Dasha Nekrasova
Belarusian-American actress and podcaster
Daria "Dasha" Dmitrievna Nekrasova (born February 19, 1991) is a Soviet-born American actress, filmmaker, and co-host of the Red Scare podcast with Anna Khachiyan, based in Dimes Square, New York City.
In 2018, she became known as "Sailor Socialism" after her interview with an InfoWars reporter, in which she was dressed in a sailor fuku, went viral. In 2021, she made her directorial debut with the horror film The Scary of Sixty-First, for which she won the Best First Feature Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, and appeared in a recurring role as Comfrey on the TV series Succession.
Early life
Nekrasova was born in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union (now Belarus), to parents who worked as acrobats. She emigrated to the United States with her parents when she was four, settling in Las Vegas, Nevada. In an October 2025 episode of Red Scare, Nekrasova stated that a DNA test showed she had no Russian ancestry and instead identified her heritage as Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian, and Belarusian.
Nekrasova graduated high school in 2008 at Las Vegas Academy of the Arts. She later attended Berkeley City College and transferred to Mills College, where she studied sociology and philosophy and graduated in 2012. The focus of her study was 19th-century German philosophy, in particular Friedrich Nietzsche, which she said influenced her "[less] politically as it did aesthetically".
Career
Nekrasova first appeared in music videos for alternative artists such as Yumi Zouma and Tocotronic, before making her feature film debut in Wobble Palace, which she co-wrote with director Eugene Kotlyarenko.
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