Anna Silk Biography

Anna Silk (born January 31, 1974) is a Canadian actress. Recognized throughout Canada for playing Deb, an overstressed flight attendant attempting to quit smoking in the Nicoderm nicotine patch TV commercials, Silk became popularly known for her role as Bo, the protagonist of the Showcase supernatural crime drama television series, Lost Girl.

Personal life

Silk was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. The daughter of Peter, an academic, and Ilkay Silk, a prominent actor, director, producer, playwright, educator, and Director of Drama at St. Thomas University. Her father is British and her mother a "Turkish-Cyprian-English expat". Some of Anna's earliest memories were of going to play rehearsals and watching her mother work. Silk appeared in several commercials as a child. She graduated from St. Thomas University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1997. Early theater work includes at least two productions with Theatre St. Thomas: Seven Menus and The Kitchen. Silk moved to Toronto to further her acting career in November 1999, and during the following decade relocated to Los Angeles, California. She met her future husband, Seth Cooperman, at an actor's workshop in Los Angeles, in 2007. They were engaged in 2009, and married in a civil ceremony in December of the same year. On April 10, 2011, they renewed their vows in a Jewish ceremony in Fredericton after she converted to Judaism. Silk gave birth to a son in May 2013.

Career

Anna Silk's television work includes the role of Cassidy Holland in Being Erica, for which she received a 2009 Gemini Awards nomination as "Best Performance by an Actress in a Guest Role, Dramatic Series." In 2009, she landed the principal character role of Bo Dennis, a Succubus in the Canadian television series Lost Girl. She found out she was pregnant during production of the third season finale episode of Lost Girl and broke the news to fans of the series in a Showcase pre-show Season Three special on January 6, 2013. In February 2013, her portrayal of Bo together with Lauren (Zoie Palmer) as same-sex lovers on Lost Girl was declared Top TV Couple of 2013 by E! Online. On June 4, 2013, Showcase and Prodigy Pictures announced the start of production on the fourth season of Lost Girl; and on June 20, 2013, Silk announced via Twitter that she was ready to return to work on the show. Film roles includes Grace, one of the assassins in Assassins Tale (2013).

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind	Headset Woman (uncredited)
2005	Where the Truth Lies	Gina (uncredited)
2007	Do Not Bend	Catye	Short film
2007	Breakfast with Scot	Mia
2013	Assassins Tale	Grace

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Daring & Grace: Teen Detectives	Sabrina	Episode: "1.112"
2002	Undressed	Becca	Episode: "6.17"
2003	Petits mythes urbains	Wife	Episode: "Sexes en eaux troubles"
2003	Mutant X	Asia	Episode: "Within These Walls"
2003	Missing	Marilyn Janacek	Episode: "Victoria"
2004	Dead Lawyers	Sonia Alexandropova	TV movie
2004	Puppets Who Kill	Sperm Bank Nurse	Episode: "Portrait of Buttons"
2004	Love Rules!	Lynn Hopp	TV movie
2004	Anonymous Rex	Keri	TV movie
2005	Hate	Woman	TV movie
2005	'	Ashley Marin	TV movie
2006	Deception	Julie	Video
2006	Earthstorm	Bryna	TV movie
2006	Angela's Eyes	Sondra	Episode: "The Camera's Eye"
2006	Legacy of Fear	Kathleen Coyne	TV movie
2007	'	Kathy	Episode: "Shower Killer"
2007	'Til Death Do Us Part	Mindy Lohman	Episode: "Storage Unit Murder"
2007	'	Stella Bledsoe	TV miniseries
2007	Voicemail	Sandy	TV series short
2008	Ghost Whisperer	Haylie Wayne	Episode: "Big Chills"
2008	Billable Hours	Suzie	Episode: "Pigeon Lawyer"
2009"2010	Being Erica	Cassidy Holland	Episodes: "Everything She Wants", "The Importance of Being Erica" and "Bear Breasts"
2010"present	Lost Girl	Bo Dennis	Protagonist (49 episodes)
2011	Republic of Doyle	Tania St. Croix	Episode: "St. John's Town"