Biography

Sons Alex Wolff (b. 1997) and Nat Wolff (b. 1994) were the stars of and wrote and performed the music for Nickelodeon's hit series The Naked Brothers Band (2007), which Draper created, showran, wrote, and directed.

Wrote and produced The Tic Code (1998), which she starred in opposite Gregory Hines, and is about Tourette's Syndrome, an affliction that her husband, musician Michael Wolff, copes with, who provided the film's score.

Draper and her husband, who live in New York City, are very close family friends with Uma Thurman, Julianne Moore, Cyndi Lauper, Arsenio Hall, Tony Shalhoub, Rikki Lake, Ann Curry, jazz singer Nancy Wilson, and the entire cast of TV's Thirtysomething (1987), all of whom Draper asked to appear in her 2004 indie film, The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie (2005), before Nickelodeon bought it as the pilot for the hit Nickelodeon series of the same name.

She received an Emmy nomination for starring in the popular ABC television drama Thirtysomething (1987).

She is the daughter of Phyllis (Culbertson), a Peace Corps administrator, and William Henry Draper III, who headed the United Nations Development Programme. Her grandfather, William Henry Draper II, was a banker, army officer, and first ambassador for US NATO in Paris. Her parents were both born in New York. Polly has English, German, some Scottish, 1/128th Portuguese, and distant Welsh, Jersey (Channel Islander), and French, ancestry.