Gana Bayarsaikhan

Mongolian performer Gana Bayarsaikhan works as an actress and model. She was born and raised in Ulaanbaatar, then began her career in modeling, with work in Schön magazine. After drama training, she worked with a coach on accepting her speech and accent for auditions. She first appeared on screen as Jade, an android, in Ex Machina (2015), alongside Domhnall Gleeson, and later had smaller parts as Khutu in Ben-Hur (2016) and in Wonder Woman (2017). She was the first Mongolian actress to take a Hollywood lead, playing the girl in Waiting for the Barbarians (2019), a film with Johnny Depp and Mark Rylance that had its premiere at the Venice International Film Festival. On television, she plays Tuva Olsen in the Sky series Intelligence, which began in 2020 and returned for a second series in 2021.