Background
Palka was born and brought up in Glasgow and moved to New York City at age 17 to study at the Atlantic Theater Company.
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 is the co-star of the film Good Dick. She is the subject of the short documentary The Lion"s Mouth Opens. She wrote, directed and starred alongside 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.
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Later that year she performed in "Love Loss and What I Wore" at The Geffen Playhouse in Los 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 Maine.
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.
She dated actor Jason Ritter.
They"ve since broken up.