Martha Plimpton

Martha Plimpton is my favorite kind of success story: the child actor who chose craft over celebrity and won. After The Goonies made her a familiar face, she could have chased teen stardom; instead she built a stage career serious enough to earn three Tony nominations, then collected an Emmy almost casually for guest work. There is a flinty New York intelligence in everything she does, the air of someone who would rather be good than famous. In an industry that burns through young actresses, Plimpton's four-decade run feels like quiet defiance, and I find her durability more impressive than most stars' peaks.

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Name (English)

Martha Plimpton

Name (Japanese)

マーサ・プリンプトン

Reading

まーさ・ぷりんぷとん

Born

November 16, 1970 (age 55)

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

television actor / film actor / stage actor / singer / model

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Dog

Awards & achievements

• 2012 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series

• Official sitehttps://www.marthaplimpton.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Plimpton
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BB%E3%83%97%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%97%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q267383

Tags

• New York
• television actor
• film actor
• stage actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.