Martin Covert

History

Martin Covert, a New Orleans native, has recently appeared as a supporting actor in a number of high-profile film and television projects. Prior to beginning his screen work, he boasted an extensive stage career spanning the decades since his debut with Nancy Staub's Puppet Theater at Gallery Circle Theatre in the French Quarter in 1966. His theatrical credits include many years at the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane where he appeared as Polonius in Hamlet, Casca in Julius Caesar, Porter in Macbeth, the Duke of Cornwall in King Lear and many other supporting roles. His work with the Dog and Pony Theatre at New Orleans City Park includes Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Fool in King Lear and Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream. He has also worked with the acclaimed NOLA Project and in historic New Orleans premieres of The Laramie Project, The Iceman Cometh, Tennessee Williams' Small Craft Warnings and Shut Up Sweet Charlotte with Varla Jean Merman.

Profile

Movies

The Dirt

Stage Manager

The story of Mötley Crüe and their rise from the Sunset Strip club scene of the early 1980s to superstardom.

Christmas Cupid's Arrow

Mr. Willinger

Holly, a professor at a small college, has had a long history of finding the wrong guy. She’s accomplished quite a bit in her life, but after her younger sister announces she is pregnant, Holly decides she is going to make an effort to meet Mr. Right. Meanwhile, David, another professor, is a single father, very smart and kind, but not the type that Holly takes notice of when the two are assigned to plan the Christmas Formal. At the insistence of her best friend, Holly signs up for the dating website “Cupid’s Arrow,” where she meets Josh, an attorney just hired by the school. He’s everything she wants on the surface, but has little to say beyond his work and good looks. Josh and David were roommates in college, so Josh recruits David to write poetic messages in an attempt to win Holly over.

Blaze

Rabbi

Re-imagining the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting Texas legend.

The Domestics

Wrenhaus Desk Clerk

A young husband and wife must fight to return home in a post-apocalyptic mid-western landscape ravaged by gangs.

For Love

Dr. Gerrard

A woman grieving over the death of her fiance gets a mysterious phone call from him.

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Art Teacher

When Major Susan Turner is arrested for treason, ex-investigator Jack Reacher undertakes the challenging task to prove her innocence and ends up exposing a shocking conspiracy.

Kidnapping Mr. Heineken

Bookkeeper

The true story of the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, the grandson of the founder of the Heineken brewery, and his driver. They were released after a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders was paid.

Focus

Doctor

Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.

Dallas Buyers Club

Ian

Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.