On Sesame Street, Andrea Martin plays the character "Wanda the Word Fairy" which is actually closely modelled after a SCTV character that she made famous, a bumbling children's entertainer named "Mrs. Falbo".
Along with Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin acted in well-known director Ivan Reitman's first ever movie, a Canadian "B" movie titled Cannibal Girls (1973). She played "Gloria Wellaby", opposite Levy's "Clifford Sturges", a young couple who spend the night in a remote restaurant, that find it is infested by three zombie-like cannibal girls.
Dave Thomas: (on meeting Andrea Martin for the first time) It was when Eugene (Levy) and I were there slogging away at sketches for "National Rockworks" that Andrea Martin walked into 1063. She was "sort of" dating Eugene at the time. They had co-starred the previous year in Cannibal Girls, a schlocky no-budget horror movie directed by Ivan Reitman. Andrea just burst into the room with so much energy that all you could do was watch. She did an instant routine with bedsheets she had just washed.