POLLY ADAMS

POLLY ADAMS has extensive theater credits including: Broadway, Nina (lead) in Zalmen or The Madness of God (by Elie Wiesel), Gert in Lost in Yonkers (1st National Tour), and leads in numerous Off-Off Broadway and regional plays for over 40 years—most notably at The Ensemble Studio Theatre, where she is a founding member. TV credits include numerous featured roles in all three Law and Orders, New York News (w/ Mary Tyler Moore), The Wright Verdicts (w/Tom Conti), Now and Again, Players, The Edge of Night, Search for Tomorrow, All My Children, Conan O’Brien and David Letterman. Featured roles in film include People I Know (w/ Al Pacino), The Juror (w/ Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin), New York Crossing (w/ Giancarlo Giannini), Celebrity ( w/ Charlize Theron and Kenneth Branagh, dir/Woody Allen), David and Layla (Judith Fine, lead), and Paul Greengrass’s award-winning United 93 ( Debbie Welsh, Purser.) She played Tilda Swinton’s friend, Mary Woolford, in We Need To Talk About Kevin and can be seen most recently as Owen Wilson’s Mother-in-law in Peter Bogdanovich’s She’s Funny That Way. Recently, seen as Frau Schmidt, in the Fringe Encore production of The Radicalization of Rolfe – which won the Overall Excellence Award of the NY International Fringe Festival.