Ivanna Sakhno

Ivanna Anatoliyivna Sakhno (Ukrainian: Іванна Анатоліївна Сахно; born 14 November 1997) is a Ukrainian actress, known for her role as Cadet Viktoriya in the science fiction monster film Pacific Rim Uprising (2018). She will play Nadedja in the upcoming action comedy film The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018). Before moving in 2013 to the US and making it in Hollywood, Sakhno achieved certain prominence in Ukraine after appearing in 2005 in the first ever Ukrainian-language sitcom Lesia + Roma and later in 2013 in a Ukrainian biopic feature film "Ivan the Powerful". Biography Sakhno was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in a family of local film producers. Her dream of movies started when in 2004 she watched the film Amélie. Sakhno studied at Beverly Hills High School and later Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. At the Lee Strasberg Institute, she worked with Ivana Chubbuck. In 2012 Sakhno graduated the Janet Hirshenson casting shop. She first appeared in the 2005 TV series Lesya + Roma (Ukrainian adaptation of the successful Canadian sitcom Un gars, une fille) and her debut feature film role was in 2013 biopic film Ivan the Powerful. Her first major Hollywood role came in Thomas Dunn's 2016 thriller film The Body Tree. At the 2015 Cannes Film Festival Sakhno expressed her support for Ukrainian political prisoners held by the Russian Federation authorities.