Annet Mahendru

Mahendru is the child of Mahendru, who has a Russian Indian mother as well as an Afghan Hindu father. She is fluent with German Russian and English and also speaks French Persian and Hindi. Annet Mahendru's parents are Russian as well as Indian. When she was 11 she choreographed and danced in a show that resulted in the honor of a German television show. The show included a snow maiden from Russia that transformed into an entertaining Indian dancer. She finished high school at the age of 11 in New York and received a Bachelor of Arts in English at St. John's University. After her high school years, she took acting classes at HB however she opted to improvise at Groundlings School. She then took on several comedy roles. Her family was brought up in Kabul Afghanistan by a Hindu/Indian father Ghanshan Mahendru, and a Russian-speaking mother Olga. The family moved together with their father to East Meadow, New York at the age of thirteen years old. She is a part of FX's The Americans alongside Matthew Rhys. Television actress best known for her portrayal of the former KGB Agent Nina Sergeevna Krilova on FX's The Americans. She was a character who appeared in The Following on Fox, The Following, and NBC's The Blacklist.