Dasha Nekrasova

Nekrasova was born in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union (now Belarus), to parents who worked as acrobats. She emigrated to the United States with her parents when she was four, settling in Las Vegas, Nevada. In an October 2025 episode of Red Scare, Nekrasova stated that a DNA test showed she had no Russian ancestry and instead identified her heritage as Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian, and Belarusian. Nekrasova graduated high school in 2008 at Las Vegas Academy of the Arts. She later attended Berkeley City College and transferred to Mills College, where she studied sociology and philosophy and graduated in 2012. == Career ==

Nekrasova first appeared in music videos for alternative artists such as Yumi Zouma and Tocotronic, The New York Times described the film as "a sendup of broke-artist types that shimmers with abashed affection", On March 29, 2018, Nekrasova started the podcast Red Scare with co-host Anna Khachiyan. The show was initially associated with the dirtbag left. Daily Dot said the show's "schtick" had been summed up by former congressional staffer Simone Norman, as "when hot mean girls become public leftists." However, in recent years, the show has been identified more with the new right. In February 2019, Nekrasova appeared – alongside Khachiyan – as a runway model at the Marlborough art gallery in Manhattan showcasing the Fall 2019 collection designed by Rachel Comey. In 2020, Nekrasova made her directorial debut with The Scary of Sixty-First, a thriller co-written with Madeline Quinn, and inspired by the death of Jeffrey Epstein. The film premiered at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival and won the prize for Best First Feature. Later that year, Nekrasova co-wrote the short film, Spectacular Reality, inspired by conspiracy theories surrounding crisis actors and featuring models from No Agency New York, and directed the November 6, 2020 video performance of Oneohtrix Point Never's "I Don't Love Me Anymore" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. In November 2021, Nekrasova posted to Instagram a photo of herself with Alex Jones, the host of Infowars, and subsequently praised Jones on her podcast Red Scare as "an incredible entertainer". Nekrasova appears in a supporting role in season three of the HBO drama Succession as Comfrey, a crisis PR rep. In February 2024, it was reported that Nekrasova would be an inspiration for a track on Charli XCX's Brat. This was then confirmed by Nekrasova in June on her podcast as being the track "Mean Girls", stating "Yeah, the Charli song is kind of like a party girl anthem. It's a great song. She sent it to me a couple of months ago and told me about it." ==Personal life==

Nekrasova was formerly engaged to comedian and talk show host Adam Friedland, whom she dated from 2018 to 2020. In May 2025, Nekrasova married Reilly Sinanan, a carpenter who works in historic renovations. Political views Nekrasova voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 US presidential election, after having supported Bernie Sanders in 2016. In July 2024, she told Michael Tracey on the System Update podcast: "I genuinely do love Donald Trump for the way he makes me feel. I did watch some of the RNC – I found some of it pretty electrifying. I think, in terms of images I like to see, I love Donald Trump." In February 2023, Nekrasova debated political polarization at the Yale Political Union, where she spoke in favor of polarization, declaring that, in the aesthetics of political discourse, "extremism is sexy." In March 2023, Nekrasova and Khachiyan attended a New York Young Republican Club party featuring Roger Stone, and in 2025 she attended a party in celebration of Trump's inauguration alongside right-wing figures such as Steve Bannon and Curtis Yarvin. In January 2025, Nekrasova said that she hoped Trump would withdraw military aid for Ukraine, as he had promised during the election, and hoped that he "ends the war". She said this was a reason she had voted for Trump. In November 2025, Nekrasova was fired by The Gersh Agency and dropped from the upcoming film Iconoclast following her podcast interview with far-right commentator Nick Fuentes. In the interview on her podcast, Red Scare, Nekrasova praised Fuentes with comments such as "I'm such a fan, honestly." Additionally Nekrasova, Khachiyan and Fuentes discussed "international Jewry" multiple times, advancing offensive stereotypes about Jews, Italians, Asians and others. Religious beliefs Nekrasova is a self-described "Slovak-Ruthenian Greek" Eastern Catholic. She is a revert to Catholicism. She has been described as part of a conservative trend towards the Catholic Church as an aesthetic reaction against contemporary social progressivism. In a 2020 interview, Nekrasova stated: Nekrasova was highly critical of Pope Francis, referring to him as a "layperson", "heretic", and "antipope", and has discussed on her podcast the topic of sedevacantism, the belief that all popes since Pope Pius XII are invalid as a result of the Second Vatican Council. Nekrasova has said that "Francis is not the real Pope, we all know it ... You're not gonna get rid of the Freemasons. You're not gonna get rid of the Jews. They infiltrated the Church a long time ago." == Filmography ==

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