Biography

A respected stage, film, television actor and audiobook narrator, Martha was born in New Brunswick, Canada to Ron Irving, a theatre director, and Daphne Irving, an artist. She was raised in Massachusetts where her father taught directing at Boston University, spending summers on Prince Edward Island, Canada. Martha started her theatre career on Prince Edward Island, as a teenager appearing in community theatre productions before starting work professionally at sixteen performing for Lunchtime Theatre for the Confederation Centre of the Arts, as well as the Victoria and Georgetown theatres on PEI during the summers. Her first television job was in "Marshlands" for CBC television, playing a young Acadian girl who falls in love with a British soldier during the expulsion of the Acadians in Nova Scotia. She studied acting at LAMDA in England and then returned to Canada to pursue her acting career. She started in Toronto, where she appeared in the 1988 TV series "The War of the Worlds". Soon after she moved to Halifax, NS where she has had a rich award-winning career onstage and in film and television. She has appeared on stages across Canada and is a co-founder and retired co-artistic director of the award-winning LunaSea Theatre Co. in Halifax.

- IMDb mini biography by: Martha Irving