# Svetlana Efremova

Svetlana Efremova (born 1970; also known as Svetlana Efremova–Reed) is a Soviet-born American stage, film, and television actress as well as an educator. She starred in the American film White Oleander (2002). Efremova teaches acting at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), where she serves as the head of acting program.

## Biography

Efremova was born in 1970, in Novosibirsk, Soviet Union (now Russia). She graduated from Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (former name Saint Petersburg Theatre Arts Academy). She was a member of the St. Petersburg State Theatre for eleven years. Efremova moved to the United States for school, and received a master’s degree in 1997 in acting from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University.
Efremova is married to Patrick Reed, and has children.
She has appeared on Broadway in a touring production of Uncle Vanya, as Helena; and the touring production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, as Cassandra. Efremova has appeared in television series in the genres of drama, crime, and detective. Her film acting career took off in 2002, when she starred in the film, White Oleander directed by Peter Kosminsky. She portrayed Boris Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana Dyachenko who managed American political consultants in the American film Spinning Boris (2003).

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1988 | Fontan | Masha | |
| 2000 | Prince of Central Park | Sophia's Mom | |
| 2001 | Spiral | Clara | Short film |
| 2002 | White Oleander | Rena Gruschenka | |
| 2002 | Phone Booth | Erica | |
| 2003 | Hotel Lobby | Diana | |
| 2003 | Spinning Boris | Tatyana Dyachenko | |
| 2004 | Vremya zhatvy | Pevitsa | |
| 2005 | The Island | Midwife | |
| 2006 | A Cigar at the Beach | Woman in White | Short film |
| 2006 | Stick It | Dorrie | |
| 2006 | The Elder Son | Vera | |
| 2009 | Figa.ro | Terroristka | |
| 2012 | Killer by Nature | Dr. Ramos | |
| 2020 | Brighton Beach | Vera | |
| 2022 | Model | | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1997; 2003 | The Practice | Rena / Mrs. Vjorka | 2 episodes |
| 2001 | Gideon's Crossing | Sheila the Temp | Episode: "The Others" |
| 2002 | The Guardian | Maria Braczyk | Episode: "Solidarity" |
| 2002 | The West Wing | Ludmila Koss, Novaya Gazeta | Episode: "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" |
| 2002 | Thieves | Svetlana | Episode: "The Green and the Black" |
| 2003 | Strong Medicine | Corrina | 3 episodes |
| 2003 | Without a Trace | Yelena Tzetcovich | Episode: "Prodigy" |
| 2003 | Cold Case | Landlord | Episode: "Fly Away" |
| 2004 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Nina | Episode: "The Weatherman" |
| 2004 | Joan of Arcadia | Joan's Doctor | Episode: "Silence" |
| 2004 | ER | Impatient Woman | Episode: "Time of Death" |
| 2004–2005 | Judging Amy | Nadia Patzaikin | 2 episodes |
| 2007 | The Young and the Restless | Tour Guide | 1 episode |
| 2006–2007 | Monk | Nurse Ullman | 2 episodes |
| 2008 | Dirt | Anna Karpova | Episode: "Ties That (Don't) Bind" |
| 2010 | The Closer | Floria Stenzel | Episode: "Old Money" |
| 2011 | The Whole Truth | Ramsted's Girlfriend | Episode: "The State Calls Kathryn Peale" |
| 2011; 2013 | Body of Proof | Mrs. Svetlova / Husky Accented Voice | 2 episodes |
| 2013 | Motive | Dr. Monika Harper | Episode: "Out of the Past" |
| 2013 | Work It | Psychic | Episode: "Immaculate Deception" |
| 2014 | Shameless | Sasha | Episode: "Strangers On a Train" |
| 2015 | The Americans | Zinaida Preobrazhenskaya | Recurring role (season 3); 6 episodes |
| 2016 | Rizzoli & Isles | Katrin Ulmanis | Episode: "East Meets West" |
| 2016 | The OA | Zoya | Episode: "New Colossus" |
| 2017–2018 | NCIS: Los Angeles | Vladlena Sokolov | 2 episodes |
| 2017 | MacGyver | Olivia Prior | Episode: "Ruler" |
| 2017 | The Blacklist: Redemption | Grushenka | Episode: "Independence, U.S.A." |
| 2017 | House of Cards | Nadia Surkova | Episode: "Chapter 61" |
| 2017 | The Brave | Bathhouse Employee | Episode: "Moscow Rules" |
| 2017 | SEAL Team | Katya | Episode: "Rolling Dark" |
| 2020 | Spinning Out | Dasha Fedorova | Main role; 10 episodes |
| 2021 | Station 19 | Lenya Hughes | 2 episodes |
| 2023–2024 | For All Mankind | Irina Morozova | Main role (season 4); 8 episodes |