Marsai Martin

Actor, Producer, Executive

Birthdate: Aug 14, 2004

Birthplace: Plano, Texas, USA

Marsai Martin (birthname: Caila Marsai Martin) is best known, and has been widely acclaimed, for her role as Diane in the hit comedy series, Black-ish (2014-2022), and began to build her career in features at age 12 with a supporting role in director-writer Cynthia Mort’s Nina Simone biopic, Nina (2016), starring Zoe Saldana (as Simone), David Oyelowo, and Mike Epps.

Martin scored another supporting role in the Althea Jones-directed indie comedy, Fun Mom Dinner (2017), starring Toni Collette, Molly Shannon, Bridget Everett, Katie Aselton, Adam Scott, and Paul Rudd, and premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. Marsai Martin’s first co-starring feature role was in the comedy, Little (2019), on which 14-year-old Martin was also an executive producer, with Regina Hall, Issa Rae, Tone Bell, Rachel Dratch, and Tracee Ellis Ross, and grossing nearly $50 million (over double its budget).

For the first of two animated features, Martin co-starred with Mckenna Grace in the voice cast of DreamWorks Animation’s Spirit Untamed (2021), including the voices of Jake Gyllenhaal, Julianne Moore, Walton Goggins, and Andre Braugher. Martin’s next movie with co-star Grace was PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2023), the sequel to Martin’s first movie with the series based on the TV show, PAW Patrol: The Movie (2021)—both of which were directed and co-written by Cal Brunker, and produced by Nickelodeon/Paramount Pictures.

With the same two companies and in between these projects, Martin was a star-producer (with, among other producers, LeBron James) of the sports family comedy, Fantasy Football (2022), released on Paramount +.

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Martin as Liberty (voice) in 'PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie' (2023)

Martin Callie with Omari Hardwick of 'Fantasy Football' (2022)

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Marsai Martin was born and raised in Plano, Texas by parents Joshua Martin and Carol Martin. Martin is an only child. Martin’s family moved to Los Angeles in 2013, to help advance her professional acting career, which began when she was five years old. Martin’s height is 5’ 2”.

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2023 |
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
2023
PG
1h 28m
Action, Adventure, Animation
6
A magical meteor crash lands in Adventure City and gives the PAW Patrol pups superpowers, transforming them into The Mighty Pups
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asLiberty
2021 |
Paw Patrol: The Movie
Paw Patrol: The Movie
2021
G
1h 26m
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
6.2
Ryder and the pups are called to Adventure City to stop Mayor Humdinger from turning the bustling metropolis into a state of chaos.
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2021 |
Spirit Untamed
Spirit Untamed
2021
PG
1h 28m
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Western
5.5
Lucky Prescott's life is changed forever when she moves from her home in the city to a small frontier town and befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.
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asPrudence Granger
2019 |
Little
Little
2019
PG-13
1h 49m
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
5.5
A woman is transformed into her younger self at a point in her life when the pressures of adulthood become too much to bear.
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asLittle Jordan Sanders

Some Facts About Marsai Martin

And We Quote: Marsai Martin has been quoted as saying, “I want to be a legend.”

Genius: Marsai Martin created her own production company at age 14, and named it Genius Productions, which signed a first-look deal with Universal Pictures in 2019.