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Martha Campbell Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) is an American stage, film, and television actress, singer, and former model. Her feature film debut was in ''The River Rat'' (1984) before rising to prominence in the Richard Donner film ''The Goonies'' (1985). She has also appeared in ''The Mosquito Coast'' (1986), ''Running on Empty'' (1988), ''Parenthood'' (1989), ''Raising Hope'' (2010) and ''Small Town Murder Songs'' (2011). She is recognized on Broadway for her roles in ''The Coast of Utopia '' (2006–2007), ''Top Girls'' (2007–2008), ''Pal Joey'' (2008–2009) and ''Shining City'' (2006–2007). She has performed in theatre productions of ''The Playboy of the Western World'', ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', ''The Glass Menagerie'', ''The Sisters Rosensweig'', and ''Uncle Vanya''. She returned to Broadway in the fall of 2014 in a revival of ''A Delicate Balance'' co-starring Glenn Close and John Lithgow.〔http://www.broadwaybox.com/daily-scoop/what-play-can-come-along-that-will-be-more-star-studded-than-this/〕 Plimpton most recently played Virginia Chance on the Fox sitcom ''Raising Hope'', which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=FOX Broadcasting Company – Raising Hope – Bios )〕 She has also received three Tony Award nominations as well as a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2002. She won an Emmy for the same category in 2012 as attorney Patti Nyholm in the CBS legal drama ''The Good Wife''. ==Early life== Plimpton was born in New York City. She is the daughter of actors Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton. Her parents met while performing in the original Broadway run of ''Hair''.〔Yuan, Jada. ("92 Minutes With Martha Plimpton" ) ''New York Magazine'', July 31, 2011〕 Her paternal grandfather was actor John Carradine.〔Erickson, Hal. ("Keith Carradine Biography" ) nytimes.com, accessed March 22, 2015〕〔Kennedy, Mark. ("For Martha Plimpton, Acting Is Really the Only Choice" ) latimes.com, January 11, 2002〕 She is a "very distant" cousin of writer and editor George Plimpton,〔Adams, Cindy ("Cousins Who Miss, Kiss, Hiss and Dismiss" ) ''The New York Post,'' July 24, 2009 "Martha Plimpton on cousin George Plimpton: "There was no Plimpton competition. We encouraged each other. People see the Plimptons as stodgy, but there's this whole other Plimpton branch that's different. We're not all bankers."〕 and, despite the different spelling, cartoonist Bill Plympton.〔Plympton, Bill http://www.plymptoons.com/scrapbook/scrap101609.html "But through my beautiful and talented cousin, Martha Plimpton (the star of Broadway), David, her uncle, was kind enough to do a starring voice in my wonderful film "Hair High."〕 She attended the Professional Children's School in Manhattan.〔Ryzik, Melena. ("So Odd, but Lately in Classic Fashion" ), ''The New York Times'', November 25, 2007. Retrieved November 25, 2007. "ON a break from rehearsals for 'Cymbeline' at Lincoln Center Martha Plimpton dashed outside for a cigarette and immediately ran into a classmate from her alma mater, the nearby Professional Children’s School."〕 Her first stage appearance was when her mother brought her on stage in costume for the curtain call of the short-lived Broadway play ''The Leaf People'' then another play in ''The Ass and the Heart''.〔("Working in the Theatre" ) April 2004 panel discussion at American Theatre Wing〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Martha Plimpton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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