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.
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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.
Career
At age seven, Martin appeared in the Broadway National Tour of The Sound of Music with Richard Chamberlain. Two years later she portrayed young Cosette in the Broadway National Tour of Les Miserables. She appeared on Broadway in the title role in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg at the age of 10; her acclaimed performance gave her the opportunity to be the youngest presenter in history at the 2003 Tony Awards. The New York Times profiled her when she was 12 years old. 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.
