Andrew Kenneth Martin

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Andrew Kenneth Martin is a Canadian born actor and native from Waterloo, Ontario. He is a director, photographer, cinematographer and visual artist and appeared in the series Train 48 (2003-2005) as Charles Lucas West-Matheson (Lucas West).

Beginning his career in the arts at the National Ballet School of Canada in 1983, Andrew Kenneth Martin continues to creatively contribute his talents on and off screen. A filmmaker in the truest sense of the word, Andrew blurs the roles of producing, writing and directing, working to push the limits of conventional filmmaking. His unique visual style began in film school at the University of Western Ontario and at Sheridan College. Afterwards, Andrew began working diligently on set: commercials, music videos, feature films and television. Eventually he came to direct the dark erotic thriller The Colleague, where he experimented with the maximum potential of the emerging digital technology. Since this debut, he has continued to be involved with all facets of the filmmaking process (being especially passionate about independent cinema), challenging himself and others which led to his first feature creation Magnus Opus The Movie. This improvised feature film is a hilarious, “off the wall serious” mockcumentary about a tortured performance artist and his messianic mission to inspire the world of art. Magnus Opus received an official selection at the Philadelphia Film Festival and will be making its Canadian debut at the Canadian Filmmakers Festival in Toronto this year.

Next Andrew directed and DOP’d an experimental music video for Raoul and the Big Time, COLD OUTSIDE, which has been getting regular rotation on COOL TV.

Recently, Andrew’s directorial talents and vision have gained him employment in the television medium, where he moved behind the camera directing Train 48 for Protocol Entertainment and Global Television. Here his acting experience and directing skills were wonderfully fused together and applied to this innovative improvised TV series. Next he lent his vision to Chris & John's Road Trip!, an amusing, half-hour reality comedy series debuting in 2005 on OUTtv. Andrew thrived in this run-and-gun, fast-paced shooting environment where anything can happen and usually does.

With his experience behind the camera and his success in front, Andrew is well equipped to find creative solutions and great performances from a variety of challenging situations. With a keen sense of timing, enthusiastic leadership skills and unique visual sensibility, Andrew is poised to be a great addition to any creative team.

Andrew’s experiences in many areas of the industry have enhanced his ability to formulate an overall vision for a project, seeing the big picture clearly. After optioning a script to Random Harvest in the UK in 2003, Andrew is working on his third feature film script. Along with this, Andrew has been deeply involved in digital cinematography. Before his additional cinematography and editing duties on Magnus Opus, Andrew lent his cinematographic skills to another feature film entitled Redeemed Believer’s Banquet Hall, a dark comedy directed by Allison Smith/SIO Media Productions, released in 2004. With two spec ads to his credit, one will find Andrew’s talents refreshing, diverse and creative. In Train 48, It's also been humourly said that he looks like the canadian version of Actor Hugh Jackman.

Currently pitching a number of television and film properties and working as an actor, Andrew keeps busy establishing his creative abilities in Canada and the USA.