Eugenia Kuzmina

Early life

Kuzmina was born in Moscow, Soviet Union. Her father was a nuclear scientist. Her mother is a housewife. She was training to be a professional ice skater, when at the age of 14 was discovered by the Russian designer Slava Zaitsev. She starred in national commercials for Rc Cola, M&Ms, October chocolate and Russian TV shows like Pole Chudes and Yeralash before being approached by a talent scout from Paris.

Career

Kuzmina's modeling career took off when she started working with Nathalie Models, Ford Models Europe and then with IMG.

She was the cover girl for the August 2004 edition of Glamour and has been featured in advertisements for Armani Jeans, Dior sunglasses, GAP, Arden B, Express, Kenzi, Replay Jeans, Sephora, and L'Oreal. She has been also featured in magazines, such as Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, Japanese and Russian Vogue, GQ, Self, Shape, As well as catalogs for Hermès and Cartier.

She was featured in a music video for David Hallyday, then Passion Pit , and Demi Lovato and transitioned into film work with a short film, Likeness directed by Rodrigo Prieto, starring Elle Fanning. Her first TV appearance was in the hit show True Blood. She portrayed a fairy. Right after she was cast in a FOX show New Girl as a model, ABC show Castle as an FBI agent opposite Stana Katic, Netflix show "The Comeback" as a Russian prostitute opposite Lisa Kudrow, Lady Dynamite show with Maria Bamford, etc. Her first starring movie role was in the independent horror film Quarantine L.A. After that, she played opposite John Turturro in a feature film Fading Gigolo , opposite Bill Murray in film "Rock The Kassbah " , was featured in the film Dirty Grandpa opposite Zac Effron, has a cameo in Bad Moms and appeared in TV Movie "Tour de Pharmacy" opposite Andy Samberg and Orlando Bloom

Kuzmina is passionate about comedy and can frequently be seen doing stand up at The Comedy Store, Flappers and performing improv at UCB.