Mae Martin

Mae Martin (born 2 May 1987) is a Canadian-born comedian, actor, and screenwriter based in England. They wrote and starred in the Netflix comedy series Feel Good and won two Canadian Comedy Awards as part of the comedy troupe The Young and the Useless. Mae received a nomination for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for their work on Feel Good. Mae Martin was born in Toronto on 2 May 1987, the child of Canadian writer and teacher Wendy Martin and English food writer James Chatto. James, whose parents were actor Tom Chatto and talent agent Ros Chatto, appeared in the 1963 film adaptation of Lord of the Flies as a child and on the West End stage in Jesus Christ Superstar in the 1980s. Martin has an elder brother who is an academic. Their paternal uncle is an artist and actor Daniel Chatto, who is married to Queen Elizabeth II's niece Lady Sarah Chatto. Martin was baptised in a village on the Greek island of Corfu, where their family lived for several years. James and Wendy were ex-hippies and comedy fans and the family home was filled with recordings of British classics (Monty Python’s Flying Circus, The Goon Show, Blackadder) as well as Americans such as Steve Martin.