Nina Arianda Matijcio (born September 18, 1984) is an American
actress. She won the 2012 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for
her performance as Vanda Jordan in Venus in Fur and was nominated for
the 2011 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for portraying Billie
Dawn in Born Yesterday. She stars in Amazon Studios legal series
Goliath and starred in the biographical film Stan & Ollie (2018) as
Stan Laurel's wife Ida Kitaeva Laurel.Arianda was born in Manhattan.
Her parents were born in Germany to Ukrainian families. She grew up in
Clifton, New Jersey and Heidelberg, Germany. She earned a Bachelor of
Arts at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts and a
Master of Fine Arts at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts
Graduate Acting Program in 2009.Arianda made her Broadway debut in
April 2011 in the lead role of Billie Dawn in the Broadway production
of Born Yesterday, with James Belushi and Robert Sean Leonard. She
appeared Off-Broadway as Vanda Jourdain in the comedy-drama play Venus
in Fur in 2010. The play then transferred to the Samuel J. Friedman
Theatre on Broadway in early November 2011, and her performance
received critical acclaim.She starred in the Manhattan Theatre Club's
production of Tales From Red Vienna in 2014, and has appeared in
several films including Win Win, Tower Heist, Midnight in Paris, Rob
the Mob, and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby. She was cast in
January 2015 for Hannibal season 3 as Molly, the wife of Will Graham
(played by her former Broadway co-star Hugh Dancy).
actress. She won the 2012 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for
her performance as Vanda Jordan in Venus in Fur and was nominated for
the 2011 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for portraying Billie
Dawn in Born Yesterday. She stars in Amazon Studios legal series
Goliath and starred in the biographical film Stan & Ollie (2018) as
Stan Laurel's wife Ida Kitaeva Laurel.Arianda was born in Manhattan.
Her parents were born in Germany to Ukrainian families. She grew up in
Clifton, New Jersey and Heidelberg, Germany. She earned a Bachelor of
Arts at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts and a
Master of Fine Arts at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts
Graduate Acting Program in 2009.Arianda made her Broadway debut in
April 2011 in the lead role of Billie Dawn in the Broadway production
of Born Yesterday, with James Belushi and Robert Sean Leonard. She
appeared Off-Broadway as Vanda Jourdain in the comedy-drama play Venus
in Fur in 2010. The play then transferred to the Samuel J. Friedman
Theatre on Broadway in early November 2011, and her performance
received critical acclaim.She starred in the Manhattan Theatre Club's
production of Tales From Red Vienna in 2014, and has appeared in
several films including Win Win, Tower Heist, Midnight in Paris, Rob
the Mob, and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby. She was cast in
January 2015 for Hannibal season 3 as Molly, the wife of Will Graham
(played by her former Broadway co-star Hugh Dancy).
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