Ray Martin (television presenter)
| Ray Martin | |
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Martin at an autographing session, 2011
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| Born |
Raymond George Grace 20 December 1944 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia |
| Residence | Sydney |
| Occupation | Journalist, television presenter |
| Years active | 1969–present |
| Known for |
Four Corners This Day Tonight Midday with Ray Martin (1985–1993) Ray Martin Presents Up Close and Personal The Ray Martin Show 60 Minutes Carols by Candlelight (1990–2007) A Current Affair (1994–98; 2003–05) |
| Spouse(s) | Dianne Martin |
| Awards | Gold Logie Award (1987; 1993–96) for his role on Midday and A Current Affair |
Raymond George "Ray" Martin AM (born 20 December 1944) is a five-time Gold Logie winning Australian television journalist and entertainment personality. He is best known for his various on-air roles on Channel Nine from 1978. In 2011 he returned to Current Affairs 60 Minutes in a part-time capacity.
He was born Raymond George Grace into an Irish-Australian Catholic family in Richmond, New South Wales, Australia. He was the youngest of four children and their only son. His mother changed the family surname to Martin to prevent her abusive, alcoholic husband from finding her and their children after they fled from him in c. 1955. She and the children moved many times, settling in Adelaide and in Tasmania. In the early 1990s, he found out that his great, great grandmother was an Indigenous Australian woman from the Kamilaroi nation, near Gunnedah.
He attended Launceston College and the University of Sydney, where he studied engineering on scholarship at university, but changed his mind and studied to become an English and History teacher. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1967.
Martin began working for Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in Sydney as a cadet in 1965. He was appointed the ABC's New York City correspondent in 1969. Over the next 10 years his coverage included race riots, anti-Vietnam War protests, Olympic Games and presidential elections for news and current affairs television and radio, from Four Corners and This Day Tonight to science and religion programs.
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