Angela Martin

For the actress, see Angela Kinsey

Angela Martin
Biographical Information
Gender	Female
Professional Information
Occupation	Accounting Supervisor; Safety Officer

Angela Noelle Martin, is a fictional character played by Angela Kinsey in the television series The Office.

Season 1:

Angela likes cats and is the most uptight worker at Dunder Mifflin.

Season 2:

Angela has a secretive relationship with Dwight and plays a game counting how many times Jim goes to reception to talk to Pam. She always wanted "two well-behaved boys". Angela likes pictures of babies dressed as adults.

Season 3:

Angela continues her secret relationship with Dwight.

Season 4:

Angela begins a relationship with Andy. She is very distant and unaffectionate towards him. But, in the season finale, when Andy proposes to Angela, she says "okay". At the end of the episode, Phyllis walks in on Angela having sex with Dwight.

Work Relationships

Angela tends to be somewhat abrasive towards other office workers, often outright insulting them. In Gay Witch Hunt, she expresses an open homophobia and dislike for Oscar, who is outed as a homosexual. However, it appears that by The Return, she has decided to overlook her problems with this, helping to plan a party for Oscar's return from vacation. She strongly disapproves of Office romances, playing a game called "Pam-Pong" in which she counts the number of times Jim leaves his desk to talk to Pam. Despite all of this, she maintains a secret office relationship with Dwight

Trivia

• Creed once referred to Angela as the "office bitch" and called her "Andrea".
• Angela is Christian. Her exact denomination is unknown. She is extremely disapproving of other religions, particularly Hinduism.
• Angela is the safety officer and also heads the Party Planning Committee.
• As a vegetarian, hates seafood, or at least the idea of serving it at an office party. When Kevin suggests the idea of having the office farewell lunch at Cooper's Seafood, in the episode "Branch Closing" she exclaims "No seafood!"

Recurring jokes

Angela is reluctant to apologize or to accept blame for having made a mistake.

• In the episode "The Alliance", Michael scolds the Party Planning Committee for doing a bad job with the streamers. Angela responds, "Phyllis wanted red. I didn't." In reality, Angela rejected Phyllis's suggestion of green streamers, because "green is whorish".
• In the Webisode "The Books Don't Balance", Angela insists that she is not the source of the accounting discrepancy. When the error is revealed to be hers in "The Best Day of My Life", she initially denies that she made the error, but when Oscar points out that this implies that she allowed an unknown person to access her books, she is forced to admit, "Very well. Case closed."
• In the episode "A Benihana Christmas", Angela says that she has not spoken to her sister in 16 years over some disagreement she does not even remember.
• In the episode "The Return", Angela is forced to admit that she failed to submit important documents, but she blames Kevin for failing to remind her.
• In the episode "Product Recall", Angela is pressured to apologize to Oscar and Kevin for insulting them. She says, "I'm sorry that you're both morons."
• In the episode "Product Recall", Angela is unable to bring herself to apologize to customers on behalf of Dunder Mifflin for the product recall.

Behind the Scenes

• Actress Angela Kinsey infused her character with some of her own personal preferences, including bobble-head dolls, cats, party-planning and Baby Ruth candy bars. Like her character, Angela Kinsey is a vegetarian.
• She initially auditioned for the part of Pam.
• Kinsey was pregnant during the filming of season 4, noticeably so from the episodes Dinner Party through Goodbye, Toby. The producers decided not to incorporate her pregnancy into the story line and shot around it.

Appearances

Angela appears and has lines in every episode, with the following exceptions:

• The Client - speaks only in a deleted scene.
• Branch Wars - provides background noise but speaks only in a deleted scene.
• The Deposition - speaks only in a deleted scene.