Mr.

Steve Martin

Independent
Actor; Writer (novelist; playwright); Musician (instrumentalist)
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Performing Arts
Elected
2010
Grammy and Emmy award-winning actor, comedian and writer; 2007 Kennedy Center Honoree. Featured in forty films; author of the play Picasso at the Lapin Agile (1993), essays collected in Pure Drivel (1998), fiction including Shopgirl (2000) and The Pleasure of My Company (2003), and memoir Born Standing Up (2007). Deeply committed to advancing the arts and writing in America. Awarded the 2005 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
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