cal Brunker, and produced by Nickelodeon/Paramount Pictures.
With the same two companies and in between these projects, Martin was a star-producer (with, among other producers, LeBron James) of the sports family comedy, Fantasy Football (2022), released on Paramount +.
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Personal life
Known For
Black-ish
Diane Johnson, Dolly (2014)
An American Girl Story: Melody 1963 - Love Has to Win
Melody Ellison (2016)
Awards
Four-time Winner, YoungStars Award, BET Awards (2019-2020, 2022-2023); Nominee, Best Comedic Performance, MTV Movie + TV Awards (2019); Eleven-time Winner, Best Supporting Actress—Comedy Series/Best Performance by a Youth (Series, Special, TV Movie or Limited Series)/Best Breakthrough Motion Picture Performance/Best Supporting Actress-Motion Picture, NAACP Image Awards (2016-2021); Two-time Nominee, Best Ensemble—Comedy Series, Screen Actors Guild Awards (2017, 2018); Winner, Best Supporting Young Actress-TV Series, Young Artist Award (2016).
Marsai Martin Movies
Actor
Previous (5)
- 2023 |
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
asLiberty
A magical meteor falls in Adventure City and gives the PAW Patrol superpowers, transforming them into the Mighty Pups. But they face their most powerful challenge when Humdinger teams up with a mad scientist to steal their powers.
- 2021 |
Spirit Untamed
asPrudence Granger
Lucky Prescott's life is changed forever when she moves from her home in the city to a small frontier town and befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.
- 2021 |
PAW Patrol: The Movie
asLiberty
Ryder and the PAW Patrol pups are called to Adventure City in order to stop the recently-elected Mayor Humdinger from wreaking havoc.
- 2019 |
- -- | as Liberty
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