Martha Stewart

Birthplace: Jersey City, New Jersey
Birthday: August 3, 1941

Hailed as the guru of good taste and queen of domesticity, Martha Stewart has with a near-obsessive drive to succeed turned her life-long skills in catering, gardening and home decoration into a multi-million dollar industry. Born Martha Kostyra in Jersey City, New Jersey, Stewart was raised in a typical Polish-Catholic middle class home—her father was a pharmaceutical salesman and her mother was a sixth-grade school teacher. She has credited her father as the one who taught her all she knew about carpentry, gardening and public speaking, e…more

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2008
Bought the rights to the Emeril Lagasse franchise of cookbooks, television shows and kitchen products for $50 million
2006
Made a special appearance on "Ugly Betty" (ABC), in which she gave her friend Wilhelmina Slater (Vanessa Williams) tips on how to prepare a turkey
2005
Hosted "Martha," a syndicated spin-off of "Martha Stewart Living," where she would give her home decoration and catering advice to a live audience
2005
Hosted "The Apprentice: Martha Stewart," a reality series co-produced with Mark Burnett, a spin-off of the successful Donald Trump series
2005
Launched a 24-hour satellite radio network with Sirius, on which Stewart hosts a weekly call-in show