- Born
- Birth namePolly Carey Draper
- Height5′ 8½″ (1.74 m)
- Polly Carey Draper is an award-winning actress, writer, producer, and director. She was born on June 15, 1955 in Gary, Indiana, USA, to Phyllis (Culbertson), a Peace Corps administrator, and William Henry Draper III, who was the CEO of the United Nations.
Raised in Chicago, Illinois, as well as Arlington and Palo Alto, California, she is most known for her work in Thirtysomething (1987), Danielle Steel's Danielle Steel's 'Heartbeat' (1993), The Tic Code (1998), Getting Into Heaven (2003), The Naked Brothers Band (2007), Stella's Last Weekend (2018), and Once Upon a Main Street (2020).
Currently residing with her family in New York City, Draper has been married to jazz pianist Michael Wolff since 1992. They have two children together, actor/musicians Nat Wolff and Alex Wolff.- IMDb mini biography by: Eli Allen
- SpousesMichael Wolff(1992 - present) (2 children)Kevin Wade(August 20, 1983 - 1990) (divorced)
- Children
- Sons Alex Wolff (b. 1997) and Nat Wolff (b. 1994) were the stars of and wrote and performed the music for Nickelodeon's hit series The Naked Brothers Band (2007), which Draper created, showran, wrote, and directed.
- Wrote and produced The Tic Code (1998), which she starred in opposite Gregory Hines, and is about Tourette's Syndrome, an affliction that her husband, musician Michael Wolff, copes with, who provided the film's score.
- Draper and her husband, who live in New York City, are very close family friends with Uma Thurman, Julianne Moore, Cyndi Lauper, Arsenio Hall, Tony Shalhoub, Rikki Lake, Ann Curry, jazz singer Nancy Wilson, and the entire cast of TV's Thirtysomething (1987), all of whom Draper asked to appear in her 2004 indie film, The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie (2005), before Nickelodeon bought it as the pilot for the hit Nickelodeon series of the same name.
- She received an Emmy nomination for starring in the popular ABC television drama Thirtysomething (1987).
- Draper starred alongside John Ritter in Danielle Steel's 'Heartbeat' (1993) and in her playwriting Getting Into Heaven (2003) at the Flea Theater. She also appeared on Monk (2002), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), and The Big C (2010), as well as writing and starring in an episode of Bar Karma (2010). Draper's starring role in the Off Broadway production of Four Dogs and a Bone (1993) alongside Mary-Louise Parker won her a New York Magazine Award for Best Broadway Actress, and she was one of the stars of the Broadway production of Brooklyn Boy (2003) as well.
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