Annet Mahendru

Mahendru's parents are Russian and a Hindu Indian. She was born in Afghanistan. She is fluent in German Russian and English and also speaks French Persian and Hindi. Annet Mahendru is the daughter of an Indian father, as well as an Indian father and a Russian mother. When she was 11 she choreographed and performed a dance that resulted in a German TV appearance. The dance was a Russian snow girl that transformed into an entertaining Indian dancer. She graduated from high school and earned a bachelor's degree in English from New York. In her high school years, she took acting classes at HB but left for improv classes at Groundlings School. She then took on several comedy roles. Her parents were the mother of an Afghani Hindu-Indian and Russian father in Kabul in Afghanistan. Their parents split when she turned 13 years old young and moved from the city of her birth to East Meadow New York with her father.She appears alongside Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell on The Americans on FX. The Americans. Television actress who plays the former KGB agent Nina Sergeevna Krilova, on FX's The Americans. The actress has a regular appearance on Fox's The Following and NBC's The Blacklist.