Polo was born Theresa Elizabeth Polo in Dover, Delaware, the daughter of Jane, a homemaker, and Vincent Polo, a stereo systems designer.1 Polo studied ballet for twelve years beginning at age five. By age 13 she was attending New York's School of American Ballet. After winning a modeling contest, she moved to New York City at the age of seventeen to pursue an acting career. In April 1997 Polo married photographer Anthony Moore. In 2003 Polo and Moore were divorced. A year later, while on the set of a video, she met drummer Jamie Wollam (of the bands Avion and Venice). Polo has two children, a son Griffin (b. Summer 2002 with Moore) and a daughter Bailey (born December 20, 2007 in Los Angeles with Wollam).2
In February 2005, Polo appeared on the cover of, and posed nude in Playboy. The appearance was linked to the release of Meet the Fockers, with cover text that made similar plays on words such as “She's one hot Focker”. She was ranked #42 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2002.3 She was also featured in InStyle.
Polo is in the 2009 television pilot for Washington Field. The show is about the National Capital Response Squad, a unit of the FBI composed of elite experts in different areas who travel around the world, responding to events that concern American interest.