# Anna Palk

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Anna_Palk
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Anna_Palk.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Palk
> Source revision: 1337114633
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

{{Short description|English actress (1941–1990)}}{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{more citations needed|date=April 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Anna Palk
| image = Anna_Palk_(actor).jpg
| caption = 
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1941|10|23|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [Looe](/source/Looe), [Cornwall](/source/Cornwall), England
| death_date     = {{Death date and age|1990|7|01|1941|10|23|df=yes}}
| death_place = [London](/source/London), England
}}
'''Anna Palk''' (23 October 1941 – 1 July 1990) was an English actress.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f56031b|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026142856/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f56031b|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 October 2020|title=Anna Palk|website=BFI}}</ref>

Born in Looe, Cornwall, Palk was educated at [Rise Hall Convent](/source/Rise%2C_East_Riding_of_Yorkshire) in the East Riding of Yorkshire, then trained as an actress at the [Royal Academy of Dramatic Art](/source/Royal_Academy_of_Dramatic_Art) in London.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles/anna-palk/|title=Anna Palk — RADA|website=www.rada.ac.uk}}</ref> She made her professional debut in August 1961, appearing in [Lawrence Durrell](/source/Lawrence_Durrell)'s ''Sappho'' at the Edinburgh Festival,<ref>'Edinburgh Festival opens: Sappho', ''The Stage'', 24 August 1961, p. 14.</ref> then gained repertory experience at Bristol, Leatherhead, Derby, Newcastle upon Tyne and Leeds. She spent a year in a major West End revival of [Noël Coward](/source/No%C3%ABl_Coward)'s ''[Present Laughter](/source/Present_Laughter)'' (1965–66), playing opposite [Nigel Patrick](/source/Nigel_Patrick) and [Phyllis Calvert](/source/Phyllis_Calvert),<ref>'Chit Chat', ''The Stage'', 22 April 1965, p. 8.</ref> and subsequently appeared in the first UK production of [David Mamet](/source/David_Mamet)'s ''[Sexual Perversity in Chicago](/source/Sexual_Perversity_in_Chicago)'' (1977–78).<ref>'On the Way', ''The Stage'', 1 December 1977, p. 1.</ref>

Her film appearances included ''[Play It Cool](/source/Play_It_Cool_(film))'' (1962), ''[The Earth Dies Screaming](/source/The_Earth_Dies_Screaming)'' (1964), ''[The Skull](/source/The_Skull_(film))'' (1965), ''[Fahrenheit 451](/source/Fahrenheit_451_(1966_film))'' (1966), ''[The Frozen Dead](/source/The_Frozen_Dead)'' (1966), ''[The Nightcomers](/source/The_Nightcomers)'' (1971) and ''[Tower of Evil](/source/Tower_of_Evil)'' (1972).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/anna-palk-p54784|title=Anna Palk &#124; Movies and Filmography|website=AllMovie}}</ref> She also appeared on TV in such programmes as ''[Sergeant Cork](/source/Sergeant_Cork)'' (1964), ''[Witch Hunt](/source/Witch_Hunt_(British_TV_series))'' (1967), as Sarah Courtney in ''[The Main Chance](/source/The_Main_Chance)'' (21 episodes, 1969–72: probably her best-known role), ''[The Persuaders!](/source/The_Persuaders!)'' (1971), ''[Jason King](/source/Jason_King_(TV_series)) ''(1971), ''[The Protectors](/source/The_Protectors)'' (1972), ''[The New Avengers](/source/The_New_Avengers_(TV_series))'' (1977), and ''[Bognor](/source/Bognor_(TV_series))'' (1981–82).<ref name=bfi/>

She died in 1990, of cancer, in London, England.<ref name=mcfarlane>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U3C5DwAAQBAJ&dq=anna+palk++%22The+Encyclopedia+of+British+Film%3A+Fourth+edition&pg=PA2009-IA111|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition|first1=Brian|last1=McFarlane|first2=Anthony|last2=Slide|date=16 May 2016|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=9781526111968|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name=bfi/> According to her obituary in ''[The Stage](/source/The_Stage)'', in her final years she "concentrated on finding an alternative cure for cancer. This search took her to Peru, where in 1984 she made a film about her search for alternative cures. During all this time her husband Derek Brierley and their 16-year-old son, Jonathan, helped her wholeheartedly."<ref>Cary Ellison, 'Obituaries', ''The Stage'', 23 August 1990, p. 25.</ref> 

==Filmography==
*''[Play It Cool](/source/Play_It_Cool_(film))'' (1962) as Ann Bryant
*''[The Earth Dies Screaming](/source/The_Earth_Dies_Screaming)'' (1964) as Lorna
*''[The Skull](/source/The_Skull_(film))'' (1965) as Maid
*''[Fahrenheit 451](/source/Fahrenheit_451_(1966_film))'' (1966) as Jackie (uncredited)
*''[The Frozen Dead](/source/The_Frozen_Dead)'' (1966) as Jean Norberg
*''Mini Weekend'' (1968) as Girl in cinema
*''[The Nightcomers](/source/The_Nightcomers)'' (1971) as New Governess
*''[Tower of Evil](/source/Tower_of_Evil)'' (1972) as Nora

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb name|0657728}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Palk, Anna}}
Category:1941 births
Category:1990 deaths
Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Category:English film actresses
Category:English stage actresses
Category:English television actresses
Category:Deaths from cancer in England
Category:People from Looe
Category:20th-century English actresses
Category:20th-century English businesspeople
Category:Actresses from Cornwall

{{England-stage-actor-stub}}
{{England-screen-actor-stub}}

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Anna Palk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Palk) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Palk?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.