Polly McGirr

Polly McGirr
  • Polly McGirr

Former charity worker Polly has had an eventful childhood and has subsequently packed a lot into her young years (which include two years living in a convent!).

A trained actor at the Lee Strasberg Film and Theatre Institute in New York, Polly is instinctive in front of an audience. She has presented a number of youth festivals to over 10,000 people through her Outreach Project charity work which has taken her all over the globe from the Ukraine (during which she was questioned on the suspicion of being a KGB spy) to Brooklyn to Manchester and all across London to connect with teens on a distinctive level.

A complete natural with young people, Polly ran a team of 50 volunteers to manage events including school mentoring and monthly club nights for teenagers. Effectively using her charity work to get under the skins of adolescents from every culture and background, Polly is no stranger to people from all walks of life: from the wealthiest of city folk to the slums in some of the poorest parts of Europe and the toughest estates across the UK.

And her talents do not stop there: she’s the girl on the front of Maximo Park’s album ‘Our Earthly Pleasures’.

Refreshingly down to earth and candid, Polly speaks a language that’s only learnt from living a life as extreme and extraordinary as hers.