Karolina Wydra
Karolina Wydra ( ; born March 5, 1981) is a Polish-American actress and model. She played Dominika Petrova on the Fox medical drama series "House", and vampire Violet Mazurski on the HBO dark fantasy series "True Blood". Wydra has starred in the fantasy thriller "After" (2012), and the science fiction film "Europa Report" (2013). She portrayed Detective Dianne Kubek on ABC's short-lived crime drama series "Wicked City" and recurred as Izel in "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Early life and education. Wydra was born in Opole, Poland with a rare left eye coloboma birth defect in which the iris  of the eye does not grow closed during gestation. Her mother and father were teachers of mathematics and art, respectively. In 1992, she and her family emigrated to Orange County, California, where her parents set up a cleaning business. Her parents separated in 2012, and her mother subsequently moved back to Poland. Career. In October 1997, Wydra won the Elite Lee Jeans Model Look Contest, which was hosted by Roshumba Williams and Dorian Gregory. She has since appeared in print advertisements for brands such as Armani Exchange, Levi's Red, Calvin Klein, Smashbox Cosmetics, Dooney & Bourke, Charles David, Urban Decay , John Frieda, and Kenneth Cole. Wydra has also appeared as a model on the cover of the German "Elle" magazine and "Oyster" magazine. In 2006, Wydra starred in a Nespresso commercial with George Clooney. In 2008, she co-starred in the comedy-drama film "Be Kind Rewind", directed by Michel Gondry, and the sports drama film "Sugar", directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. She then co-starred in the 2011 romantic comedy film "Crazy, Stupid, Love" as Jordyn. From 2011 to 2012, she appeared on the seventh and eighth seasons of the Fox medical drama series "House", playing the  role of Dominika Petrova, an immigrant who marries House in order to obtain a green card. Wydra then had a starring role in the 2012 fantasy thriller "After", alongside Steven Strait. The following year, she had a lead role as Katya Petrovna in the science fiction film "Europa Report". In March 2013, she was cast in the pilot of NBC's remake of the British drama series "Bad Girls". In 2013, Wydra joined the cast of HBO's fantasy drama series "True Blood" as Violet Mazurski, a vampire who becomes Jason Stackhouse's girlfriend. In the sixth season, Wydra was  a recurring cast member, but was upgraded to the main cast for its seventh and final season. In 2014, Wydra recurred as the character Mara Paxton on the fifth season of FX's drama series "Justified", and guest starred as Agent Simone Taylor in an episode of the CBS drama series "Scorpion". Wydra then co-starred alongside Aaron Eckhart in the Blumhouse Productions horror film "Incarnate" (2015), directed by Brad Peyton. In 2015, she joined the cast of ABC's crime drama series "Wicked City" as Dianne Kubek, a beautiful detective working undercover as a barmaid and drug dealer on  the Sunset Strip. In April 2016, it was announced that Wydra had been cast in the Showtime series revival of "Twin Peaks". In August 2016, she joined the Amazon Studios drama series "Sneaky Pete" in a recurring role. Personal life. Wydra lives in Los Angeles. She has one older brother, an accountant, who lives in London.