Anna Crilly

Anna Crilly is an English actress and comedian. Education Crilly was educated at Kent College, Pembury, and attended Middlesex University, where she studied performing arts. Career She was a finalist in the So You Think You're Funny? competition at the Gilded Balloon in 2003 and performed two shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the following year. In 2004, she was placed at the Funny Women Awards. From 2006 to 2011 she played the role of Magda, an Eastern European housekeeper, in the BBC sitcom Lead Balloon. Her deadpan performance has been described as "scene-stealing". In 2013 she and regular comedy partner Katy Wix began starring in their own sketch show, Anna and Katy, on Channel 4, having originated the show as a Comedy Lab episode the previous year.