Happy Birthday Margo Martindale Interviewing the award-winning actress Margo Martindale from Jacksonville, Texas, a few years ago was so much fun. In my cover story appearing July 2016, I start with, “There’s something sweet and saucy and wise all at the same time about Margo Martindale that makes people smile when she enters a room. It’s like she knows something amusing others can’t quite see just yet and they eagerly wait for her to let it out in her friendly East Texas accent and make the world a better place for a few moments.” The very successful actress talked to me about some of her film roles and about growing up in Jacksonville and the thing that struck me most is how she described her hometown and her neighborhood in Manhattan with very similar feelings. Her small town upbringing reminds her a bit of the Upper West Side of Manhattan neighborhood where she’s lived now for 30-plus years, she said. “My block is small town America. It’s a real community. We share births and deaths. Very sweet. We sit on the stoop and before you know it, there’s a party.” That’s what my time with her felt like too — a party, but a small one where everybody cares about and looks out for each other. Made me want to pack my bags and go sit on the stoop with her and get as much of that Margo Martindale vibe as possible. The actress is busier than ever now. She plays a maple syrup farmer in the 2024 series The Sticky which is based on a real-life maple syrup heist. She’s playing the grandmother in an upcoming Paramount+ limited series Unspeakable: The Murder of JonBenet Ramsey. She also recently finished filming Dead Letters, an indie movie where she plays a long-haul trucker, and voiced Mrs. Twit in an animated adaptation of The Twits. — P.A. Geddie Read the full interview in this article. IMAGE: Margo Martindale in The Sticky. Photo by Jan Thijs | 
