Kevin Pollak inside story in starring in The Usual Suspects

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Kevin Pollak has captured the attention of audiences worldwide with his range of both dramatic and comedic roles. He has appeared in over sixty films and has established himself as one of the few stand-up comedians to also have a successful dramatic film career.
Pollak first started performing stand-up comedy at age ten and was a touring professional stand-up by age twenty. In 1988, shortly after Pollak shot his first HBO stand-up special, he landed a role in "Willow," directed by Ron Howard and produced by George Lucas. In 1989, he got his first dramatic acting role in Barry Levinson's "Avalon." However, it was Pollak's role in Rob Reiner's "A Few Good Men," opposite Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore, that proved his ability to stand out while sharing the big screen with dramatic heavyweights. Not too soon after, Pollak was co-starring with icons Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon in "Grumpy Old Men" and its sequel, "Grumpier Old Men." In 1994, Kevin was offered a role opposite Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey and Benicio Del Toro in "The Usual Suspects". The film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and won two Academy Awards. The film was so well received that The National Board of Review created a new award that year, which they've given every year since: The Best Ensemble Cast. That same year, the call came from Martin Scorsese for Pollak to join Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone in his Vegas epic, "Casino." The film has become known as one of Scorsese's classics.
As the 20th century came to a close, Variety listed the top 10 hardest working film actors, the criteria of which was that the actors would have done at least 3 films for each year in the 1990's. Pollak was on the list.