People have told me for years I should be in front of a camera or a mic, not just designing the room around it. I'm Russian-born, bilingual in English and Russian, and I move naturally between accents and characters without trying too hard. For over a decade I've run my own interior design studio, pitching concepts, reading clients, holding a room, which is its own kind of performance. I'm animated, petite, and read younger than I am. No formal training, no agent, just a decade of real-world performance I didn't call acting until now. I'm testing the water on something I think is already there.