Stark Sands
Encyclopedia
Stark Bunker Sands is an American
actor
of film
, television
and theatre
.
, where he began acting on the stage at age 13 at Highland Park High School
. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting from the University of Southern California. During his four years in the intense conservatory program, he appeared in more than a dozen plays and musicals, including Romeo and Juliet
, Macbeth
, Hamlet
, Pippin
and Guys and Dolls.
Sands' professional career began immediately after graduation. He has been seen as a recurring love interest to the angst-ridden teen, Claire Fischer (Lauren Ambrose), on the HBO series, Six Feet Under and has co-starred in Me and Daphne, a short film directed by Rebecca Gayheart
and produced by Brett Ratner
. He has also co-starred in the independent film, Pack of Dogs (2002), directed by Ian Kessner.
Sands made his feature film debut opposite Natasha Lyonne
and Jason Priestly in Die Mommie Die (2003), an adaptation of Charles Busch's play. He also has a co-starring role in the motion picture, Shall We Dance, with Richard Gere
and Jennifer Lopez
.
In 2007, he received a Tony
nomination for "Featured Actor in a Play" for his role in the Broadway
revival of Journey's End.http://www.playbill.com/news/article/108653-Stark-Sands-Comes-to-Journeys-Ends-End-With-No-Regrets Sands also participated in the seven-episode HBO miniseries Generation Kill
about the 2003 Iraq invasion, airing during the summer of 2008. In the miniseries he played Marine Lt. Nathaniel Fick
. Sands had previously played a U.S. Marine, Walter Gust in Flags of Our Fathers
.
From May 2, 2008 until June 8, 2008, he performed the role of Alex in A Seagull in the Hamptons at the McCarter Theatre
in Princeton, New Jersey
From June 25 to July 12, 2009, Sands joined the production of Shakespeare in the Park
: Twelfth Night, featuring with Anne Hathaway
, Audra McDonald
, and Raul Esparza
.
Sands had a chance to perform in a brand new professional musical, Bonnie and Clyde as title character, Clyde Barrow from November 23 to December 20 in La Jolla Playhouse
, CA.
Sands recently played the role of Tunny in the Broadway production of American Idiot
. He left the production on March 13, 2011; David Larsen
took over the role.
Sands was in the new HBO pilot The Miraculous Year, which was not picked up by HBO. He is currently in the cast of the pilot of CBS
show Rookies
. The show was picked up for mid-season, under the new name The 2-2.
United States
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actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
of film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
, television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
and theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
.
Biography
Sands was born and raised in Dallas, TexasDallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
, where he began acting on the stage at age 13 at Highland Park High School
Highland Park High School (University Park, Texas)
Highland Park High School is located in University Park, Texas.Highland Park is a part of the Highland Park Independent School District. It serves all of the city of University Park, most of the town of Highland Park, and portions of Dallas.-History:...
. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting from the University of Southern California. During his four years in the intense conservatory program, he appeared in more than a dozen plays and musicals, including Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
, Macbeth
Macbeth
The Tragedy of Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607...
, Hamlet
Hamlet
The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
, Pippin
Pippin (musical)
Pippin is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Roger O. Hirson. Bob Fosse, who directed the original Broadway production, also contributed to the libretto...
and Guys and Dolls.
Sands' professional career began immediately after graduation. He has been seen as a recurring love interest to the angst-ridden teen, Claire Fischer (Lauren Ambrose), on the HBO series, Six Feet Under and has co-starred in Me and Daphne, a short film directed by Rebecca Gayheart
Rebecca Gayheart
-Early life:Gayheart was born in Hazard, Kentucky and raised in Pine Top, Kentucky, the daughter of Floneva , who worked as a Mary Kay independent beauty consultant, and Curtis Gayheart, a miner and coal truck driver. She is of Irish, Italian, and German descent...
and produced by Brett Ratner
Brett Ratner
Brett Ratner is an American film director, film producer and music video director. He is best known for directing the Rush Hour film series, The Family Man, Red Dragon, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Tower Heist. He was also a producer on the Fox drama series, Prison Break.- Early life :Ratner was...
. He has also co-starred in the independent film, Pack of Dogs (2002), directed by Ian Kessner.
Sands made his feature film debut opposite Natasha Lyonne
Natasha Lyonne
-Early life:Lyonne was born Natasha Braunstein in Manhattan, New York City, the daughter of Yvette Lyonne, a product licensing consultant, and Aaron Braunstein, a native of Brooklyn who worked as a boxing promoter. Lyonne grew up in an Orthodox Jewish household...
and Jason Priestly in Die Mommie Die (2003), an adaptation of Charles Busch's play. He also has a co-starring role in the motion picture, Shall We Dance, with Richard Gere
Richard Gere
Richard Tiffany Gere is an American actor. He began acting in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and a starring role in Days of Heaven. He came to prominence in 1980 for his role in the film American Gigolo, which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol...
and Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lynn Lopez is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, television personality, and fashion designer. Lopez began her career as a dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color. Subsequently venturing into acting, she gained recognition in the 1995 action-thriller...
.
In 2007, he received a Tony
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
nomination for "Featured Actor in a Play" for his role in the Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
revival of Journey's End.http://www.playbill.com/news/article/108653-Stark-Sands-Comes-to-Journeys-Ends-End-With-No-Regrets Sands also participated in the seven-episode HBO miniseries Generation Kill
Generation Kill (TV series)
Generation Kill is a 2008 HBO television miniseries based on the book of the same name by Evan Wright about his experience as an embedded reporter with the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion of the United States Marine Corps during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It was adapted for television by David Simon,...
about the 2003 Iraq invasion, airing during the summer of 2008. In the miniseries he played Marine Lt. Nathaniel Fick
Nathaniel Fick
Nathaniel C. "Nate" Fick is a veteran United States Marine Corps officer and CEO of the Center for a New American Security, a national security think tank based in Washington, D.C. He came to public notice for his writing on military life and the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq...
. Sands had previously played a U.S. Marine, Walter Gust in Flags of Our Fathers
Flags of Our Fathers
Flags of Our Fathers is a New York Times bestselling book by James Bradley with Ron Powers about the five United States Marines and one United States Navy Corpsman who would eventually be made famous by Joe Rosenthal's lauded photograph of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, one of the costliest and...
.
From May 2, 2008 until June 8, 2008, he performed the role of Alex in A Seagull in the Hamptons at the McCarter Theatre
McCarter Theatre
McCarter Theatre is a not-for-profit, professional company on the campus of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. It is one of the most active cultural centers in the nation, offering over 200 performances of theater, dance, music and special events each year...
in Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton is a community located in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. It is best known as the location of Princeton University, which has been sited in the community since 1756...
From June 25 to July 12, 2009, Sands joined the production of Shakespeare in the Park
Shakespeare in the Park
Shakespeare in the Park is a concept used across the world, as a form of free public presentation of William Shakespeare's works. Such performances exist in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America....
: Twelfth Night, featuring with Anne Hathaway
Anne Hathaway (actress)
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway is an American actress. After several stage roles, she appeared in the 1999 television series Get Real. She played Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries...
, Audra McDonald
Audra McDonald
Audra Ann McDonald is an American actress and singer. She currently stars in the ABC television drama Private Practice as Dr. Naomi Bennett. She has appeared on the stage in both musicals and dramas, such as Ragtime and A Raisin in the Sun...
, and Raul Esparza
Raúl Esparza
Raúl Eduardo Esparza is an American stage actor, singer, and voice artist noted for his award winning performances in Broadway shows...
.
Sands had a chance to perform in a brand new professional musical, Bonnie and Clyde as title character, Clyde Barrow from November 23 to December 20 in La Jolla Playhouse
La Jolla Playhouse
La Jolla Playhouse is a not-for-profit, professional theatre-in-residence on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. -Background:...
, CA.
Sands recently played the role of Tunny in the Broadway production of American Idiot
American Idiot (musical)
American Idiot is a one-act, through-sung stage musical. The show is an adaptation of punk rock band Green Day's concept album of the same name. Additional Green Day songs were interpolated from other sources, including 21st Century Breakdown, American Idiot b-sides, and an unreleased song called...
. He left the production on March 13, 2011; David Larsen
David Larsen
David Larsen is an American stage actor from Portland, Oregon. A 1998 graduate of Hillsboro High School, Larsen starred in many productions, including the title role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat....
took over the role.
Sands was in the new HBO pilot The Miraculous Year, which was not picked up by HBO. He is currently in the cast of the pilot of CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
show Rookies
Rookies
Rookies may refer to:* The Rookies is an American television drama.* Rookies is a Japanese baseball manga and television drama.* Rookies is an American television series currently airing on A&E Network....
. The show was picked up for mid-season, under the new name The 2-2.
Filmography
- Six Feet Under (TV series) (2002, recurring) - Toby
- Pack of Dogs (short) (2002) - David
- Twins (TV series) (2003) - ?
- Die, Mommie, Die!Die, Mommie, Die!Die, Mommie, Die! is a 1999 drag queen film written by Charles Busch, who also plays the lead role. Partly spoof and partly homage, it draws heavily on the tropes and themes of American "Grande Dame Guignol" movies from the 1950s and 1960s that featured strong, sometimes dominating female leads,...
(2003) - Lance Sussman - Lost at HomeLost at HomeLost at Home is the name of a short-lived sitcom aired on ABC from April 1 to April 22, 2003. The show starred Mitch Rouse, Connie Britton, Gregory Hines, Stark Sands, Leah Pipes, Gavin Fink and Aaron Hill. This show was cancelled after only four episodes, due to the death of Gregory Hines from...
(TV series) (2003) - Will Davis - 11:1411:1411:14 is a 2003 film about a series of interconnected events which lead up to the same time, 11:14 p.m.-Plot:The film involves several interconnected stories that converge at 11:14 p.m...
(2003) - Tim - Chasing LibertyChasing LibertyChasing Liberty is a 2004 American romantic comedy film directed by Andy Cadiff, and starring Mandy Moore and Matthew Goode.-Plot:Anna Foster is the daughter of President James Foster and First Lady Michelle Foster . After Secret Service agents ruin a first date, Anna demands some freedom...
(2004) - Grant Hillman - Catch That KidCatch That KidCatch That Kid! is a 2004 American adventure comedy film directed by Bart Freundlich. It is a remake of the Danish blockbuster Klatretøsen...
(2004) - Chad - Shall We Dance (2004) - Evan Clark
- Hope & FaithHope & FaithHope & Faith is an American sitcom that aired for three seasons on ABC from September 26, 2003, to May 2, 2006. For its first two seasons the show was part of a revived TGIF comedy block....
(TV series) (2004–2005, recurring) - Henry - Pretty PersuasionPretty PersuasionPretty Persuasion is a 2005 American black comedy/satirical film about a 15-year-old schoolgirl who makes an allegation of sexual harassment against her drama teacher. The film's tagline is: "Revenge knows no mercy." It was written by Skander Halim and directed by Marcos Siega...
(2005) - Troy - Flags of Our FathersFlags of Our Fathers (film)is a 2006 American war film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles, Jr. and Paul Haggis. It is based on the book of the same name written by James Bradley and Ron Powers about the Battle of Iwo Jima, the five Marines and one Navy Corpsman who were involved...
(2006) - Walter Gust - Day of the Dead (2008) - Bud Crain/Bub
- Primal Scream (2007) - Connor
- Generation KillGeneration Kill (TV series)Generation Kill is a 2008 HBO television miniseries based on the book of the same name by Evan Wright about his experience as an embedded reporter with the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion of the United States Marine Corps during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It was adapted for television by David Simon,...
(TV series) (2008) - Lt. Nathaniel Fick - My Sassy Girl (2008 film)My Sassy Girl (2008 film)My Sassy Girl is a 2008 American remake of the 2001 Korean romantic-comedy film of the same name. It stars Elisha Cuthbert and Jesse Bradford and was directed by Yann Samuell...
(2008) - Army Boy