An Introduction to Tunny

I realized today that as much as I love American Idiot on Broadway, I really don't know much about the cast. I thought I would include a short bio each day about one of their primary actors and today I was thinking about Tunny, Johnny's friend who heads off to war, played by Stark Sands.

>>>>>Taken from http://www.starksandsonline.com/:
Born 30 September 1978 Dallas, Texas, USA  Stark Sands grew up in Dallas, Texas, where he began acting on the stage at age 13 at Highland Park High School.

He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting from the University of Southern California. During his four years in the intense conservatory program, he appeared in more than a dozen plays and musicals, including "Romeo and Juliet", "Macbeth", "Hamlet", "Pippin" and "Guys and Dolls". 

Sands' professional career began immediately after graduation. He has been seen as a recurring love interest to the angst-ridden teen, Claire Fischer (Lauren Ambrose), on HBO's critically acclaimed series, "Six Feet Under" and has co-starred in "Me and Daphne", a short film directed by Rebecca Gayheart and produced by Brett Ratner.  He has also co-starred in the independent film, Pack of Dogs (2002), directed by Ian Kessner.

Sands made his feature film debut opposite Natasha Lyonne and Jason Priestly in Die Mommie Die (2003), an adaptation of Charles Busch's play. He also has a co-starring role in the major motion picture, "Shall we dance," with Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez. <<<<<

Stark Sands effectively embraces the role of Tunny. At first Tunny seems like a normal punk ass kid going nowhere in life. While wasting his life away in bed by sleeping, he exclaims, "Blah fucking blah." A typical response from a "what the fuck am I going to do with my life" kind of kid.

After being seduced by military images on tv, Tunny goes off to war. He finds himself in battle and loses a leg and his innocence. Stark portrays Tunny's pain so realistically that one can almost feel the ghost pains where Tunny's leg is no more.

I didn't have the chance to meet Stark after the shows I went to last September, but hopefully for my next trip in January I will be able to. He is an amazing young actor and I look forward to following him more as his career takes him further.