[1] Pollak became in 1948 the first contracted female director at the Royal Dramatic Theatre with the production of Jean Genet's Jungfruleken (Les Bonnes/The Maids), starring Anita Björk and Maj-Britt Nilsson in the leads.

The Dress, 1964), in Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata (starring Ingrid Bergman) as the piano teacher, in Flight of the Eagle (1982), starring Max von Sydow and directed by Jan Troell and in the very popular Swedish TV mystery Agnes Cecilia – en sällsam historia (1991), adapted from the successful books by Maria Gripe.

Pollak attended the Royal Dramatic Theatre school in Stockholm with fellow actress Greta Garbo from 1922 to 1924.

(Bloody Beloved Kid), written by Po Tin Andersén Axell (2005), and in Garbo's personal writings, released in Sweden the same year.

Her son, Lars Lundell, saved and provided to author Tin Andersen Axell the letters Greta wrote to his mother.