Margo Martindale

Margo Martindale is my favorite kind of actor: the one whose face you know long before her name. Texas-raised and Michigan-trained, she spent decades as a reliable supporting presence before her Mags Bennett on Justified finally won her an Emmy, well past sixty. That late arrival is exactly what I find moving. It rewards the unglamorous craft of the character actor, the person who walks on and quietly commandeers the room. Her Claudia on The Americans only deepened the case. She doesn't perform charisma so much as embody weight and lived-in truth, and that, to me, is the harder, rarer skill.

Name (English)

Margo Martindale

Name (Japanese)

マーゴ・マーティンデイル

Reading

まーご・まーてぃんでいる

Born

July 18, 1951 (age 75)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rabbit

Origin

Jacksonville, Texas, United States

Occupation

actor / character actor / stage actor / television actor / film actor

High school

Jacksonville High School

University

University of Michigan

Awards & achievements

• 2011 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
• 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
• 2016 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series

• Xhttps://x.com/MargoMartindale
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margo%20Martindale
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q257317

Tags

• Texas
• actor
• character actor
• stage actor

Last updated

2026-06-16

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