Ursula Martinez

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ursula Martinez
Occupation	Actor
Date Of Birth	Oct 13, 1966(1966-10-13)
Age	58
Birthplace	United Kingdom
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Capricorn

Ursula Martinez Biography

Ursula Martinez is one of the most popular and richest Actor who was born on October 13, 1966 in United Kingdom, United Kingdom. Ursula Martinez (born 1966) is a British theatre maker, performer and director. She grew up in South London, the daughter of an English father and Spanish mother, both teachers.

In 2003 Martinez and Whitelaw created OAP which confronted Martinez’s fear of ageing. The publicity read: ‘Single, childless and fast approaching 40, Martinez anticipates a sad and lonely old age. Will she become a wise and respected old sage, or a dreary old hag who goes on and on about how she used to be a cutting edge performance artist.’

In 2006 Martinez performed A Family Outing, Show Off and OAP at the Barbican as a trilogy of autobiographical work entitled Me Me Me! Lyn Gardner decsribed the trilogy as ‘highly complex investigations into reality and fiction, autobiography and lies, and the nature of identity itself, her own most of all.’

In 2006 a recording of the act was illicitly posted online and overnight became a viral sensation. It has since been viewed by millions of people all over the world, and is still in circulation over a decade later.

Martinez is an associate artist with Duckie, the ‘post gay’ performance collective, with whom she has collaborated on numerous projects over 20 years. In 2002 she co-created Duckie’s C’est Vauxhall, originally staged at the Vauxhall Tavern, and renamed C’est Barbican when it transferred there during Christmas 2003. The show won the 2004 Olivier award for Best Entertainment. Renamed C’est Duckie, it subsequently toured to Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Sydney (Opera House), Berlin, Tokyo, Kyoto and New York.

Ursula Martinez Net Worth

Ursula Martinez is one of the richest Actor from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ursula Martinez 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Martinez’s first theatre show was A Family Outing in 1998, co-written with and directed by Mark Whitelaw. In this personal, autobiographical show, Martinez ‘unpicked family life, myths and relationships with the help of her Mum and Dad who appeared alongside her on stage’. In the Guardian, Lyn Gardner wrote that the show was ‘a seemingly improvised but cunningly orchestrated psychodrama about the pleasures, pains and embarrassments of family relationships in a format that is part game show, part Jerry Springer and part family photo album.’. In the Independent, Maggie O’Farrell described the A Family Outing as ‘hilarious, devilish and brilliant: Martinez has, if you like created a new theatrical genre.’

Collaborating again with director Mark Whitelaw, Martinez’s second theatre piece Show Off (2000), examined ‘the myth of celebrity and … the notion of identity and the performing ego, both on and off stage’.

Hanky Panky was described in the Daily Telegraph as ‘one of the most inventive striptease routines ever devised’. The act brought Martinez international notoriety after she performed it in La Clique in the Famous Spiegeltent during Edinburgh Fringe in 2004. After attending a performance, Maureen Lipman wrote in the Guardian: ‘I couldn’t imagine that removing a jacket, skirt and underwear with a bolshie attitude could be that empowering. She…finished by removing it from a place that brought howls of appreciation from every corner of the roundest of venues. Like Gypsy Rose before her, Ms Martinez had the last laugh on generations of the exploitations of her sex.’

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Martinez’s next show, in 2016, was another confessional, called Free Admission (‘a pun on the fact that I freely admit things’).. In the show, she talked about social media, feminism, anal hygiene, the playground racism of 1970’s singing games, her father’s death in hospital and the failing NHS, and her mother’s escape from the Spanish Civil War as a three-year-old. While revealing herself through stories, Martinez built a literal ‘fourth wall’, using cement and concrete blocks, between herself and the audience. She learned to do this by taking a bricklaying course: ‘Saturday mornings in south London, me and 15 other fortysomething, slightly balding, slightly overweight, suburban heterosexual men looking to put a barbie in their back gardens. I didn’t have the courage to tell them why I was there.’

Facts & Trivia

Ursula Ranked on the list of most popular Actor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Ursula Martinez celebrates birthday on October 13 of every year.

In 2019, Martinez set out to recreate her first ever show with A Family Outing – 20 Years On. She had to do this without her father, Arthur, who died in 2009, while her mother, Milagros Lea, with early stage dementia, could no longer remember her lines. In the recreation, mother and daughter sit side by side on a sofa, watching the original performance on a television set while it is simultaneously projected on a large screen for the audience. Lyn Gardner described it as ‘a show marked by absence …(and) by what time does to our bodies and our minds. It makes time tangible, something you can touch….In the original, Martinez is very much the daughter, now she is more like a parent to her own mother….Watching it in the company of my daughter, it made me think about my own family and those we have lost along the way, and because there is something deeply moving about seeing a show which has clearly cost its creator something more than just time and money.’

How old is Ursula Martinez?

About 56 years (1966)

Who is the female magician who strips on stage?

Ursula Martinez steps on to a podium to perform the final part of Hanky Panky, the magic strip tease that has made her a cult figure. There is a second of total silence. You’d think she’d whipped a pistol out.