Working for Nintendo since 1991, Martinet started voicing Mario at video game trade shows in which attendees would walk up to a TV screen displaying a 3-D Mario head that was designed to move around the screen and hold full conversations with them. He says that Gremio from William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew was an inspiration for his portrayal of Mario. Martinet has also stated that he kept on talking with his Mario voice until the audition tape ran out. He then thought to himself that it would be too harsh for children to hear, so he made it more soft-hearted and friendly, resulting in what Mario's voice is today. At first Martinet planned to talk like a stereotypical Italian American with a deep, raspy voice. The directors let him audition and told him, "You're an Italian plumber from Brooklyn".
Charles Martinet walked in and asked, "Can I please read for this?". He went to the audition at the last minute as the casting directors were already putting away their equipment. Martinet earned the job as Mario's voice at Nintendo when, one day, he was told by his friend that there was going to be an audition at a trade show in which auditioneers "talk to people as a plumber". He went on to become a founding member of the San Jose Repertory Theatre for four years. Upon returning to California he joined the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. After training with the Berkeley Rep for several years, Martinet went to London to attend the Drama Studio London, where among other skills, he discovered his talent for accents and dialects. Įventually, Martinet earned an apprenticeship at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. His first role was a monologue from the Spoon River Anthology. A friend suggested to him to take acting classes to combat his fear of public speaking. In his senior year, he decided to discontinue his studies after a tutor told him to "regurgitate information he'd written in his book, chapter-by-chapter". Martinet attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he originally intended to study international law. He attended the American School of Paris and graduated in 1974. His family moved to Barcelona when he was 12 years old, and later to Paris. His mother's family had been in the country since the Mayflower voyages, and his father's family had immigrated from France shortly after World War I, in which Charles' grandfather had served.
Martinet was born on September 17, 1955, in San Jose, California. He currently resides in the Netherlands with his partner. Martinet, having spent a large portion of his youth in Europe, speaks fluent French and Spanish, as well as some Italian. Martinet is also known for his portrayal of Parthurnaax in 2011's The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, as well as Magenta in 2022's Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero.
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He is also the voice of other characters in the series such as Wario, Waluigi, and their baby equivalents. Charles Martinet ( / ˈ m ɑːr t ɪ n eɪ/, French: born September 17, 1955) is an American actor, who has been portraying both Mario and Luigi in the Super Mario video game series since 1991.
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