Ivanna Sakhno

Ivanna Sakhno was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 14 November 1997 to a family of local filmmakers. Her parents are , a director, and Anatolii Sakhno, a cinematographer. Her dream of acting started in 2004 when she watched the film Amélie. == Career ==

Sakhno's first television appearance was in the 2005 series Lesya + Roma (a Ukrainian adaptation of the successful Canadian sitcom Un gars, une fille) and her debut feature film role was as "Milka" in the 2013 biopic film, Ivan the Powerful. Her first major Hollywood role was in Thomas Dunn's 2016 thriller film The Body Tree. She followed this with roles in two big budget 2018 releases, Pacific Rim Uprising and The Spy Who Dumped Me. In 2019, Sakhno was a member of the jury of the International Competition Program of the 10th Odesa International Film Festival. In August 2020, she was a member of the jury of the 49th Molodist Film Festival. In the same year she starred in the thriller film Let it Snow, directed by Ukrainian filmmaker Stanislav Kapralov. She also appeared in the 2022 French limited series The Reunion (La jeune fille et la nuit). In November 2021, she was cast in the Disney+ series Ahsoka, which is part of the Star Wars franchise. == Activism ==

At the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Sakhno expressed her support for Ukrainian political prisoners held by Russian authorities. She also was a participant in the Artists for Ukraine fundraising event showcasing Ukrainian art to benefit Ukrainian children displaced by the war. She became an Ambassador of Ukraine's official fundraising platform United24 in the Education and Science direction in May. Sakhno avoids playing Russian characters. During the COVID-19 lockdowns period, she broke a contract with Netflix that would have required her to portray a person with a Soviet Russian background. == Filmography ==

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