Handsome, tall, dark-haired actor Kirk Acevedo has worked extensively on stage and screen from the early 1990s on, but gained the most notice for his regular role on the controversial prison-set drama "Oz" (HBO, 1997- ). Born on November 27, 1974 in Brooklyn, NY, Acevedo was raised in the Bronx and attended LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts, then received his bachelor of fine arts from Purchase College, State University of New York, the alma mater of several fellow "Oz" actors including Edie Falco, Robert Clohessy and Seth Gilliam. There he also met up with Shea Wigham with whom he
