Polly Adams

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 3 Law & Order’s, 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 Owen Wilson’s Mother-in-law (and Kathryn Hahn’s Mom) in Peter Bogdanovich’s She’s Funny That Way. She appeared most recently 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.