Alexandrea “Alex” Martin – the only child of comedian, actress and EGOT winner Whoopi Goldberg – is an actress and film producer who got her start in the industry with cameos in her mother’s films. She denied being a nepo baby, though, on The View this month, at a 30th anniversary reunion for the cast of Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit . “I’ve yet to experience that,” Martin quipped about nepo baby syndrome , provoking laughter from her castmates.
“I auditioned like everybody else.” Martin also stands to inherit her mother’s entire US$60 million fortune – a world away from the days when she and her struggling single mum shared a bed and depended on food stamps. Here’s what you need to know about Alex Martin.
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Photo: CitiMuzik Goldberg got to know her daughter’s father, Alvin Martin, while he was helping her kick her heroin addiction as her drug counsellor, per US media. The pair married in 1973 – the same year Alex was born – and divorced in 1979. In a November 2015 interview with TheGrio, Alex, now 51, recalled the financial hardships she and her mother endured during h.
