Sofya Skya

Sofya Skya is a Russian performer whose career takes in ballet, film acting, directing and coaching other actors. Born in Leningrad, she began dance lessons as a child, entered the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet at nine and later graduated from the Bashkir Choreographic College, dancing solo roles with the opera and ballet theater in Bashkortostan. She studied acting at the Baron Brown Studio in Los Angeles in 2008 and appeared that year in The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler. Her first leading part came in The Tomb (2009), based on Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia, and she took the lead in Assassins Run (2013) with Christian Slater and Cole Hauser. Later credits include Klub Schast'ya (2010), My Stepdaughter (2015), Opus of an Angel (2017), Welcome to Curiosity (2018) and Once There Was a War (2019), in which she played a Russian physician. She also led the opening ceremony for the 35th Moscow International Film Festival in 2013.