Margarita Levieva

Margarita Vladimirovna Levieva was born in what was then Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg, into a Jewish family.[1][2][3] Both of her grandmothers, as children, survived the siege of Leningrad.[1] From the age of three she began to engage in rhythmic gymnastics.[2][3]

Levieva emigrated to the United States at age 11 with her mother and twin brother, Michael and settled in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.[2] Though she was accepted into Laguardia High School to study dance, she instead attended public high school in Secaucus, New Jersey.[4] In addition to working full-time as a fashion buyer, Levieva graduated a year early from New York University with a double major in economics and psychology and minors in philosophy, sociology, and Russian history.[5] Levieva went on to complete the Meisner Acting Program at the William Esper Studio in New York.

In 2005, Levieva made a guest appearance on Law & Order: Trial by Jury and in the following two years starred in the Fox series Vanished and feature films The Invisible, Billy's Choice, and Noise.

Levieva stars in the 2019 independent film Inherit the Viper. Her other film credits include It Happened In L.A. (2017), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015), Sleeping with Other People (2015), James White (2015), For Ellen (2012), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), Adventureland (2009), and Spread (2009).

In 2009, Levieva made an appearance in the NBC drama Kings (in the episode "First Night"), starred in the play The Retributionists, and made her Broadway debut in Impressionism. She also starred in the HBO comedy-drama series How to Make it in America.

Levieva's most prominent television appearances include her series regular roles in ABC drama series Revenge (2011–2015) and in HBO series The Deuce (2016–2019). In The Deuce, Levieva played Abigail "Abby" Parker, an adventurous college student.

Levieva can be seen as Jenny Franklin in the upcoming Netflix series In From the Cold. Jenny is a single mother from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, who, during a European vacation with her daughter, finds her life turned upside down when the CIA forces her to confront her long-buried past as a Russian spy — the product of a secret KGB experiment that endowed her with "special abilities.”

Levieva is set to star alongside David Tennant in the upcoming ITV mini-series Litvinenko as Alexander Litvinenko's widow Marina who fought to persuade the British Government to publicly name her husband's killers and acknowledge the role of the Russian State in his murder.

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