Polly Anthony

Mary Kathryn "Polly" Anthony (1953–2013) was an American music industry executive. One of the first women to head a major record label, she was the president of Epic Records from 1997 until 2003.

Early life Anthony was born in Alexandria, Virginia to Patrice H. and Bernard J. Anthony, an aerospace executive. She and her family moved to Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California in 1963. In 1965, she saw The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl, a concert that "pointed the way to the road her life would take."

In 2003 Anthony returned to California as the president of DreamWorks Records; after a corporate reorganization, she was named co-president of Geffen Records. In 2006, she became head of television and film for the Universal Music Group. She left Universal in 2010 to executive produce film and television projects. Among others, Anthony produced the HBO series Off the Record, Cane for CBS, and Betty & Coretta for Lifetime.

Anthony died of pancreatic cancer in September 2013.