Kirk Ward – American actor, writer, and producer, born 23 September 1970 in Hollister, California. A stand-up comic in San Francisco before joining El Teatro Campesino under Luis Valdez as an actor and resident playwright, then The Actors' Gang in Los Angeles under Tim Robbins, where he developed his breakout one-man show 3 Stories Tall. His most notable film roles include Earl in Forrest Gump (1994), Soldier in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), Bill Bahne in Lords of Dogtown (2005), Censor in The Island (2005), Car Chase Cop in Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006), and Brendan Laroux in The Onion Movie (2008).

On television he has appeared in Charmed (1998), Malcolm in the Middle (2003), Zombieland (2013) as Tallahassee, Wayne (2019) as Calvin Clay, and The Continental: From the World of John Wick (2023) as Adjudicator's Henchman. He also co-created the Amazon pilot Skyward (2017) and sold the feature Take My Wife to Lionsgate.