Biography
Svetlana Efremova is a Soviet-born American stage, film and television actress and educator. Born in 1970 in Novosibirsk, Russia, she trained at the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, where she received a BFA, and at Yale University, where she earned an MFA in acting.
She has appeared in films including White Oleander (2002), Phone Booth (2003) and The Island (2005). On television she has played roles in series such as House of Cards (2013), The Americans (2013), SEAL Team (2017) and Spinning Out (2020), in which she portrayed Dasha Fedorova. Efremova teaches acting at California State University, Fullerton, where she heads the acting programme, and has performed in touring Broadway productions including Uncle Vanya.
