Olga Fonda


Olga Tchakova (Ольга Чакова; known professionally as Olga Fonda, is a Russian-American film and television actress and model.

Early life

Olga Tchakova was born in the Siberian region of Russia and then lived in Ukhta, Komi ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, in the country's Komi Republic. Her father, she said, "had grocery stores in one of the Russian villages that I grew up in". She has an older brother.
She moved to Maine in the United States for a year at age 14, as an exchange student living with the Auclair family in East Winthrop, Maine, while attending Winthrop High School from 1996 to 1997. She returned to attend the University of Maine at Augusta, majoring in financial management.

Career

While vacationing in Los Angeles, California, Fonda was scouted by agent Paul Fisher to pursue modeling, her longtime ambition. After acting in TV commercials, she played a Russian ballerina in the 2009 independent film Love Hurts.
Fonda, who has modeled since at least 2007 in Japan, Italy and the United States, went on to appear in television series including How I Met Your Mother, Nip/Tuck, Melrose Place, and Entourage, and played Owen Wilson's girlfriend in a nonspeaking role in Little Fockers. She was cast in the 2011 romantic-comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love, though her scene did not make the final cut; she does appear in the film's trailer.
In 2010, Fonda was cast in . She had a supporting role in 2011's Real Steel. She played Nadia in The Vampire Diaries. In 2018, she was cast in the role of Sarah in the Netflix series Altered Carbon.
In 2012, Olga appeared in television commercials for the related companies TJ Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods TV.
She is unrelated to the Fonda acting family and has said her reason for adopting that stage name "started as a mystery, I'm going to keep it a mystery. There’s really nothing to it but maybe one day I'll tell the story of how I got my name."

Personal life

Fonda became engaged to former actor Liam Waite on December 31, 2013. They married in mid-2015.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2006Nip/TuckElena1 episode
2007Ugly BettyModel #31 episode
2009How I Met Your MotherCandy1 episode
2009Melrose PlaceParty girl1 episode, uncredited
2010SvetlanaOlga1 episode
2013–2014The Vampire DiariesNadia PetrovaRecurring Season 5
2013NikitaLarissa1 episode
2015Agent XOlga PetrovkaRecurring Role
2016Hawaii Five-0Anna Novick1 episode
2018Altered CarbonSarah1 episode
2018My Dead ExMadame Fortuna

YearTitleRole
2005Unknown

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