Margarita Levieva
Also Known As: マルガリータ・レヴィエヴァ, مارگاریتا لویوا
Biography: Margarita Vladimirovna Levieva (born February 9, 1980) is an American actress. Levieva was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia), into a family of Russian Jewish descent. Both of her grandmothers, as children, survived the siege of Leningrad during World War II. From the age of three, she began to engage in rhythmic gymnastics. Levieva immigrated to the United States at age 11 with her mother and twin brother, Michael, and settled in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Though she was accepted into Laguardia High School to study dance, she instead attended public high school in Secaucus, New Jersey. In addition to working full-time as a fashion buyer, Levieva graduated a year early from New York University with a double major in economics and psychology and minors in philosophy, sociology, and Russian history. Levieva went on to complete the Meisner Acting Program at the William Esper Studio in New York. In 2005, Levieva made a guest appearance on Law & Order: Trial by Jury, and in the following two years starred in the Fox series Vanished and feature films The Invisible, Billy's Choice, and Noise. Levieva starred in the 2019 independent film Inherit the Viper. Her other film credits include It Happened in L.A. (2017), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015), Sleeping with Other People (2015), James White (2015), For Ellen (2012), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), Adventureland (2009), and Spread (2009). In 2009, Levieva made an appearance in the NBC drama Kings (in the episode "First Night"), starred in the play The Retributionists, and made her Broadway debut in Impressionism. She also starred in the HBO comedy-drama series How to Make It in America. Levieva's television appearances include her series regular roles in the ABC drama series Revenge (2011–2015) and in the HBO series The Deuce (2016–2019). In The Deuce, Levieva played Abby Parker, an adventurous college student. Levieva stars as Jenny Franklin in the 2022 Netflix series In From the Cold. Jenny is a single mother from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, who, during a European vacation with her daughter, finds her life turned upside down when the CIA forces her to confront her long-buried past as a Russian spy, the product of a secret KGB experiment that endowed her with "special abilities." She was cast in the Star Wars spinoff series The Acolyte and is also set to star in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Daredevil: Born Again as Heather Glenn, the love interest of Matt Murdock/Daredevil. Levieva announced that she was expecting a baby on Mother's Day in 2022. She revealed her baby is a boy on the next Mother's Day in 2023. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margarita Levieva, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
Birthday: February 09, 1980
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Gender: Female
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The Invisible
Overview: After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.
Genres: Fantasy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-27
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Noise
Overview: A man who is being driven crazy by the noise in New York City decides to take vigilante action against it.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-06
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Adventureland
Overview: In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-03
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The Lincoln Lawyer
Overview: Mick Haller is a charismatic defense attorney who does business out of his Lincoln Continental sedan. Mick spends most of his time defending petty crooks and other bottom-feeders, so it comes as quite a surprise when he lands the case of a lifetime: defending a Beverly Hills playboy who is accused of attempted murder. However, what Mick initially thinks is an open-and-shut case with a big monetary reward develops into something more sinister.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-17
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Knights of Badassdom
Overview: Three best friends and dedicated roleplayers take to the woods to reenact a dungeons and dragons-like scenario as a live action role-playing game. Trouble arises when a prop spellbook purchased from the internet ends up being a genuine grimoire and they unwittingly conjure up a blood-lusting succubus from hell.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-21
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For Ellen
Overview: After an overnight long-distance drive, Joby has a special meeting—with lawyers and his ex-wife. A struggling musician with the prerequisite tattoos, slimy hair, goatee, and his head firmly floating in the clouds, Joby hasn’t been around to be a dad. Now is his last chance to fight for shared custody of his daughter, Ellen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-12
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The Stand Up
Overview: After his girlfriend's tragic death, devastated stand-up comic Zoe Hardwick drops his budding career on stage and moves back home. But when his father, the principal of an elementary school, lands him a gig teaching kindergarten, Zoe finds himself standing before a very different demographic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-14
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Spread
Overview: A gigolo must contend with the prospect that he has found true love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-16
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Express 'Moscow-Russia'
Overview: This is a story about a guy who is willing to sell the soul, just to dial million views for your videos on YouTube. On the way to his goal, he turns into a fast train "Moscow - Vladivostok», where faced with an American actress, suffering aerophobia. On the way strangers expect such adventures that they lag behind the train that trying to catch up, moving our unpredictable and fabulous Mother Russia - After each of them need to be in Vladivostok exactly 7 days - for reasons which they carefully conceal from each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-04-17
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Salted Nuts
Overview: Two losers that work at a run down taco hut are forced to make one thousand dollars by closing time, or they will get fired.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-06
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The Gymnast
Overview: An aspiring Olympic gymnast and her single father who has dedicated himself to his daughter’s success. When the young athlete suffers a potentially career-ending injury, their relationship suffers as they fight to discover who they are without gymnastics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Overview: Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-07
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What's Not to Love?
Overview: The twisted, sexually offbeat memoir by author Jonathan Ames becomes this original adaptation about the sexual peccadilloes of the writer (playing himself) as he experiences masculinity first hand and lives to write about it. Based on Ames' inflammatory, exquisitely worded, and often tastelessly brilliant columns for the "New York Press."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-10
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Sweating In The Night
Overview: A young man revisits his past in search of the girl of his dreams. He finds her - and her psychopath boyfriend.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Sleeping with Other People
Overview: Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship. Determined to stay friends despite their mutual attraction, they make a pact to keep it platonic, a deal that proves easier said than done.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-26
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It Happened in L.A.
Overview: Annette might be judgmental, critical, and a total perfectionist—but only of the most charming variety. When she suddenly perceives that her relationship with her boyfriend, Elliot, is inferior to all the happy coupledom she sees among her friends, she decides they need to break up. Launched into the LA dating scene, where film industry jobs, old school bars, and elitist consumerism are the norm, Annette begins to realize that maybe meeting some cool new guy isn’t going to lead her to personal fulfillment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-03
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The Loft
Overview: For five men, the opportunity to share a penthouse in the city -- in which to carry on extramarital affairs -- is a dream come true, until the dead body of an unknown woman turns up. Realizing that her killer must be one of their group, the men are gripped by paranoia as each one suspects another. Friendships are tested, loyalties are questioned, and marriages crumble while fear and suspicion run rampant.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-14
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James White
Overview: James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more responsibility. With the pressure on him mounting, James must find new reserves of strength or risk imploding completely.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-13
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Future World
Overview: A young boy searches a future world wasteland for a rumored cure for his dying mother.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-25
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Inherit the Viper
Overview: Since the death of their father, the Riley siblings have kept their heads above water by illegally dealing in painkillers. Josie is managing the business with an iron fist, when her brother, War veteran Kip, is concerned that the risky business is increasingly turning them into outsiders in their small community. While Kip wants to keep his younger brother out of their illegal endeavors, his younger brother is already making plans of his own.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-28
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