Margot Martindale is an American actress who has been around for many years. In countless roles she has shaped her characters, given them properties and quirks and thus brought them to life.
Her career started in the second half of the eighties, when she was in her mid-thirties. At the end of that decade, we see her again in a series for the first time. Lonesome Dove, a miniseries about a group of Texas Rangers, has the scoop.
The years that followed were mainly devoted to small(r) roles in the film world for Martindale. She can also be seen in one-off roles in Golden Years and New York Undercover. Law & Order and Homicide: Life On The Street follow and are serious series that join them.
At the end of the 1990s, Martindale returns for a number of episodes in As the World Turns. As Judge Rosen, she appears in three episodes in the then long-running soap opera. One Life to Live is the next soap opera, while Snoops and Welcome to New York are more comedies where Martindale plays a character.
Martindale will be cast in a regular, recurring role for the first time on 100 Center Street. A crime series about the life and work of a team of judges in New York. She plays Michelle Grande, who visits this team a lot. Short appearances in Ed, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Medium follow. In addition to these smaller roles in series, Martindale remains mainly active on the big screen, where she already has more than thirty film titles on her resume.
A serious title in serial land is Dexter. The charming, murderous Michael C. Hall also comes into contact with Martindale, who takes on the recurring role of Camilla Figg, working as an archivist with the Miami Metro Police Department.
After a brief appearance on Hung, Martindale also signed on for a recurring role on Mercy, a series about three nurses dealing with the problems of their patients, and their own, at Mercy hospital. Mercy may well be the kick-off to the second part of Martindale's career, which is increasingly focusing on the small screen.
With appearances in Harry's Law, Scalene, Suits and Person of Interest - and recurring roles in Justified and A Gifted Man - she is becoming a fixture in our living rooms. It is also noticeable that the series in which Martindale plays have increasingly bigger names. Outings in Smash, New Girl and Masters of Sex are followed by a permanent leading role in The Millers, a comedy that ultimately lasts two seasons.
More successful is The Americans, which started in the same year and in which Martindale eventually played a regularly recurring supporting role. In the meantime we also see her in Mike & Molly and The Good Wife, among others.
BoJack Horseman is a first contact with voice acting, something that Martindale will pick up frequently shortly afterwards. She can be heard in the new version of DuckTales (2017), Infinity Train, This Duckburg Life and Ada Twist, Scientist.
She plays a much more serious role in Sneaky Pete, the critically acclaimed, comedy crime series from Bryan Cranston (Walter White, Breaking Bad), among others. She follows up her role in Sneaky Pete with a character portrayal in Mrs. America, after which she also appeared in The Good Fight and American Crime Story.
Over the past few years, Martindale has been busy with The Watcher and Your Honor, while she also appeared briefly in Accused. If we look purely at 2024, Martindale comes from a role in Mrs. Davis (2023) rolled and continues happily in The Chicken Sisters and Doctor Odyssey, unfortunately both only moderately rated productions. This year's program includes the mini-production JonBenét Ramsey and the new comedy The Sticky, in which Martindale plays leading actress Ruth Landry - a maple syrup farmer who turns criminal.
So: in that rare case where you have never seen Margo Martindale on your television screen, The Sticky will keep you glued to the edge of your seat with a smile on your face. Have fun and watch!
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