Nan Martin, actress in film, television and theater, is dead at 82

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In addition to playing roles in films such as ‘Goodbye Columbus’ and on many television programs, Nan Martin, who died Thursday in Malibu, was an active member of the Southern California theater community. Among her roles: the mother in Sam Shepard’s “Buried Child” at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, and the matriarch in a Los Angeles Theatre Center production of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons.”

Martin appeared numerous times on the South Coast Repertory stage, including a leading role in “Odd Jobs” in 1992, for which she won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, and the role of Miss Helen in South African playwright Athol Fugard’s ‘The Road to Mecca’ in 1989.

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