Kevin Pollak has captured the attention of audiences worldwide with his range of both dramatic and comedic roles. Over the past two decades, he has appeared in over sixty films, as well as countless television projects, and has established himself as one of the few stand-up comedians to have a successful dramatic film career. In addition to his acting talents, he has also proven himself as both a writer, producer and recently a director.

Pollak first started performing stand-up comedy at the age of ten. He became a touring professional stand-up at age twenty and then in 1988 landed a role in George Lucas’ "Willow," directed by Ron Howard. In 1989, he got his first dramatic acting role, when he co-starred in Barry Levinson’s "Avalon", for which he received an overwhelming response from the film community. It was Pollak’s role in the 1992 film "A Few Good Men", directed by Rob Reiner, starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore, that proved his ability to share the big screen with dramatic heavyweights. Not too soon after, Kevin was co-starring with icons Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon in "Grumpy Old Men" and its’ sequel, "Grumpier Old Men". In 1994, Kevin was offered a plum role opposite Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacy, Bennicio Del Toro and Chaz Palmeteri in a little indy film called "The Usual Suspects." Although the director Bryan Singer and the writer Christopher McQuarrie were complete unknowns at the time, the script was simply the best he had ever read, so he took the leap. The film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival to a frenzied response, and then went on to win two Academy Awards and a special award from The National Board of Review for "Best Ensemble Cast." The film's popularity has never diminished thanks to a seemingly never-ending need for its DVD. Later that same year, the call came from Martin Scorsese for Kevin to join Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesce and Sharon Stone in his Vegas epic, "Casino." It was a dream-like opportunity to work with the master, and the film would also garner several Academy Award nominations, and would soon after become known as one Scorsese's classics.

As the 20th century came to a close, Variety named it's top 10 hardest working film actors, the criteria of which was that said actors had to have done at least 3 films per year, each year of the 1990's. Kevin was on the list.

As the the millennium began, Kevin returned to his first love, stand-up comedy. He began touring the country in '01, while also continuing to co-star in numerous films, including "End of Days," "The Whole Nine Yards" "Hostage" and "The Santa Clause 2" & "The Santa Clause 3". 

In  March of 2009, Kevin began hosting his own internet talk show, called Kevin Pollak's Chat Show. It's streams live every Sunday at 3pm, PDT at http://www.Kevinpollakschatshow.com. Archived episodes are available there or as well as free downloads at iTunes. Before celebrating the shows 1 year anniversary, it received 3 Streamy Award nominations and won for Best Live Production of a Web Series. 

Pollak was recently seen in Kevin Smith's "Cop Out," with Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Sean William Scott and Adam Brody. This Warner Bros release premiered February, 2010. The next film Kevin co-stars in, due out August 6th, 2010, is George Gallo's "Middle Men." This Paramount Pictures release also co-stars with Luke Wilson, Gabriel Macht, Giovanni Ribisi and James Caan. The film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May, '09. Also in post production is "Columbus Circle," which Kevin wrote with the film's director, George Gallo. This film stars Jason Lee, Selma Blair, Amy Smart, Giovanni Ribisi, Jason Antoon, Beau Bridges and Kevin.

Next up, in the middle of May, Kevin begins work co-starring with Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson in the "The Big Year."

At present, in development is the film version of the New York Times Bestseller “Three Nights In August,” written by Pulitzer Prize winner Buzz Bissinger ("Friday Night Lights") and St. Louis Cardinals Manager Tony LaRussa, as well as Kevin's Directorial Debut of a script he wrote. Academy Award winning actor Billy Bob Thorton has agreed to star in this contemporary film noir. Juicy details on all this and more to come!

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Pollak has also starred in two of his own HBO stand-up comedy specials, the latest being "Kevin Pollak, Stop With The Kicking", directed by David Steinberg.

Kevin was recently named by Comedy Central as one of the Top 100 Comedians of all Time.