Dasha Nekrasova

Nekrasova was born in Minsk, Belarus[4] to parents who worked as acrobats.[5] She emigrated to the United States with her parents when she was four, settling in Las Vegas, Nevada.[6]

She attended high school at Las Vegas Academy of the Arts, graduating in 2008, before attending Mills College, where she studied sociology and philosophy.[6]

Nekrasova first appeared in music videos for alternative artists such as Yumi Zouma,[7] before making her film debut in Wobble Palace, which she co-wrote with director Eugene Kotlyarenko.[1][8] The New York Times described the film as "a sendup of broke-artist types that shimmers with abashed affection",[1] while RogerEbert.com commented that "while your comedic milage with its loose goofiness may vary, this movie succeeds in contributing a filmic time capsule" for millenials.[8][1] She appeared as the leading character in the dark comedy The Softness of Bodies, with The Hollywood Reporter saying she inhabited the role "effortlessly".[5]

While promoting Wobble Palace at the 2018 South by Southwest Festival, her interview with right-wing media outlet InfoWars went viral.[2] She was nicknamed "Sailor Socialism" for expressing her support for Bernie Sanders, while dressed in an Japanese schoolgirl outfit resembling Sailor Moon.[2][3] The clip was featured in a segment on Venezuela in an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.[9]

On March 29, 2018, Nekrasova started the podcast Red Scare, with co-host Anna Khachiyan. The show has been associated with the dirtbag left[10][11][12] and described in The Cut as "a critique of feminism, and capitalism, from deep inside the culture they’ve spawned."[12] Daily Dot said the show's "schtick" had been summed up by former congressional staffer Simone Norman, as "when hot mean girls become public leftists."[13] The show has featured guest appearances by writers, artists, social commentators and leftist figures, including Angela Nagle, Vanessa Place, Simon Reynolds, Juliana Huxtable, Ariana Reines, Chapo Trap House's Amber A'Lee Frost, Tulsi Gabbard and Glenn Greenwald, as well as conservative personalities, such as Ross Douthat and Steve Bannon.[14] In September 2019, they interviewed social media influencer Caroline Calloway live at the Bell House in Brooklyn.[15][16][17]

In 2020, Nekrasova made her directorial debut with The Scary of 61st Street, a thriller co-written with Madeline Quinn, and inspired by the death of Jeffrey Epstein. The film is currently in post-production.[18] Later that year, Nekrasova and Quinn scripted the short film, Spectacular Reality, inspired by conspiracies surrounding crisis actors and featuring models from No Agency New York.[19]

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