Annet Mahendru

Mahendru, a Russian-Indian mother was born in Afghanistan. She is fluent in German, Russian and English as well as French Persian and Hindi. Her parents are Russian and Indian. She choreographed an 11-year-old performance which led to her being an appearance on German TV appearance as a Russian Snow Maiden, who turns into an energetic Indian dancer. After high school, she graduated and earned a bachelor's degree from the Department of English from New York. The classes she took in acting were with the HB Studios. She later moved on to pursue improvised comedy at The Groundlings School. Her parents were Hindu as well as an Indian father, Ghanshan K Mahendru, a Russian mother, Olga. Their parents split at the age of 13 older and they relocated from the city of her birth to East Meadow New York with her father.She is a part of Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell in FX's The Americans. Television actress who plays the former KGB agent Nina Sergeevna Krilova, on FX's The Americans. She was a character who appeared on the Fox series The Following, and NBC's The Blacklist.