Andrea Martin

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Template:Person Andrea Louise Martin (born January 15, 1947; age Template:Age) is an American actress. She voiced Miss Gristlepuss in the SpongeBob SquarePants season 5 episode "Banned in Bikini Bottom," and Agnes Steelhead in The Patrick Star Show. She is also known for her other voice acting role in voicing Ms. Winifred Fowl in the Nickelodeon Movie, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and its spin-off sequel television series, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.

Early life

Andrea Martin was born in 1947 in Portland, Maine, the eldest of three children of Sybil A. (née Manoogian) and John Papazian Martin (Armenian: Ջոն Փազազյան Մարտին; 1917–2010). Her paternal grandparents were Armenian immigrants from Van, present-day Turkey who escaped the Armenian Genocide. Her maternal grandmother immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 15. Her grandfather, an amateur thespian, changed the family's name from Papazian to Martin. Her maternal grandparents, who were from Constantinople, started the Armenian School at the Chestnut Street Church. Andrea's father owned Martin's Foods, a grocery-store chain. She has mentioned that although her grandparents "did not know what assimilation was," her parents worked very hard to assimilate into the U.S. As such, Martin only started connecting with her ancestral identity later in life.

When she was 2 years old, her mother's leg had broken, so she would often read to her daughter. She and her mother would often take turns reading Shakespeare, Paul Revere's Ride, and Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. She took piano lessons when she was 8, reciting a poem about a kitten at the rotunda of the Portland Art Museum and played the piano there. Martin transferred from Nathan Clifford School to St. Joseph's Academy before entering high school. She graduated from Deering High School in 1965, where she was a member of the Dramatic Club and won Miss Deering High 1965.