Polly Draper

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Draper

Polly Carey Draper (born June 15, 1956) is an American actress, writer, producer, and director. Draper received several awards, including a Writers Guild of America Award (WGA), and is noted for speaking in a "trademark throaty voice." She first gained recognition for her role in the ABC primetime television drama Thirtysomething (1987–91).

Draper co-starred in her screenwriting debut The Tic Code (1998) and Off-Broadway in her play Getting Into Heaven (2003). In mid-2004, she also wrote her directing debut The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie and created and produced the Nickelodeon musical comedy series The Naked Brothers Band (2007–09)—portraying her sons Nat Wolff and Alex Wolff—which won her a WGA for Children's Script: Long Form or Special.

Polly Carey Draper (born June 15, 1955) is an American actress, writer, producer, and director. Draper has received several awards, including a Writers Guild of America Award (WGA), and is noted for speaking in a "trademark throaty voice." She first gained recognition for her starring role in the ABC primetime television drama Thirtysomething (1987–91).

Draper co-starred in her screenwriting debut The Tic Code (1998) and Off-Broadway in her play Getting into Heaven (2003). In mid-2004, she wrote her directing debut The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie, and created and produced the Nickelodeon musical comedy series The Naked Brothers Band (2007–09), which won her a WGA for Children's Script: Long Form or Special.[6] Draper also wrote, directed, and co-starred in Stella's Last Weekend (2018).

Personal Life

Draper grew up in Chicago, Illinois, as well as in Palo Alto and Arlington, California.She earned her B.A. from Yale University (1977) and Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama (1980).

Following a seven-year marriage with playwright Kevin Wade, Draper remarried musician Michael Wolff after meeting him in 1991 when making a cameo appearance on the syndicated late-night talk show Arsenio Hall, where Wolff served as the bandleader. Wolff's life with Tourette syndrome influenced The Tic Code; he provided the score. She and Wolff have two sons, Nat and Alex; the latter three played the father and sons in The Naked Brothers Band series and film, which also featured Draper's niece, Jesse, as the band's babysitter. More recently, she starred with her sons as their mother in the film Stella's Last Weekend (2018).

Draper is a member of the Democratic Party; she voted for Democratic presidential candidates John Kerry and Barack Obama in 2004 and 2008, respectively. Her father and late grandfather, William Henry Draper Jr., were members of the Republican Party.[18] Draper's late mother, Phyllis, was also a friend of former US first lady Barbara Bush's (also deceased) since the late 1980s; the two first met when Draper's father was leading the United Nations.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Draper