# Dasha Nekrasova

Daria Dmitrievna "Dasha" Nekrasova (born February 19, 1991) is an American actress, filmmaker, and co-host of the Red Scare podcast with Anna Khachiyan, based in Dimes Square, New York City.
In 2018, she became known as "Sailor Socialism" after her interview with an InfoWars reporter, in which she was dressed in a sailor fuku, went viral. In 2021, she made her directorial debut with the horror film The Scary of Sixty-First, for which she won the Best First Feature Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, and appeared in a recurring role on the TV series Succession for which the cast won a Screen Actors Guild award.

## Early life

Nekrasova was born in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union (now Belarus), to parents who worked as acrobats. She emigrated to the United States with her parents when she was four, settling in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Nekrasova graduated high school in 2008 at Las Vegas Academy of the Arts. She later attended Berkeley City College and transferred to Mills College, where she studied sociology and philosophy and graduated in 2012.

## Career

Nekrasova first appeared in music videos for alternative artists such as Yumi Zouma, before making her feature film debut in Wobble Palace, which she co-wrote with director Eugene Kotlyarenko. The New York Times described the film as "a sendup of broke-artist types that shimmers with abashed affection", 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 millennials. She appeared as the leading character in the dark comedy The Softness of Bodies, with The Hollywood Reporter saying she inhabited the role "effortlessly".
While promoting Wobble Palace at the 2018 South by Southwest Festival, her interview with right-wing media outlet InfoWars went viral. She was nicknamed "Sailor Socialism" for expressing her support for Bernie Sanders while dressed in a Japanese schoolgirl outfit resembling Sailor Moon. The clip was featured in a segment on Venezuela in an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
On March 29, 2018, Nekrasova started the podcast Red Scare with co-host Anna Khachiyan. The show has been associated with the dirtbag left. It was described in The Cut as "a critique of feminism, and capitalism, from deep inside the culture they’ve spawned." 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."
In February 2019, Nekrasova appeared – alongside Khachiyan – as a runway model at the Marlborough art gallery in Manhattan showcasing the Fall 2019 collection designed by Rachel Comey. 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. The film premiered at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival and won the prize for Best First Feature. Later that year, Nekrasova co-wrote the short film, Spectacular Reality, inspired by conspiracy theories surrounding crisis actors and featuring models from No Agency New York, 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.
In November 2021, Nekrasova posted to Instagram a photo of herself with Alex Jones, the host of Infowars, and subsequently praised Jones on her podcast Red Scare as "an incredible entertainer".
Nekrasova appears in a supporting role in season three of the HBO drama Succession as Comfrey, a crisis PR rep.
In February 2024 it was reported that Nekrasova would be an inspiration for a track on Charli XCX's forthcoming sixth album. This was then confirmed by Nekrasova in June on her podcast as being the track Mean Girls, stating "Yeah, the Charli song is kind of like a party girl anthem. It’s a great song. She sent it to me a couple of months ago and told me about it."

## Personal life

She was formerly engaged to comedian and internet talk-show host Adam Friedland.

## Religious views

Nekrasova is a self-described "Slovak Ruthenian Carpatho-Rusyn Greek" Eastern Catholic. In a 2020 interview, Nekrasova stated:
   Catholicism is nice because it involves a whole body of work outside of the Bible—it's a very aesthetic, literary religion. My faith is just something that's improved the quality of my life, my thoughts, and my relationships [...] What's so great about faith is that it doesn't have to be grounded in rational thought. We are seeing a lot of people return to religion because everything feels so senseless and pointless, so why not be a Catholic?
Nekrasova is highly critical of Pope Francis, and has referred to him as a "layperson", "heretic", and "antipope".

## Filmography

| Year | Film/Series | Role | Notes |
| 2014 | Cotton | Sasha | Web series |
| 2015 | The Eating Place | Fiona | Short |
| 2015 | Hypochrondria | Belinda | Short |
| 2015 | The Lotus Gun | Daphine | Short |
| 2016 | The Sound of Blue, Green and Red | Jenny | Short |
| 2017 | That Abominable Mystery | Alex | Short |
| 2017 | My Boss Told Me to Have a Good Day, so I Went Home | Herself | Fashion film created for FFFM 2017 |
| 2017 | The Art of Eating | Lily | Short |
| 2017 | Prowler | The Nurse | Short |
| 2017 | Steps | Orphan #2 | Web series |
| 2017 | Normalize | Ms. Push Buttons | Short |
| 2017 | The Darby Bonarsky Story | Darby Bonarsky | Short; also co-writer |
| 2018 | Nothing Bad Will Happen | Woman | Short |
| 2018 | Wobble Palace | Jane | Also co-writer |
| 2018 | Softness of Bodies | Charlotte Parks | |
| 2018 | The Ghost Who Walks | Mitzie | |
| 2019 | Black Earth | Mimi | |
| 2019 | Mr. Robot | Celeste | Episode: "401 Unauthorized" |
| 2019 | Disco Elysium | Klaasje Amandou | Voice; original release only, replaced in The Final Cut |
| 2019 | Cake | Barbara | Episode: "Headspace" Segment: "Oh Jerome, No: Help Needed" |
| 2019 | Dickinson | Ellen Mandeville Grout | Episode: "'Faith' is a fine invention" |
| 2019 | Sunday Girl | Natasha | |
| 2020 | The Shivering Truth | Mrs. Minugm | Voice; Episode: "The Diff" |
| 2020 | PVT Chat | QT4U | |
| 2020 | We Are | Vera | |
| 2021 | The Serpent | Connie-Jo Bronzich | Episode: "Episode Four" |
| 2021 | The Scary of Sixty-First | The Girl | Also writer and director |
| 2021 | Succession | Comfrey Pellits | 9 episodes |
| 2023 | Bad Behaviour | Beverly Woods | |
| 2023 | The Beast | Dakota | |
| 2025 | Materialists | | Post-production |

### Music videos

* "Don't Care" – Antwon, featuring Sad Andy (2014)
* "Basements" – Future Death (2014)
* "The Brae" – Yumi Zouma (2014)
* "A Long Walk Home for Parted Lovers" – Yumi Zouma (2014)
* "Prolog" – Tocotronic (2015)
* "Rebel Boy" – Tocotronic (2015)
* "I Don't Love You" – DJDS (2016)
* "Taking What's Not Yours" – TV Girl (2016)
* "Vinaigrette" – Gonjasufi (2016)

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
| 2021 | Berlin International Film Festival | Best First Feature Award | The Scary of Sixty-First | Won | |
| 2022 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | Succession | Won | |