Charles Martinet Wife: Is Charles Martinet Married?
John Parsons
Published Feb 21, 2026
Charles Martinet is currently not married.
Charles Martinet is an American actor and voice actor, known for his portrayal of both Mario and Luigi in the Super Mario video game series since 1992. He is also the voice of other characters in the series such as Wario and Waluigi.
He was born September 17, 1955, in San Jose, California, United States.
Martinet is of French descent and speaks fluent French and Spanish. His family moved to Barcelona when he was 12 years old, and later to Paris. He attended the American School of Paris and graduated in 1974.
Martinet attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he originally intended to study international law. 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”.
A friend suggested to he take acting classes to combat his fear of public speaking. His first role was a monologue from the Spoon River Anthology.
Working for Nintendo since 1990, 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 moved around the screen and talked.
Martinet provided the voice of Magenta in the English dub of the 2022 anime film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero.