Stark Sands

Stark Sands
Stark Sands, 2007
Born	Stark Bunker Sands September 30, 1978 (1978-09-30) Dallas, Texas, United States
Years active	2002–present
Spouse	Gemma Clarke (July 9, 2011)
Website
http://www.starksandsonline.com

Stark Bunker Sands (born September 30, 1978) is an American actor of film, television and theatre.

Personal life

Sands was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, 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.

Career

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. 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 NYC 22. It was recently announced that Stark will play the character of Troy Nelson in the film Inside Llewyn Davis.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

• Six Feet Under (TV series) (2002, recurring) - Toby
• Pack of Dogs (short) (2002) - David
• Twins (TV series) (2003) - ?
• Die, Mommie, Die! (2003) - Lance Sussman
• Lost at Home (TV series) (2003) - Will Davis
• 11:14 (2003) - Tim
• Chasing Liberty (2004) - Grant Hillman
• Catch That Kid (2004) - Chad
• Shall We Dance (2004) - Evan Clark
• Hope & Faith (TV series) (2004–2005, recurring) - Henry
• Pretty Persuasion (2005) - Troy
• Flags of Our Fathers (2006) - Walter Gust
• Day of the Dead (2008) - Bud Crain/Bub
• Primal Scream (2007) - Connor
• Generation Kill (TV series) (2008) - Lt. Nathaniel Fick
• My Sassy Girl (2008) - Army Boy
• Die, Mommie, Die! (1999) - Lance

External links

• Stark Sands at the Internet Movie Database