On Sunday night, the Belfast actor stood on the Dolby Theatre stage in Los Angeles wearing his father’s leopard print suit jacket and clutched an Oscar as the audience serenaded him on his 31st birthday – and fellow actor Colin Farrell gave him a thumbs up.
Martin is the first person with Down syndrome to win an Academy Award after the Northern Ireland short in which he starred, An Irish Goodbye, won best live action short film.
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“It doesn’t matter if you have Down syndrome, as long as you’re doing what you do,” Martin told the BBC.
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