Jesse Lamont Martin is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his role of Tom Collins on Broadway in the musical Rent and performed on television as NYPD Detective Ed Green on Law & Order, Captain Joe West on The Flash, and professor Alec Mercer on The Irrational.
Martin at the PaleyFest Fall TV Previews 2014 for The Flash
Martin at the 2006 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Annual Grand Auction and Flea Market
Rent is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson. Loosely based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica, and Giuseppe Giacosa, it tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan's East Village, in the thriving days of the bohemian culture of Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
Broadway promotional poster
Life Café
Rent at David Nederlander Theatre in Manhattan, New York City
Cast of Rent performing "Seasons of Love" at Broadway on Broadway, 2005