Sofia Vladimirovna Vassilieva (born October 22, 1992) is an American actress. Notable roles include portraying the children’s book character Eloise in Eloise at the Plaza and Eloise at Christmastime, Ariel DuBois in the Emmy-winning TV series Medium, and teenage cancer patient Kate Fitzgerald in the 2009 film adaptation of My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult.
Is Sofia Vassilieva Romanian?
Vassilieva was born on October 22, 1992, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in Hennepin County Medical Center, the only child of Russian immigrants. She attended and graduated from Barbizon Modeling and Acting School in Arizona.
Does Sofia Vassilieva speak Russian?
When she was 3, she started speaking French and reading in Russian and English, being fluent in these three languages, she now enjoys studying Spanish and American Sign Language. As of 2015 speaks and writes about seven- eight languages.
Sofia plays Lara, a character that just like Sofia, comes from an immigrant family that feels the “honor and responsibility” towards who came before to allow them to have the life they have now.