Stephen Polk

Stephen Polk
Born	1960 (age 56–57) Dayton, Ohio, United States
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter, actor

Stephen Boyd Polk is an American actor, director, writer, and producer. He is the founder of Providence Productions LLC, an independent film development, production, and finance company.

Stephen Polk was born in Dayton, Ohio and grew up in Minnesota and later New York City. After starting at a young age with repertory theater and summer stock in Minneapolis, he made his film debut in Ridley Scott's Thelma & Louise and Oliver Stone's Heaven & Earth.

Polk started theater at Blake School in Minneapolis and Westminster in Simsbury, Connecticut. While studying theater, literature and film at Kenyon College (where he received a Bachelor of Arts), he attended the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

He returned to Minneapolis to begin his professional career working at the Children's Theatre Company. His one-man show Truss't won the Walker Art Center Performance Art Award and premiered in Los Angeles at Highways. While writing at the Playwrights Center, he moved to New York City to enroll at NYU Film School for directing and at The Neighborhood Playhouse for acting.

His first notable job was as Harvey Keitel's FBI partner in Thelma & Louise. He co-starred with Eric Roberts and F. Murray Abraham in By the Sword, and then appeared in Where Sleeping Dogs Lie starring Sharon Stone.

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