Natasha Alam

Natasha Alam (Russian: Наталья Анатольевна Шиманчук; born Natalia Anatolievna Shimanchuk, born March 10, 1983) Alam has starred on True Blood and been a cover model for Maxim and Playboy.

Early life Natasha Alam was born and raised in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union in a Russian family. She attended the Tashkent State Technical University for aviation school. Modeling at school led to modeling at events and eventually moving to Moscow, where she signed with an agency. An Italian modeling agency later signed her, and she moved to Italy.

In 2010, she appeared in the third season of True Blood as Yvetta, an exotic dancer at Fangtasia, from Estonia. In July of that year, she appeared on the cover, and in the pictorial, of Playboy. The following year, she shot an anti-bullying film with Joe Reitman, and that August. 27 took part in Rock the Mansion, a fashion show for an anti-bullying campaign, at the Playboy Mansion.

Personal life Sometime after moving to Italy, Alam met Iranian prince Amir Ebrahim Pahlavi Alam and moved with him to New York City. The couple broke up, then reunited, married in 1998, and moved to London, where she began taking acting lessons. Alam said in 2001 that she then "ran away to Los Angeles because I wanted to act." In 2001, her husband joined her, but they divorced in 2004. She and her partner, Joe Campana had a daughter, Valentina, in 2009.

Filmography

Film Film Year Film Role Notes 2006 Spy Games: The Black Wolf Hunt Tanya TV movie(Russian) 2006 Shadow Puppets Amber 2008 In Twilight's Shadow Carlisle Short 2008 The Women Natasha 2009 War Wolves Erika Moore 2009 No Cell Phones Allowed Julia Short 2010 The Black Belle Belle Gunness 2010 Bring Me the Head of Lance Henriksen Natasha 2011 Guy Suave: Homicidal Spy Wetsy Swolleninski TV movie 2013 Huff Laci 2014 Dead Sea Skipper 2015 An Act of War Ivana 2015 Risk for Honor 2016 The Code of Cain Sara Ogden 2016 Bunker: Project 12 Irina 2018 Beverly Hills Bandits Francine Reed 2020 Aladdin Karma upcoming The Pharm Nikita post-production upcoming Social Distancing Natalie Rose pre-production

TV Series TV series Year TV Series Role Notes 2002 Fastlane Katiya Federov Season 1 Episode 3: "Gone Native" 2003 Just Shoot Me! Hellena Season 7 Episode 22: "Evaluate This!" 2004-2007 The Bold and the Beautiful Ava Recurring 2005 CSI Svetlana Melton Season 5 Episode 13: "Nesting Dolls" 2005 NYPD Blue Elena Season 12 Episode 19: "Bale to the Chief" 2005 Less than Perfect Daniella Season 3 Episode 19: "Claude's Extreme Makeover" 2005 Wanted Inez Season 1 Episode 2: "The Wild Bunch" 2006 Nip/Tuck Analise Season 4 Episode 4: "Shari Noble" 2007 The Unit Russian Girl Season 2 Episode 21: "Bedfellows" 2007 Entourage Anika Season 4 Episode 4: "Sorry, Harvey" 2007 American Heiress Drunk girl Recurring 2008 My Own Worst Enemy Stewardess Season 1 Episode 5: "The Night Train to Moscow" 2010 Important Things with Demetri Martin Natasha Recurring 2010 True Blood Yvetta Recurring 2012 Resident Evil 6 Helena Harper (facial model) 2013 Body of Proof Tatyana Season 3 Episode 6: "Fallen Angel" 2013 NCIS: Los Angeles Veronica Pisconov Recurring 2016 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Tatiana Season 11 Episode 3: "The Gang Hits the Slopes"