Kirk Acevedo
- Actor
Born and raised in the Bronx, and spent most of his formative years hanging
out in New York City, Kirk Acevedo, who is of Puerto Rican
descent, received his BFA from SUNY Purchase and founded a theater
company called The Rorschach Group. After guest-starring on several
television shows like New York Undercover (1994) and Law & Order (1990), he landed his best-known
role as Alvarez, a morose and violent prisoner struggling for
redemption on HBO's notoriously gritty Oz (1997). Though he was nominated
for a Cable Ace award and an ALMA award for his work on Oz (1997), it was
Acevedo's role as Pvt. Tella in The Thin Red Line (1998) that won him an
ALMA.
