Nina Arianda

Nina Arianda Biography

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. In 2016, she began starring in Amazon Studios' legal series Goliath.

Early life and education

Arianda was born in Manhattan, New York City. Her parents were born in Germany to Ukrainian families. She grew up in Clifton, New Jersey and Heidelberg, Germany. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program in 2009.

Career

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 Broadway, the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, in early November 2011, and her performance received critical acclaim.

In 2014, she starred in the Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Tales From Red Vienna. She has appeared in several films, including Win Win, Tower Heist, Midnight in Paris, Rob the Mob, and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby. In January 2015, she was cast as Molly, the wife of Will Graham (played by her former Broadway co-star Hugh Dancy) for the third season of Hannibal. Arianda starred in Fool for Love at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in July 2014, with Sam Rockwell and direction by Daniel Aukin. Arianda and Rockwell reprised their roles on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in 2015. In 2016, she played Agnes Stark in the film Florence Foster Jenkins. Also in 2016, Arianda co-starred in the Amazon Studios legal series Goliath.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	Win Win	Shelly
2011	Higher Ground	Wendy Walker
2011	Midnight in Paris	Carol Bates
2011	Tower Heist	Miss Iovenko
2013	Lucky Them	Dana
2013	The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby	Alexis
2014	Rob the Mob	Rosemarie Uva
2014	The Humbling	Sybil Van Buren
2016	Florence Foster Jenkins	Agnes Stark
2017	Never Here	Margeret Lockwood
2018	Stan and Ollie	Ida Kitaeva Laurel	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	The Good Wife	Gretchen Battista	Episode: "Get a Room"
2012	30 Rock	Zarina Sbarro	Episode: "Stride of Pride"
2013	Hostages	Lauren	Episode: "Sister's Keeper"
2015	Hannibal	Molly Graham	4 episodes
2015	Master of None	Alice	Episode: "Hot Ticket"
2016	Horace and Pete	Maggie	Episode #1.4
2016	Crisis in Six Scenes	Lorna	Episode #1.5
2016-present	Goliath	Patty Solis-Papagian	16 episodes

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	Venus in Fur	Vanda Jourdain	Classic Stage Company, Off-Broadway
2011	Born Yesterday	Emma "Billie" Dawn	Cort Theatre, Broadway
2011-12	Venus in Fur	Vanda Jourdain	Lyceum Theatre, Broadway
2014	Tales from Red Vienna	Helna Altman	Manhattan Theatre Club, Off-Broadway
2015	Fool for Love	May	Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Broadway

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Work
2010	Theatre World Award	Venus in Fur
	Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play
	Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
	Clarence Derwent Award for Most Promising Female
2011	Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play	Born Yesterday
	Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance
	Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
	Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
2012	Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play	Venus in Fur

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