Early Life
Polley, the youngest of five siblings, was born in Toronto, Ontario. Her mother, Diane Elizabeth (née MacMillan), was an actress and casting director who had died of cancer after Polley's 11th birthday. Polley grew up believing that her biological father was Michael Polley, a British-born actor and insurance agent who had attended acting classes with Albert Finney in England before moving to Canada. Polley discovered as an adult that her biological father was actually Harry Gulkin, with whom her mother had had an affair while working on a stage play in Montreal (as chronicled in Polley's film, Stories We Tell). Gulkin, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, is a Quebec-born film producer who produced the 1975 Canadian film Lies My Father Told Me.
Polley attended Subway Academy II, then Earl Haig Secondary School, but dropped out before graduating.
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