Years active 2001 – present Name Marianna Palka | Role Screenwriter | |
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Full Name Marianna Bronislawa Barbara Palka Occupation Actress, director, screenwriter Movies Good Dick, Contracted: Phase II, The Lion's Mouth Opens, Neds, Pant Suits Similar People Jason Ritter, Lucy Walker, Eric Edelstein, Nancy Morgan, Tyler Ritter | ||
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Marianna Bronislawa Barbara Palka (born 7 September 1981) is a Scottish screenwriter, director, and actress. She is the writer, director and star of the film Good Dick, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Biography
Palka was born and brought up in Glasgow and moved to New York City at age 17 to study at the Atlantic Theater Company. She wrote, directed and starred alongside her longtime boyfriend at the time, Jason Ritter (with whom she began a relationship after meeting in Queens in October 1999), Martin Starr, Mark Webber, Charles Durning and Tom Arnold in Good Dick. It was self-released in the US in 2009. At the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Palka was a Sloan Juror with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Later that year she performed in "Love Loss and What I Wore" at The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.
Palka appeared in Peter Mullan's 2011 film Neds. Palka played the lead role of JEVA in director Jeremiah Jones independent film Restive. She appeared in the short Spoonful (by director Jenee LaMarque) and in Bryce Dallas Howard's second film, When You Find Me. She played a Scottish book store worker/hipster in director Nathan Sutton's film Autumn Wanderer. She starred in director Sylvia Sether's short film, King Of Norway.
In 2012, she was in The Ensemble Theater in Santa Barbara, California, reading of The Good Soldier. She appeared in Martin McDonagh's The Lonesome West at the Actor’s Gang Theatre, Los Angeles, and in Conor McPherson's Dublin Carol at the Ensemble Theatre Company.
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