Gana Bayarsaikhan

Gana Bayarsaikhan is a Mongolian model, TV and film actress best known for her role as "the girl" in the 2019 film Waiting for the Barbarians and as Tuva Olsen in the 2020 Sky TV series Intelligence.

Gana Bayarsaikhan
Gana Bayarsaikhan in 2019
Born
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
OccupationActress
Years active2014–present

Early life and career

Bayarsaikhan was born and raised in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. [1] She started her career as a model,[2][3] and has appeared in Schön[4] and Where magazines.[5] After finishing drama training, she took a coaching programme to help her accept her own speech and accent for auditions.[6]

Bayarsaikhan made her screen acting debut as the android Jade in the 2015 film Ex Machina alongside Domhnall Gleeson.[7] and secured small roles as Khutu in Ben-Hur (2016) and in Wonder Woman (2017). [8]

Bayarsaikhan purportedly became the first Mongolian actress ever to play a lead role in a Hollywood movie when she was cast as "the girl" in the 2019 film Waiting for the Barbarians, [1] which co-starred Johnny Depp and Mark Rylance, [9] and premiered at the 76th Venice International Film Festival on 6 September 2019, to which Bayarsaikhan attended. [10][11] Director Ciro Guerra described how Bayarsaikhan and the other 14 Mongolian actors [1] shared their culture, enriching the film in the process.[12]

Bayarsaikhan plays Tuva Olsen, a main character in the 2020 Sky TV series Intelligence, alongside David Schwimmer and Nick Mohammed.[13]

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role
2014 Ex Machina Jade [7]
2016 Ben-Hur Khutu
2017 Wonder Woman Throne Room Amazon [8]
2018 Sweet Lies (short film) Honey
2019 Mad Lord (short film) Sokushitsu
2019 Waiting for the Barbarians The Girl [1][9]
2020 Three Dots and a Dash (short film) Nikita Hayashi

Television
Year Title Role Notes
2019 Peaky Blinders Li 1 episode ("The Loop")
2019 Intelligence Tuva Olsen Main role - 6 episodes [13]

References
  1. "The First Mongolian Actress to Create the Role of a Main Character in Hollywood Film". montsame.mn. 2 November 2020.
  2. "Portfolio: Gana Bayarsaikhan". profile-models.com. 2020.
  3. "Glowing in Chanel: Gana Bayarsaikhan". beautyisboring.com. 2017.
  4. "Lucent". schonmagazine.com. 2014.
  5. "How 'Ex Machina' Abuses Women of Color & Nobody Cares Cause It's Smart". Sharon H Chang -Multi-Asian Families. 2015.
  6. "Testimonial: Gana Bayarsaikhan - "Most of all I started accepting myself"". dnalightup.net. 2018. Archived from the original on 15 September 2019.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  7. "Ex Machina". netflix.com. 2015.
  8. "Gana Bayarsaikhan is a Mongolian actress known for Wonder Woman". Mongolia live on facebook. 2020.
  9. "London Film Festival `Waiting for the Barbarians'". theupcoming.co.uk. 2019.
  10. "76th Venice Film Festival 2019". gettyimages.co.uk. 2020.
  11. "Gana Bayarsaikhan in Ashi Studio Waiting for the barbarians Venice Film Festival photocall premiere". redcarpet-fashionawards.com. 2019.
  12. "Director Ciro Guerra on Venice competition player `Waiting for the Barbarians'". variety.com. 2019.
  13. "Intelligence: Who is Gana Bayarsaikhan? Sky One star impresses as Tuva Olsen". hitc.com. 2020.
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