Never confused with pretty boy Brad Pitt, Kirk makes his living as a character actor. From goofy to creepy, white collar to trailer trash or just plain average Joe, Kirk can slide into these roles as easily as Paris Hilton getting a sprayed-on tan.
Bovill is snagged for a great role as a crazed guy in TNT’s hit show, Southland.
He’s filming or in pre-production on feature films “Life’s an Itch”, “Tucht” and “The Trace”.
Kirk appears in Texas Killing Fields with Chloe Moretz, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. The film is currently in theaters.
Bobcat Goldthwait’s dark comedy “God Bless America” with Joel Murray and Sandra Vergara which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival is set for 2012 spring theatrical release.
Bovill continues his New Orleans booking streak with Universal’s “Contraband” with Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster and Giovanni Ribisi, following the WWE/Samuel Goldwyn Film “Bending the Rules” with Adam “Edge” Copeland, Jamie Kennedy, Jessica Walter, Jennifer Esposito, Alicia Witt, Kevin Weisman and Phillip
Earlier this year, Footprints premiered at the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. The New York Film Critics Circle has named it, one of the top films of the first half of 2011. Following a limited theatrical release, the film film is available on Netflix.
Additional Bovill films available through Netflix include White Lightnin’, WWJD? and “Circle of Eight” .
Forever the chameleon, Kirk recently played a Northern Irish Policeman in Sons Of Anarchy, the hit FX show about an outlaw motorcycle gang, starring Ron Perlman, Charlie Hunnam and Katey Sagal. Other television roles include; CSI, Criminal Minds, Ghost Whisperer, recurring on Days of our Lives, Eleventh Hour and Leverage.
As a writer, his screenplay, “The Unmatchmaker” was a semi-finalist in the recent Fade In Screen Writing Contest which attracted over 2,400 screenplays. He is developing a number of film and television projects, including “Campus Badges” a campus cop drama set in Los Angeles with Michael Warren and the screen play based on Terry Johnsson’s inspirational book “Aim High”.
Kirk and Joni Bovill have released two critically acclaimed CDs under the indie label, Elmo Records. He has licensed music from the CDs to Hemisphere Entertainment for feature films.
Kirk and Joni have been happily married for over sixteen years which is like 60-years in non-Hollywood marriages.
Representation:
Aqua Talent
310-859-8889
Torque Entertainment - Mgr
310-576-6025
New Orleans Model and Talent
504-525-0100
Links:
Trivia:
Coaching staff on 5 NCAA track titles,(LSU 2, Nebraska 3).
Released two critically acclaimed CDs under indie label, Elmo Records.
Favorite vacation spot:
Kenya Safari
Worst vacation spot:
Iowa State Fair
Favorite food hangouts:
Brigsten’s - New Orleans
Mastro’s - Beverly Hills
Taco Johns - Omaha
Personal Motto:
Coffee is for old people.