Annet Mahendru

Mahendru is an Afghani female born of an Russian father and a Hindu Indian mother. Mahendru speaks fluent German Russian, English as well as French Persian and Hindi. The parents of Annet Mahendru are Russian and Indian. She developed a choreography that earned her the chance to be a guest on German TV as an Russian snowmaiden. She later transformed into another Indian dancer. She finished high school at the age of 11 in New York and received a Bachelor of Arts in English at St. John's University. Following school, she began acting classes at the HB Studio, but she quit to pursue improvisation classes in the Groundlings School taking on several comedy-related projects afterward. Her birthplace was in Kabul Afghanistan to a Hindu-Indian father Ghanshan Ken Mahendru and a Russian mom Olga. She moved with her father to New York's East Meadow York at the age of thirteen year old. She appears on FX's The Americans alongside Matthew Rhys. She is best known as the ex- KGB agent Nina Sergeevna Krilova in FX's The Americans. Her recurring role in Fox's The Following and NBC's The Blacklist.