He was proud but critical, with Martin later recalling that in his teens his feelings for his father were mostly of hatred. Expressing his affection through gifts, like cars and bikes, Martin's father was stern, and not emotionally open to his son. During World War II, in the United Kingdom, Martin's father had appeared in a production of Our Town with Raymond Massey. One of his earliest memories is of seeing his father, as an extra, serving drinks onstage at the Call Board Theatre on Melrose Place. Martin was a cheerleader of Garden Grove High School.
Martin is of English, Scottish, Welsh, Scots-Irish, German, and French descent, and was raised in Inglewood, California with his sister, and then later in Garden Grove, California, in a Baptist family. Martin was born on Aug in Waco, Texas, the son of Mary Lee (née Stewart 1913–2002) and Glenn Vernon Martin (1914–1997), a real estate salesman and aspiring actor. Steve Martin as a senior in high school, 1963 His first solo music album, The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo (2009) received the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album.
While he has played banjo since an early age, and included music in his comedy routines from the beginning of his professional career, he has increasingly dedicated his career to music since the 2000s, acting less and spending much of his professional life playing banjo, recording, and touring with various bluegrass acts, including Earl Scruggs, with whom he won a Grammy for Best Country Instrumental Performance in 2002. Martin is also known for writing the book and lyrics to the musical Bright Star (2016) and the comedy Meteor Shower (2017), both of which premiered on Broadway.
In 2021, he co-created and starred in the Hulu comedy series Only Murders in the Building, a performance which earned him his sixth Golden Globe nomination. He has also starred as the family patriarch in Parenthood (1989), the Father of the Bride films (1991–1995), and the Cheaper by the Dozen films (2003–2005). Story (1991), Bowfinger (1999) and Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003). Since the 1980s, having retired from stand-up comedy, Martin has become a successful actor, starring in such films as The Jerk (1979), Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982), The Man with Two Brains (1983), Three Amigos (1986), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), L.A.
In the 1970s, Martin performed his offbeat, absurdist comedy routines before sold-out theaters on national tours. Martin came to public notice in the 1960s as a writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and later as a frequent host on Saturday Night Live. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Martin at sixth place in a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics. Among many honors, he has received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the Kennedy Center Honors, and an AFI Life Achievement Award. He has won five Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and was awarded an Honorary Academy Award at the Academy's 5th Annual Governors Awards in 2013. Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician.