Polly Draper
Polly Draper ( born June 15, 1955 in Palo Alto, California) is an American actress, screenwriter, director and producer.
Life and achievements
Draper graduated in 1977 with a Bachelor Yale University in 1980 and a Master of Arts from Yale School of Drama. She made her debut alongside Jennifer Connelly in the comedy movie ticket to heaven from the year 1985 in the SF comedy Making Mr. Right -. A man à la Carte (1987 ) she played alongside John Malkovich and Ann Magnuson.
Draper played in the years 1987 to 1991, a starring role as Ellyn Warren in the U.S. television series The Best Years. For this role she was nominated in 1988 for an Emmy Award. In the adventure film Gold Diggers - The Secret of Bear Mountain ( 1995) she played the role of Kate Easton, mother of Beth Easton ( Christina Ricci ). In the film drama The Tic Code, they not only worked as an actress one of the major roles, but also as a screenwriter and producer. For her performance in this film, she won the Bronze Gryphon of the Italian Giffoni Film Festival.
Since 2005, Polly Draper has worked as a screenwriter, director and producer of the mockumentary The Naked Brothers Band. She received the 2009 Writers Guild Awards ( WGA) for the best children film screenplay for the film The Naked Brothers Band: Polar Bears.
From 1983 to 1990 Draper was married to Kevin Wade. In 1993 she married the jazz musician Michael Wolff. She lives with him and her two sons Nat and Alex Wolff in Manhattan, New York.