Joey Pollari is an American actor, musician, and director. He was born on April 9, 1994 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He started his acting career when he attended a scouting event in downtown Minneapolis with his mother. He received callbacks the next day from agents who wanted to represent him. Pollari has appeared in stage productions at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in Saint Paul, and the SteppingStone Theatre for Youth Development, also in Saint Paul.
His screen debut was on April 30, 2006, when he appeared as a newsboy in "The Hen House", an episode of the police procedural television series Cold Case. Pollari became well known for his role as Eric Tanner on ABC's second season of American Crime, and in 2018, when he appeared in the film Love, Simon, as Lyle, one of Simon's potential boyfriends. In 2020, Pollari released his debut album, About Men. A follow-up second album, I'll Be Romance, was released on April 5, 2024.
Pollari is gay, having come out at eighteen to friends and family.
