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America Martin

America Martin is a Los Angeles-born painter and actor whose career has been shaped most visibly by her work in visual art. Born on July 7, 1980, Martin began exhibiting early, holding her first solo show in Beverly Hills in 2002. Since then, her paintings have appeared in solo and group exhibitions and have been collected internationally. Martin’s path does not follow the usual screen-first outline of an actor biography. Acting is one part of her creative identity, while painting has supplied the clearest milestones of her public career. Her work has been represented across the United States and Canada, including in Los Angeles, New York City, Austin, Laguna Beach, Santa Barbara, Taos, Maine, New Jersey and Ontario. That reach gives her career a geographic breadth while keeping Southern California close to its center. In 2009, Martin received a residency at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art, supported by a grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission. The residency stands as a significant point in a career already built around sustained exhibition rather than a single defining moment. Since 2017, her work has also been displayed in American embassies through the US State Department’s Art in Embassies program. For movie audiences, Martin remains a figure whose acting work sits alongside a substantial life in painting rather than replacing it. There are no America Martin films connected to Please Rewind yet, so her place on the Talent Wall begins with the wider creative picture: a Los Angeles artist working across disciplines, with an exhibition history that has carried her art well beyond her hometown.