Born and raised in Bronx and spent most of his formative years hanging out in New York City, Kirk Acevedo, who is of Puerto Rican/Chinese descent, received his BFA from SUNY Purchase and founded a theater company called The Rorschach Group. After guest-starring on several television shows like New York Undercover (1994) and Law & Order (1990), he landed his best-known role as Alvarez, a morose and violent prisoner struggling for redemption on HBO's notoriously gritty Oz (1997). Though he was nominated for a Cable Ace award and an ALMA award for his work on Oz (1997), it was Acevedo's role as Pvt. Tella in The Thin Red Line (1998) that won him an ALMA. 早年經(jīng)歷 出生于美國紐約布魯克林，擁有波多黎各及中國血統(tǒng)。從小他就對表演有著濃厚的興趣，常常在家人面前即興演出，高中時就參加學(xué)校的戲劇社。高中畢業(yè)后，Acevedo進(jìn)入了普契斯學(xué)院學(xué)習(xí)，并獲得了藝術(shù)學(xué)學(xué)士 演藝經(jīng)歷 由于不少同學(xué)在《監(jiān)獄風(fēng)云》中獲得了演出機會，他也受到激勵前去試鏡，并成功獲得了MiguelAlvarez一角。他的其他作品有《法律與秩序：陪審團(tuán)》《兄弟連》《24小時》《黑幫兄弟》等等。2008年，在科幻恐怖電視劇《危機邊緣》中，柯克扮演了一名優(yōu)秀的FBI聯(lián)邦探員查理·弗朗西斯（CharlieFrancis）。2015年，在Syfy劇集《12猴子》中飾演主要角色。2017年8月，柯克確定在CW電視臺電視劇《綠箭俠》的第六季里飾演常駐角色理查德·龍。
