Stark Sands

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Stark Sands
Stark Sands, 2007
Born	Stark Bunker Sands September 30, 1978 (1978-09-30) (age 29) Dallas, Texas, United States
Years active	2002 - present
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Stark Sands (born September 30, 1978) is an American actor of film, television and theatre.

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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.

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 HBO's critically acclaimed 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 major 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. As of October 2007, Sands is currently filming in Africa for a 7 episode HBO miniseries about the 2003 Iraq invasion called Generation Kill. It will start airing in September '08.

From May 2nd, 2008 until June 8th, 2008, he will be performing as Alex in A Seagull in the Hamptons at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey