Sofia Vassilieva's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Medium Ariel Dubois

Main Movie Roles 2009 - Hurt 2007 - Day Zero

BIOGRAPHY:

Sofia Vladimirovna Vassilieva (born October 22, 1992)Vassilieva was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the daughter of Russian immigrant parents Larissa Vassilieva, a biologist, and Vladimir Vassiliev, a physicist, both from Novosibirsk ,At the age of seven, she was discovered at the International Modeling and Talent Association (IMTA) in New York where she won the title of Child Actress and first runner-up Child Model Of The Year 2000 ,She won two Young Artist Award ,In less than one year she had the part of Elena—the granddaughter of a retired Russian General—in the episode "Deadline" of the CBS television series The Agency(2001–2003).more tv roles followed .
She speaks fluent Russian, French, English and Spanish,
At age 11, in May 2004, Sofia began playing the role of Ariel DuBois in Medium.


TRIVIA:

• By 14, she has already visited Italy, Austria, France, Canada, England, Japan, Spain, and Russia including Siberia.
• Her mother has a Ph.D in Behavioral and Evolutionary Genetics and father has a Ph.D in High Energy Physics and Astrophysics.
• Is a vegetarian since 2004.
• She was nominated for a Syfyportal Genre Award as best young actor/actress for her role in Medium, lost the award to Harry Potter's 'Daniel Radcliffe' (qv).
• Was born at 2:22 and 22 sec. pm, CDT.
• Started taking ballet at 3, gymnastics at 5, playing piano at 7, riding horses at 10, and recently became fascinated by yoga.
• At the age of 13 her favorite movie was _In Love and War (1996)_ (qv) and later - _Andrey Rublyov (1966)_ (qv), _Solyaris (1972)_ (qv), and _Stalker (1979)_ (qv) by Andrei Tarkovsky and _La môme (2007)_ (qv) by 'Olivier Dahan' (qv) with 'Marion Cotillard' (qv). More recently it is _12 (2007)_ (qv) by 'Nikita Mikhalkov' (qv).
• Before moving to Los Angeles at 11, she lived in Minnesota, Oregon, Arizona and Utah.