Olga Kalashnikova

Olga Kalashnikova is an American actress born in Belarus to a Ukrainianborn mother Liudmila and a Belarusianborn father Aliaksandr and is fluent in Russian Her mother is a former college professor of ethics esthetics and the Russian language who instilled in Olga a taste for arts fashion and European sophistication Olgas father was an electronics engineer and a computer scientist who wore Levis jeans owned a collection of The Beatles records and passed his sense of humor on to Olga and her younger brother Dzmitry During her years in Belarus Olga studied arts and languages and was on her high schools swim team She started studying English at the age of six When she was nine she was among the first children from Belarus to go abroad and spend a year living with a host family in Ireland Thats where she was first introduced to theater at a local school She recalls with laughter that her first lines From Prince Ahhh Give it to me were delivered in an Irish accent at the schools Cinderella production But it wasnt until Olga won a meritbased scholarship to attend Minsk State Linguistic University that she tried her performing skills on stage again In college Olga joined the KVN comedy club and became a comedy show host for two years Her selfmade character was a sexygeeky student of linguistics and her seductive manner of delivering jokes was infamously copied throughout college olgakalashnikova