Martin Quick has endured a collection of non-public tragedies earlier than the loss of life of his daughter Katherine Hartley Quick – together with the passings of his dad and mom, brother and ex-wife.
Martin Quick has endured a collection of non-public tragedies earlier than the loss of life of his daughter Katherine Hartley Quick – together with the passings of his dad and mom, brother and ex-wife
Authorities found the actor’s 42-year-old lady Katherine lifeless from an obvious self-inflicted gun wound inside her dwelling within the Hollywood Hills, California, on Monday (23.02.26) at about 6pm, and the earlier tragedies endured by Martin have now resurfaced within the wake of her passing.
A consultant for Martin, 75, confirmed Katherine’s loss of life “with profound grief” in an announcement to Web page Six, saying: “The Quick household is devastated by this loss, and asks for privateness presently. Katherine was beloved by all and will probably be remembered for the sunshine and pleasure she introduced into the world.”
Katherine, a social employee, was the eldest of Martin’s three youngsters, and the actor shares sons Oliver Patrick, 39, and Henry Hayter, 36, along with his late spouse, Nancy Dolman, to whom he was married for 36 years.
Martin has not spoken publicly about Katherine’s loss of life.
In August 2024, nevertheless, he mirrored on earlier experiences of loss in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
He mentioned: “At 20, I knew issues about life and loss of life and tragedy and loss that none of my mates knew about. I don’t know why this didn’t screw me up. The one factor I can consider is that these sort of life stresses both empower you or defeat you.”
He continued: “However I feel that by surviving all that and persevering with on, I developed muscle groups to deal with the disappointments in life. And I do suppose, in a bizarre manner, it did make me braver as a performer, braver onstage.
“I’d strive one thing, and if some individuals didn’t prefer it, I didn’t care as a result of I didn’t know them. I used to be by no means doing this for the admiration of strangers. I used to be doing this to make my siblings and my mates snigger.”
Martin’s former spouse Nancy died in August 2010 following a years-long battle with ovarian most cancers on the aged of 58.
In 2012, Martin instructed The Guardian concerning the loss: “We had been collectively for 36 years, however I might have been divorced 5 instances if I hadn’t discovered the proper particular person.
“I wouldn’t have faked it and performed a recreation simply because I didn’t need to be divorced. It’s been a tricky two years for my youngsters. That is the factor of life that we reside in denial about, that it’ll ever occur to us or our family members, and when it does you achieve a bit and also you endure a bit. There’s no large shock.”
In an interview with Larry King launched later that yr, Martin added of Nancy’s sickness: “I imply, how does anybody cope with it? She was courageous. She, at instances, denial fueled her. At instances, realism fueled her too.”
He mentioned of his youngsters: “One offers with it extra aggressively. Another person perhaps doesn’t discuss it. However, it doesn’t imply that they’re not all grieving.”
In 2014, whereas selling his memoir, I Should Say: My Life As a Humble Comedy Legend, on The Meredith Vieira Present, Martin described honouring Nancy’s remaining needs.
He mentioned: “So I simply adopted her needs. We went up, we had a celebration with about 30 shut family and friends. She was cremated. The youngsters and I went into a ship, we sprinkled the ashes into the water, and we jumped into the ashes.”
Martin’s brother, David, died in a automobile accident when Martin was 12.
In his 2012 interview with The Guardian, Martin mentioned he grew up surrounded by “great humor in the home rising up” and “numerous laughing”.
He added: “These sorts of conditions are horrible however I feel that you’re both empowered by them otherwise you grow to be a sufferer of them.”
Martin’s mom, Olive Hayter, died from most cancers when he was 17, and his father, Charles Patrick Quick, was killed by a stroke two years later.
In 2013, Martin instructed CNN: “I feel that you just grow to be empowered in a bizarre manner by loss — at any age — however definitely whenever you’re younger.”
“You possibly can both go right into a route of say being, ‘I’m going to be a sufferer from this. I’m going to be a drunk. I’m going to do medicine. However, you don’t know what I’ve been via.’ Otherwise you grow to be extra resilient.”
