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When I was 16 I went on a Foreign exchange to Mexico for my Junior Year of High School, and while I was there I wrote a song in Spanish about my experience and how I fell in love with the people and the Culture. A singer from the Celaya Guanajuato (the city I was staying in for my exchange) heard my song and decided to bring me into his studio and record it and he made a video for it as well. People from all over Mexico heard it and began flying me all over to sing for big conferences and at hotels. When I came home to Provo, Utah a vocal teacher there put me together with 4 other guys and made a boyband called Mile High Drive. After a 2 year mission in El Salvador, Belize, and Guatemala i moved out here to LA for music and acting. Ive acted in music videos with PRETTYMUCH, Why Don’t We, HRVY, Polo G, NLE Choppa, Swae Lee, and lots of other artists as well. This year I’ve already released a song in French and a song called “Party On My Own” which started a challenge on Tiktok for people to show how they party during quarantine 😂. Ive been writing for record labels and other artists here and in the Philippines. And this year I’m going to be releasing songs in 5 different languages.

I initially became interested in the restaurant business because I wanted to be a female Sushi chef which is rather rare in the Sushi world. I am passionate in providing Japanese style hospitality especially to the multicultural scene in Southern California.

I discovered my passion for acting very early, when I was about four years old, and since then I made sure that I performed literally at every corner, singing songs and reciting poems. Or just clowning. I loved to make people laugh. My parents were sure that I’d become eventually a professional clown. Then, in middle and high school, I constantly performed in school plays. But then, at the age of 18, curiosity and a thirst for adventures brought me to television news, where I first became a reporter, and later one of the anchors.
From TV news I decided to move on to  radio, and soon became a well-known radio host. Meanwhile, I hosted several TV shows, and for many years enjoyed this career. I also collaborated with MTV Europe, and hosted MTV radio specials in Russia for a couple of years. Alongside all of that, I also worked as a voiceover artist. My voice was, literally, everywhere: I was one of the official voices of the First National TV Channel, narrated National Geographic films in Russian for Russian Television, and at times it seemed like my voice was in every other television commercial at one point. I did airline carrier announcements, big store announcements, educational films, and all kinds of work. Russian pop stars even asked me to voice their outgoing voicemail greetings! 
  But all of that work left little time to be properly trained as an actress and to focus on my real passion, which has never faded a bit. So I made a decision to leave behind everything I had built and focus on film and theatre acting. I went back to college (this time it was the Theatre Arts college), and a couple of years later graduated from it with honors. I performed in theatre during those years, but by that time, I had just had a baby. So I had to juggle my responsibilities as a mom and as a very devoted acting student.
Fast forward to five years later when I got cast in an independent film in the United States, and flew here for the first time in my life. The filming was happening in Oregon for several weeks. Then I flew back to Moscow, and then the producers called me back to shoot the rest of the movie in Los Angeles! I loved the city.
Soon after, when I came to LA for the premiere and the promotion of the film, the producers convinced me to stay and continue my acting career here. That’s how I ended up here in Hollywood. What else can I say? I continue doing what I love, and hope for more exciting projects to come my way!