Nancy Palk
Nancy Palk (born 1956) is a Canadian actress,[1] most noted as one of the founding members of the Soulpepper theatre company.[3] She has been a six-time Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Best Lead Actress, General Theatre, receiving nods in 1988 for I Am Yours,[4] in 1994 for Dancing at Lughnasa,[5] in 1996 for The Glorious 12th,[6] in 1998 for Molly Sweeney,[7] in 1999 for Don Carlos,[8] and in 2014 for Angels in America.[9] In 2020 she received a nomination in the Best Leading Performer, General Theatre category for August: Osage County.[11] However, she has noted in interviews that as a woman who is almost six feet tall, she has often been passed over by film and television casting directors.[3] She is married to actor Joseph Ziegler, alongside whom he has acted in several shows including Death of a Salesman, Long Day's Journey Into Night and A Tender Thing, a play by Ben Power which reimagines William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as an elderly couple confronting mortality.