Olga Fonda
Olga Tchakova (; known professionally as Olga Fonda) is a Russian-American film and television actress and model. She is also known for her role as Nadia Petrova in The Vampire Diaries (2013-2014). 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, [and so] 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.