Madeleine Martin

Madeleine Martin (born April 15, 1993 ) is an American actress, known for voicing JoJo Tickle, the title character on the Playhouse Disney children's animated TV series JoJo's Circus and Fionna Campbell in the Cartoon Network series Adventure Time and its Max spin-off Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, and for playing the character Rebecca "Becca" Moody on the Showtime comedy-drama Californication and Shelley Godfrey from the second and third seasons of the Netflix horror series Hemlock Grove.

Early life Martin grew up in New York in the United States. As her mother is from Canada, Martin has dual citizenship of both countries. Martin studied at the School of American Ballet and has an MFA degree from York University. She appeared onstage in The Pillowman alongside Jeff Goldblum and Billy Crudup. She acted in A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden.

Her first appearance on television came in 2003 on Law & Order, where she played the role of Annie for one episode. Also in 2003, she did the voice acting for the main character JoJo, in the cartoon TV series JoJo's Circus. She was a series regular on Disney's Out of the Box. She was called back in 2004 for another episode ("Sick"), on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as April. In 2005, she appeared for one episode on another TV series, Hope & Faith, as Ivana Charles.

She is also known for appearing in several TV commercials, including one for Staples (2004) with Alice Cooper.

In 2006, Martin was a voice actress in Ice Age: The Meltdown, where she voiced several roles. She returned to TV in 2007 to act alongside David Duchovny in the Showtime dramedy Californication as Becca Moody, Duchovny's character's teenage daughter. She performed several songs in Californication including "Only Women Bleed", "Don't Let Us Get Sick", and "Surrender". Martin originated the role of "Jean Fordham" on Broadway in the hit play August: Osage County.

In 2010, she was a co-star alongside John Cena in the WWE Studios film, Legendary. Her performance was heavily criticized.

She voiced Finn's female counterpart, Fionna, in the Adventure Time episodes "Fionna and Cake", "Bad Little Boy", "The Prince Who Wanted Everything", "Five Short Tables" and "Fionna and Cake and Fionna"— and voiced the character in the spin-off series Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake. She also appeared in the Criminal Minds Season 7 episode "Heathridge Manor".

Martin performed in the Atlantic Theater Company's production of Harper Regan in 2012 and on Broadway in Picnic in 2013.

From 2014 to 2016, she played Shelley Godfrey in the second and third seasons of Hemlock Grove and had a guest role on The Good Wife. She performed in the Lincoln Center production of The Harvest in the winter of 2016. In 2019, she portrayed Madeline in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, a recurring character in the third season. The character is a colleague of Abe's (the titular character's father) in his fight in rebellious causes.

Outside of acting, Martin is also an assistant professor at Florida State University.

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