Her best known operate was on the sketch comedy television series Second City Television. Her better known recurring role thereon was Edith Prickley, the flamboyant television producer at the tv station within Melonville. She likewise played Wanda the Word Fairy in numerous short segments in Sesame Street.

One of Martin's number one large roles wwhen as a studious sorority sister Phyllis in the 1974 American slasher Black Christmas. More far-famed roles include Aunt Voula in the popular film My Big Fat Greek Wedding; manager Phyllis Stein in the film version of the rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Moogie, Quark's iconoclastic mother on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; and a todays waitress on the Bounty paper towel TV commercials. Fans of The Simpsons may also recognize Martin when a voice of Apu's mother, who appears in the episode "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons."

Inside 1992, she processed her Broadway debut when Alice Miller, King Kaiser's previous performing parter turned comedy writer, in the musical comedy My Favorite Year. the performance earned Martin a Tony award. Inside 2005 she hosted a Twenty-fifth Annual Genie Awards. Along sustaining a rest of SCTV she received a Earle Grey Award at the Gemini's in 1995. Late within a equivalent month, Martin played the a share of Golde in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway opposite Harvey Fierstein.

She has 2 sons by using ex-ex Bob Dolman, Joe & Jack.