Dasha Nekrasova

Nekrasova was born in Minsk, Belarus[5] (at that time still part of USSR), to parents who worked as acrobats.[6] She emigrated to the United States with her parents when she was four, settling in Las Vegas, Nevada.[7]

She attended high school at Las Vegas Academy of the Arts, graduating in 2008, before attending Mills College, where she studied sociology and philosophy.[7]

Nekrasova first appeared in music videos for alternative artists such as Yumi Zouma,[8] before making her film debut in Wobble Palace, which she co-wrote with director Eugene Kotlyarenko.[2][9] The New York Times described the film as "a sendup of broke-artist types that shimmers with abashed affection",[2] while RogerEbert.com commented that "while your comedic milage with its loose goofiness may vary, this movie succeeds in contributing a filmic time capsule" for millenials.[9][2] She appeared as the leading character in the dark comedy The Softness of Bodies, with The Hollywood Reporter saying she inhabited the role "effortlessly".[6]

While promoting Wobble Palace at the 2018 South by Southwest Festival, her interview with right-wing media outlet InfoWars went viral.[3] She was nicknamed "Sailor Socialism" for expressing her support for Bernie Sanders, while dressed in an Japanese schoolgirl outfit resembling Sailor Moon.[3][4] The clip was featured in a segment on Venezuela in an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.[10]

On March 29, 2018, Nekrasova started the podcast Red Scare with co-host Anna Khachiyan. The show has been associated with the dirtbag left[11][12][13] and described in The Cut as "a critique of feminism, and capitalism, from deep inside the culture they’ve spawned."[13] Daily Dot said the show's "schtick" had been summed up by former congressional staffer Simone Norman, as "when hot mean girls become public leftists."[14]

In 2020, Nekrasova made her directorial debut with The Scary of Sixty-First, a thriller co-written with Madeline Quinn, and inspired by the death of Jeffrey Epstein.[15] The film premiered at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival[16] and won the prize for Best First Feature.[17] Later that year, Nekrasova co-wrote the short film, Spectacular Reality, inspired by conspiracies surrounding crisis actors and featuring models from No Agency New York,[18] and directed the November 6, 2020 video performance of Oneohtrix Point Never's "I Don't Love Me Anymore" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.[19][15]

Nekrasova appears in a supporting role in season three of the HBO drama Succession as Comfry, a crisis PR rep.[20][21][22][23][24]

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