Angela Martin

For the actress, see Angela Kinsey

Angela Noelle Martin, played by Angela Kinsey, is head of the accounting department at Dunder Mifflin Scranton/Sabre. Angela also acts as safety officer for the office, and was once the head of the Party Planning Committee.

Season 1

Angela likes cats and is the most uptight worker at Dunder Mifflin. She is very strict and is the head of the Party Planning Committee. She is also the safety officer.

Season 2

Angela refuses to accept the "Tight Ass" award at the 8th Annual Dundie Awards ("The Dundies ").

In Season 2, Angela begins a secret relationship with Dwight, and has a Dwight bobblehead doll made as a Valentine's Day gift for him ("Valentine's Day")

In the episode, "The Secret " and in several of the webisodes Angela eludes to a crush on Roy, and says that if she had to choose between Jim and Roy, she would choose Roy.

Season 3

Angela continues her secret relationship with Dwight.

Season 4

Angela continues her secret relationship with Dwight. That is, until he kills her cat, Sprinkles, when he's supposed to be feeding her. He tries to redeem himself with a new cat, named Garbage, to replace the one that he destroyed. She does not forgive him. 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.

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Season 5

Angela continues to have an affair with Dwight while engaged to Andy. Phyllis blackmails Angela and now Phyllis controls the Party Planning Committee. While Dwight helps Angela prepare for the wedding with Andy, unbeknown to her, Dwight becomes secretly married to Angela. Angela gets the wedding annulled. Then when Angela turns on Phylis, Phyllis tells everyone in the office but Andy of the affair. When Michael tells Andy, he confronts Angela about the affair, which she denies. Andy and Dwight decide to duel over Angela. During the Duel, Dwight and Andy find out that Angela has been cheating on both of them and they both break up with Angela. When the new Vice President comes in, Angela likes Charles but so does Kelly. Angela fights Kelly to win Charles Miner's love. At the Company Picnic, Dwight's friend Rolfe continually reminds Angela about her affair whenever she corrects something.

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 and at one point was engaged to Andy Bernard.

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.
Angela is a vegetarian and 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!"
In her family, if anyone seems like a slut, they say "someone took the slow train from Philly"
In "The Fire" when asked who Roy would have sex with, he replies "That tight-ass Christian chick", referring to Angela.
In "Money", Dwight returns a sleep apnea mask to Angela, indicating that she suffers from sleep apnea.
In "Stress Relief", Angela stated she weighs only 82 pounds.

Quotes

"Poop is raining from the ceilings. Poop!" ("Business School" Season 3 Episode 16)
(to Pam)"I’m having relationship problems. Since you’re always having relationship problems, I thought you’d be able to give me some advice." ("Fun Run " Season 4 Episode 1)
(to Dwight) "Every time I look in your eyes I see Sprinkles’ stiff, lifeless body!" ("Dunder Mifflin Infinity" Season 4 Episode 2)
"It’s not a surprise to me. Pam is the office mattress." ("Dunder Mifflin Infinity" Season 4 Episode 2)

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."

Bobble head Angela
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 Beesly.
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.

Likes and Dislikes


Episode	Preference	Subject	Remarks
Christmas Party	Likes	Posters of babies posed as adults.	personally confirmed
Gay Witch Hunt	Dislikes	Will & Grace	personally confirmed
The Injury	Likes	Candy	personally confirmed
Through out series	Favorite	Cats	personally confirmed
Women's Appreciation	Dislikes	Malls	personally confirmed
Cafe Disco	Dislikes	Music	personally confirmed

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.