Jessica Martin

Jessica Martin (born 25 August 1962 in Fulham, London, England) is an actor and comedian. She is probably best known for her work as an impressionist and voice artist on the television series Spitting Image, impersonating the voice of Her Majesty The Queen. She also appeared on Yorkshire Television's 3-2-1 in the 1980s with impressionist Aiden J. Harvey.

Jessica has also done voices on PC Pinkerton, Faeries, Junglies and Romuald the Reindeer.

She appeared in the Doctor Who serial The Greatest Show in the Galaxy and some of The Krypton Factor observation rounds in 1988. Martin provides voice acting for the English language version of the PlayStation 2 game Dragon Quest VIII, most notably as Empyrea.

In 2004 Jessica recorded a song for the CD Weird & Wonderful - A Collection Of Songs by Alexander S. Bermange celebrating weirdos and weirdness, featuring sixteen West End stars (released on Dress Circle Records). In 2008, she joined author and columnist Mark Steyn to release a cover of It's a Marshmallow World, a holiday song first popularized by Bing Crosby.[1]

Martin also provided the voice for The Queen in the Christmas Special of BBC1's Doctor Who "Voyage of the Damned" broadcast on Christmas Day , 2007.

Jessica Martin is a patron of The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America and performed at the 50th anniversary Memorial Service for Lupino Lane at St Paul's Covent Garden.

Roles

Television

• Noel Coward’s Tonight At 8.30 (BBC 1) 1992
• Doctor Who (BBC 1) 1988
• Spitting Image (Central Independent Television) 1985-87
• Royal Variety Shows (LWT) 1987 and 1986
• Bobby Davro’s T.V Weekly (Television South) 1986-88
• Sunday Night At The London Palladium (LWT) 1986
• Copycats (LWT) 1985

Film

• Shalom dir. Martin Kerem 2005
• The Garden dir. Derek Jarman 1990

Cabaret & One Woman Show

• All American Songbook (2 Temple Place) 4th July 2007
• My Heart Stood Still (St. James's Palace) dir. Christopher Luscombe 2007
• A Marvellous Party (St. James's Palace) dir. Christopher Luscombe 2006
• Jessica Martin cabaret (The Ritz Hotel, London) 2006
• Jessica Martin cabaret (Corporate –’72 Club’ Radisson Edwardian, London) 2006
• Jessica Martin & John Barrowman cabaret (Highgrove) 2006
• A Marvellous Party (Highgrove) dir. Christopher Luscombe 2005
• Sunset Bitch (New York International Fringe Festival) dir. Robert Howie 2005
• Blame It On My Youth (Don’t Tell Mama – New York and Jermyn Street Theatre, London) dir. Robert Howie 2003
• Let’s Kick Arts (Bridewell Theatre) dir. Don Leaver 2002
• Veronique–A Lifelong Cult (Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival) dir. Robert Howie 2001

Radio Roles

• Barbra Streisand in Jack Rosenthal’s Last Act (BBC Radio 4) dir. Maureen Lipman 2006
• Alma Cogan in Stage Mother, Sequinned Daughter (BBC Radio 4) dir. Marilyn Imrie 2002
• I Can Do That (BBC Radio 4) dir. Bruce Hyman 1999
• Glossies (BBC Radio 4) dir. Sally Flatman 1996
• Ned Sherrin’s Review of Revues (BBC Radio 2) 1995
• Cybil Liberty (BBC Radio 2) dir. Dirk Maggs 1992

Theatre Roles

• Lady of the Lake (Spamalot) UK Tour 2011.
• Unnatural Acts (Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Festival) dir. David Giles 2007
• The UnAmerican Songbook (Theatre Museum) dir. Denis King
• Tracey Beaker Gets Real (Nottingham Playhouse & national tour) dir. David Newman 2006
• Danny and Sylvia (Jermyn Street Theatre, London) dir. Kenn Oldfield 2005
• Taste The Love (Jermyn Street Theatre, London) dir. Paul Rogan 2004
• Exclusive Yarns (Wimbledon Studio Theatre at the New Wimbledon Theatre) dir. Andrew Wood 2004
• Me, Myself and I (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond) dir. Kim Grant 2003
• Larkin With Women (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry) dir. David Giles 2003
• Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd (Bridewell Theatre, London) dir. Richard Jordan 2001

Lost Musicals

• • Something For The Boys
  • Leave It To Me
  • I Can Get It For You Wholesale
  • On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
  • Finian’s Rainbow
  • One Touch Of Venus
  • Fifty Million Frenchmen
  • The Lost Musicals Gala hosted by Kitty Carlisle Hart and Anne Kaufman Schneider
  • Silk Stockings
• Trudy in A Saint She Ain’t (The King’s Head, Islington) dir. Ned Sherrin 1999
• Candida (New End Theatre) dir. David Evans Rees 1998
• The Surprise Party (Nuffield Theatre at the University of Southampton & national tour) dir. Patrick Sanford 1997
• Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (Churchill Theatre, Bromley & national tour) dir. David Taylor 1997
• Mabel Normand in Mack and Mabel (Piccadilly Theatre, London) dir. Paul Kerryson 1996
• Swingtime Canteen (The King’s Head, Islington) dir. Robert Howie 1995
• Lonely Hearts (Old Fire Station Theatre, Oxford) dir. Stephen Rayne 1995
• The Court Jester (Croydon Warehouse Theatre) dir. Ted Craig 1994
• Shakers (Nottingham Playhouse) dir. Jane Thornton 1994
• Ruth in The Card (Maynardville Open-Air Theatre, Regent’s Park) dir. Ian Talbot 1994
• Gussie in The Case of the Dead Flamingo Dancer (Churchill Theatre, Bromley) dir. Martin Connor 1992
• Sally Smith in Me and My Girl (Adelphi Theatre, London and national tour) dir. Mike Ockrent 1989-92
• Bunny in Babes in Arms (Maynardville Open-Air Theatre, Regent’s Park) dir. Ian Talbot 1988
• Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (Theatre Royal, Plymouth, and national tour) dir. Andrew McKinnon 1988

External links

• Official website
• Jessica Martin at the Internet Movie Database

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